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Student Highlights of Awards and Achievements | M.D./Ph.D. Program| UC Davis School of Medicine

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M.D./Ph.D. Program

M.D./Ph.D. Student Highlights

Explore the awards, fellowships, and scholarships earned by our students during their training at UC Davis School of Medicine. Their accomplishments reflect excellence in research and scholarship.

Student Awards and Recognition
  • Joseph Morrison, center, with other MD/PhD students in 2024 cohort

    Joe Morrison – Medical Student Year 2

    MedStudentsServe Award (PI) — Physicians for a Healthy California

  • Jonathon Mo, poster day award recipient

    Jonathan Mo – Ph.D. Year 1

    1st Place Poster Award, Clinical Research — UC Davis Medical Student Research Day (2024)

  • Ankita Singh – Ph.D. Year 2

    • Floyd and Mary Schwall Fellowship in Medical Research
    • Lurie Graduate Student Award
  • Kelly Weldon – Ph.D. Year 2

  • Mai Abdusamad – Ph.D. Year 3

    • NIH T32 Fellowship — Cell and Molecular Biology
    • Travel Award — American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting (2023)
  • Jessica Tang, MD/PhD student and Medical Research Scholars Program NIH scholar

    Jessica Tang – Ph.D. Year 3

  • Ariana Moghbel – Ph.D. Year 4

    • NSF Neuroengineering Fellowship (NeuralStorm)
    • Thomas Depner Award for Excellence in Nephrology
    • Best Oral Presentation — Neuroengineering and Medicine Symposium
    • Schwall Fellowship for Medically Related Research
  • MD/PhD student Mohammad Pourhosseinzadeh on poster day

    Mohammad Pourhosseinzadeh – Ph.D. Year 4

    • NIH T32 Fellowship — Molecular Biology
    • NIH F30 Fellowship (NIDDK)
    • Diabetes Research Connection Award
    • Thomas Depner Award for Excellence in Nephrology
    • Letters of Distinction — Neuroanatomy and General Pathology 

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Where Are They Now?

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