Fellowship Recipients
The Graduate Student Fellowship Program supports Notre Dame PhD students with a specific interest in global health whose research addresses questions that impact global health.
| Year Awarded | Award Recipient | Faculty Advisor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Emily Selland | Jason Rohr | Rice-fish co-culturing to mitigate a schistosomiasis occupational hazard for rice farmers in the Senegal River Basin, Senegal |
| 2025 | John Kane | Michael Ferdig | Uncovering mechanisms responsible for biphasic survival phenotype in piperaquine resistant Plasmodium falciparum |
| 2025 | Jingdong Yang | Shahriar Mobashery and Mayland Chang | Novel Spore Germination Inhibitors to Combat Clostridioides difficile, a Major Global Health Threat |
| 2025 | Prakash BK | Aidan Seale-Feldman | Caste and Mental Health: Navigating Dalits’ Suffering and Healing in a Psychiatric Hospital in Nepal |
| 2023 | Alyssa La Bella | Ana Lidia Flores-Mireles | Dissecting the Efg1 Virulence Network of Candida albicans in the Catheterized Bladder |
| 2023 | Elizabeth Lau | Joyce Adams and Bernard Nahlen | Validation of a Clinical Screening Tool for Postpartum Depression in Rural United States |
| 2023 | Bradley Jones | Patty Champion | Defining the Roles of Lysine Acetyltransferases MMAR_3740 and MMAR_3692 in Mycobacterial Pathogenesis |
| 2023 | Alexis Waldschmidt | Joseph E. O’Tousa | The Multiple Disease-Vectoring Roles of NORPA β-Class Phospholipase C Signaling in Aedes Mosquitoes |
| 2022 | Christopher Winski | Felipe Santiago-Tirado | Characterization of an atypical ABC transporter involved in antifungal resistance and host interactions in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans |
| 2022 (fall semester) | Homero Dominguez | Shahriar Mobashery | Penicilin-Binding protein 2x as a target in allosteric inhibition by antibiotics |
| 2022 | Mackenzie Sievert | Michael Ferdig | Mapping determinants of drug resistance in malaria parasites |
| 2022 | Quan Tran | Alex Perkins | Rethinking and improving models used to estimate the global disease burden of Yellow fever |
| 2021 | Jessica Carney | Laura Miller-Graff | Improving access to maternal mental health care within and across cultural contexts |
| 2021 | Aurel Holzschuh | Cristian Koepfli | Understanding residual Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Zanzibar through genomics |
| 2021 | Maisha Nima | Michael Ferdig and Angana Mukherjee | Malarial emergence of resistance to frontline artemisinin drugs in Bangladesh |
| 2021 | Iker Soto Santarriaga | Patricia Clark | Characterizing the folding mechanism of the autotransporter virulence factor pertactin |
| 2021 | Lindsay Serene | Jeff Schorey | Deciphering SecA2-dependent RNA export in pathogenic mycobacteria |
| 2020 | Katherine Crank | Kyle Bibby | From theory to practice: expanding the quantitative microbial risk assessment framework research progress |
| 2020 | Kathleen Nicholson | Patricia Champion | Characterizing a putative secreted transporter component in the ESX-1 secretion system of Mycobacterium marinum |
| 2020 | Yuanyuan Qian | Shahriar Mobashery | Elucidation of mechanism of action for novel anti-clostridioides difficile antibacterial |
| 2020 | Sana Saiyed | Lee Gettler | Combining cultural perspectives, behavioral ecology, and stress physiology for a more holistic understanding of human-monkey interactions and health in India |