Past NIAID T35 Trainees

Program Overview

105 trainees contributed to a total of 36 publications

Christy Lee (2022 trainee) won the NSRF Best Oral Presentation Award in Translational Research for her summer research on SARS-CoV-2 vaccine study.

Christy Lee (2022 trainee) won the NSRF Best Oral Presentation Award in Translational Research for her summer research on SARS-CoV-2 vaccine study.

2021 T35 trainee group picture (left to right): Hannah Lu, George Ishac, Zachary Chroust, Jordan Norman, Ryan Shepherd, Pamela Horton, Emilio Cavazos-Escobar. Not pictured: Basel Hamwi

Jayson Vargas (2022 trainee)

2022 T35 trainee weekly training meeting via zoom (Top panel left to right: Dr. Tian Wang, Bryan Pearson, Jessica Ngo, Mingru Liu). Other attending trainees: Christy Lee, Jacob Alaniz, Jayson Vargas, Deena Ismail, Mithil Shah, David Parkhurst.

Tyler Brehm and his mentor, Dr. Lynn Soong, at the 2017 Vaccine Conference in San Antonio, TX

Paulette Pham and her mentor, Dr. Jianli Dong, at the 2015 MSSRP poster session

Joon Yong Moon (2017 trainee)

August Schaeffer (2017 trainee)

Megan Swonke (2016 trainee)

Amir Ali (2016 trainee)

Paymon Mosavi (2016 trainee)

Ryan Lawrence (2016 trainee)

2015 trainees at the MSSRP poster session

NIAID Trainee Weekly Meeting (2017)

2018 NIAID T35 Trainees

Front row, from left: Lynn Soong, MD, PhD (NIAID T35 director), Marisol Esqueda, Amulya Sajja, Karen Zhang, Shelby Luikart, Jerome Escano. Second row, from left: Rahul Shah, Micah Kerney, Bradley Dye, Devon Raja, Tamer Ghanayem, Cody Teleki, Scott Weaver, MS, PhD (Chair, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology)

2016 UTMB SOM Commencement (NIAID 2013 Trainees)

From left: Jaye A. Weston, Christopher Do, Zakari Kwota, Huijian Sun, Lynn Soong, MD, PhD (NIAID T35 director), Abigail Watts, Stephanie Opusunju, and Claire Drom

2016 Trainees in NIAID and TMGH Programs

2016 NIAID and TMGH Trainees at Weekly Meetings

From left: Drs. Jing Meng and Chunfang Liu from the Tropical Medicine & Global Health course, Ardalan Sharifi, Dr. Lynn Soong (NIAID T35 director), Ryan Lawrence, Marysuna Wilkerson, Brandon Hood, Dr. Michael Laposata (Chair of Dept. of Pathology), Harica Kodakandla, Paymon Mosavi, Minh Thu Nguyen, Amir Ali, and Stephanie Ibrahim. Not shown: Megan Swonke

2015 Trainees in NIAID and TMGH Programs

Front row: Dr. Min Zhang, Dr. Lynn Soong, Erin Dinehart, Paulette Pham, Regina Tirbeni, Dr. Lei He. Back row: Denley Yuan, Eduardo Rodriguez, Karl Hesson, Christopher Wright, Logan Grimes. (Drs. Zhang and He from the Tropical Medicine & Global Health course)