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The UAB Civitan International Research Center’s Emerging Scholar Award provides research funding for clinical or basic science research related to brain development for trainees at the graduate student and postdoctoral fellow levels.

Proposals for the Emerging Scholars program are requested from across the UAB campus for clinical or basic science research projects aimed at enhancing our current understanding of normal and abnormal brain development, cognition, autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, and mental retardation, or the effects of exposure to environmental toxins on the development of the brain.

2024-2025 Awardees 

Andrew T. Hale, M.D., Ph.D.

Andrew T. Hale, M.D., Ph.D.

Neurological Surgery Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
Muthukumar Karuppasamy, Ph.D.

Muthukumar Karuppasamy, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexander Neuromuscular Disease Research Lab
Department of Pediatrics

 

Past Awardees 

  • 2023-2022

    Kasey Brida
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics

    Anna Schreiber, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurobiology

  • 2021-2022

    Rudhab Bahabry, Bachelor of Medicine
    Fellow
    Department of Neurobiology

    Andrea Reid, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Division of Pediatric Neurology

  • 2020-2021

    Norimichi Ito, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Psychiatry
    Behavioral Neurobiology

    Reagan Pennock, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Austin Svancara, M.A.
    Graduate Student
    Developmental Psychology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 2019-2020

    Nicholas Boyle
    MSTP Graduate Student
    Department of Neurology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Qiangqiang Xia, Ph.D.
    Post Doc
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Helen Root
    Trainee
    Medical/Clinical Psychology Program

  • 2018-2019

    Abbey Herringshaw - Whit Mallory Award
    Graduate Student
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Silvienne Stint Jago
    Graduate Student
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Heather Dark
    Graduate Student
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 2017-2018

    Nancy Gallus, B.S. - Whit Mallory Award Neuroscience
    Graduate Student
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Mary Phillips, B.S.
    Neuroscience Graduate Student
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Rylie Hightower, B.S.N., R.N.
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Department of Pediatrics

    Jose Maximo, M.A.
    Graduate Student
    Department of Psychology

  • 2016-2017

    Melissa Thye - Whit Mallory Fellow
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Department of Psychology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Julia Beattie
    Graduate Trainee
    Department of Psychology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Megan Rich
    Pre-doctoral Neuroscience
    Department of Radiology and Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Hai Vo
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 2015-2016

    Jada Hallengren, Ph.D. - Whit Mallory Fellow
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama of Birmingham

    Jessica Nichols
    Graduate Student Trainee
    University of Alabama of Birmingham

    Svitlana Bach, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama of Birmingham

    Jenna Lebersfeld
    Graduate Student Trainee
    University of Alabama of Birmingham

  • 2014-2015

    Haley Johnson - Whit Mallory Fellow
    Graduate Trainee
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Andrew Arrant, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Trainee
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Vladimir Grubisic, M.D., Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department Neurobiology
    Michigan State University

    Natasha Pacheco
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 2013-2014

    Sarah Gillot - Whit Mallory Fellow

    Andrew Kennedy, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Neurobiology
    Bates College

    Latoya Paul, Ph.D.
    Instructor
    Louisiana State University

    Yanjie Li, Ph.D.
    Research Associate
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 2012-2013

    Elena Adlaf, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Department of Neurobiology
    Duke University

    Vishnu Cuddapah, M.D.
    Pediatrician
    Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology
    Childrens Hospital
    Philadelphia, PA

    Adam Funk, M.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    University of Cincinnati

    Meredith Reid

  • 2011-2012

    Aundrea Bartley, Ph.D.
    Research Associate
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Aimee Franklin, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Cell Developmental and Integrative Biology
    Southeastern University

    Lauren Libero, Ph.D.
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute

    Stefanie Robel, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Neurobiology
    Virginia Tech

  • 2010-2011

    Asher Albertson, M.D., Ph.D.
    Neurologist
    Department of Neurobiology
    St. Louis, MO

    Brandi Baker, M.D.

    Wei Li, Ph.D.
    Instructor
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Donna Murdaugh, Ph.D.
    Research Assistant
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 2009-2010

    Kelly Dunham

    Johanna Gandy, Ph.D.
    Regulatory Affairs Specialist
    Sarah Cannon Research Institute

    Mark Pennick, Ph.D.

    Ryan Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.

  • 2008-2009

    Gaston Calfa, Ph.D.
    Instructor
    Department of Neurobiology
    Universidad National de Cordoba, Argentina

    Nolan Jean Ernest, M.D., Ph.D.
    Pediatrician
    Dothan Pediatric Clinic

    Elizabeth Lucas, Ph.D.
    Department of Psychiatry
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Tania Roth, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Department of Neurobiology
    University of Delaware

  • 2007-2008

    Stephen Crimmins, Ph.D.
    Chief
    Department of Neurobiology
    Bench Laboratory
    William Beaumont Army Medical Center

    Chuansheng Zhao, M.D., Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Department of Neurobiology
    The First Hospital of China Medical University
    Shenyang, Liaoning, China

    Cryshelle Patterson, Ph.D.

    Chris Uskaitis M.D., Ph.D.
    Fellow
    Boston Children’s Hospital

  • 2006-2007

    Courtney Miller, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Department of Neurobiology
    The Scripps Research Ins

    Lars Kristiansen, Ph.D.

  • 2005-2006

    Maria Hopkins, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Psychology, CAS
    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Jennifer Larimore
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Neurobiology
    Agnes Scott College

    Ken C. Walls

    Hua Yu Sun