Congratulations Simpson Lab Fellowship Award Recipients

Please join us in congratulating Jessica Ayers and Karina Schmidt, two exceptional PhD students from the laboratory of Cory Simpson, MD, PhD, who have recently accepted fellowship awards! 

Jessica Ayers, a third-year PhD student in the Molecular Medicine and Mechanisms of Disease (M3D) program at the UW School of Medicine, has been selected for the NIH-funded ITHS TL1 Translational Research Training Program.

The ITHS TL1 program is a one-year mentored research training program in translational science for predoctoral students. This program creates a cross-disciplinary community of emerging researchers and provides them with specific training, career development opportunities, and team science skills to help them function effectively within translational science teams.

Karina Schmidt, a second-year PhD student in the M3D program, has been selected for a one-year, Washington state-funded fellowship from the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM). 

The ISCRM Fellows program provides opportunities for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in stem cell and regenerative medicine and technologies to train under the guidance and mentorship of ISCRM faculty. 

Congratulations to Jessica and Karina on being awarded these prestigious fellowships!