Three winners and six finalists of the 2015 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists have been announced. The awards were created in 2007 and honor postdoctoral scientists from institutions across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Winners are awarded $30,000 each and finalists are awarded $10,000 each in unrestricted funds.
2015 Blavatnik Regional Awards Winners
Life Sciences Hani Goodarzi, The Rockefeller University
Chemistry Arash Nikoubashman, Princeton University
(Now at the University of Mainz)
Physical Sciences&Engineering Nicolás Young, Columbia University
2015 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalists
Life Sciences Allyson Friedman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
(Now at Hunter College, City University of New York)
Ziv Shulman, The Rockefeller University
(Now at the Weizmann Institute of Science)
Chemistry Xiang Gao, Yale University
Jinzhong Lin, Yale University
Physical Sciences & Engineering Yang Liu, Princeton University (Now at Stanford University)
Dennis Perepelitsa, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Winners and finalists will be honored at New York Academy of Sciences 12th annual Gala held at the Conrad Hotel in New York on November 9th, 2015.
