The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation is pleased to introduce the 2023 Curci Ph.D. Scholars. The Curci Foundation worked with the University of California Berkeley, the University of California San Diego, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Utah, and the University of Washington, each of which selected incoming Ph.D. students in Life Sciences to receive funding to assist with tuition and living expenses.
University of California Berkeley
Simran Bawa
Department: Integrative Biology
Home country: United States
Eway Cai
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: China
Xiuyuan Cheng
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: China
Jason Hu
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Canada
Dorra Jedoui
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Tunisia
Juliana Lee
Home country: Canada
University of California San Diego
Wanning Cui
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: China
Deborah Kutner
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: Brazil
Shuozhi Liu
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: China
Weronika Matysik
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: Poland
SungWoo Park
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: South Korea
Abhinaya Pathak
Department: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution
Home country: Nepal
University of California San Francisco
Brenda Ametepe
Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley
Home country: Togo, West Africa
Haoyu Fan
Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Home country: China
Tayma Handal
Department: Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Home country: Palestine
Nikhita Kirthivasan
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Home country: India
Chloe Kong
Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley
Home country: South Korea
Chang Liu
Department: Tetrad
Home country: China/United States
University of Colorado Boulder
Oscar Cordova
Department: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Home country: Mexico
Sofi Leon Gonzalez
Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Home country: Mexico
Norah Nyangau
Department: Integrative Physiology
Home country: Kenya
Coralie Phanord
Department: Psychology and Neuroscience
Home country: Haiti
Negar Rahimi
Department: Physiology
Home country: Iran
Sen Wang
Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Home country: China
University of Utah
Tara Buzinski
Department: Biological Chemistry
Home country: United States
Nicole Lacey
Department: Mathematics
Home country: United States
Hannah Meier
Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Home country: Germany
Laurence Saint Pierre
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Home country: France
Brooklyn Vargas
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Home country: United States
Chuang Zhang
Department: Molecular Pharmaceutics
Home country: China
University of Washington
Richmond Kwane Boateng
Department: Biochemistry
Home country: Ghana
Sophia Chioma Chima
Department: Global Health
Home county: Nigeria
Yufei Gao
Department: Bioengineering
Home county: China
Zeidy Garcia
Department: Microbiology
Home country: Mexico
Olivia Waltner
Department: Genome Sciences
Home country: United States
Ruowei Zhu
Department: Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Home county: China