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Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics<\/td>Anna Bartosik<\/td>Yuh-Hwa Wang<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Biomedical Engineering<\/td>Matthew Hoch<\/td>Richard Price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Biophysics<\/td>Emir Maldosevic<\/td>Ahmad Jomaa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cell Biology<\/td>Shelby Cain<\/td>Karen Hirschi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MCBD\/Experimental Pathology<\/td>Luke Vass<\/td>Thomas Loughran, Todd Fox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microbiology<\/td>Ian Liyayi<\/td>Alison Criss<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Neuroscience<\/td>Josh Samuels<\/td>John Lukens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pharmacology<\/td>Bena Chan<\/td>Ilya Levental<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Physiology<\/td>Rachel DeLancey<\/td>Muge Kuyumcu-Martinez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-student-awards","category-outstanding-award"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"\n2026 Biomedical Sciences (BIMS) Outstanding Graduate Student Awardees - Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bims\/2026-biomedical-sciences-bims-outstanding-graduate-student-awardees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2026 Biomedical Sciences (BIMS) Outstanding Graduate Student Awardees - 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