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
Eway Cai
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Xiuyuan Cheng
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Jason Hu
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Dorra Jedoui
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Juliana Lee
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California San Diego
Wanning Cui
Department: Biological Sciences
Deborah Kutner
Department: Biological Sciences
Shuozhi Liu
Department: Biological Sciences
Weronika Matysik
Department: Biological Sciences
SungWoo Park
Department: Biological Sciences
Abhinaya Pathak
Department: Ecology, Behavior and Evolution
University of California San Francisco
Brenda Ametepe
Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley
Haoyu Fan
Department: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Tayma Handal
Department: Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Nikhita Kirthivasan
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Chloe Kong
Department: Bioengineering, joint with UC Berkeley
Chang Liu
Department: Tetrad
University of Colorado Boulder
Oscar Cordova
Department: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Sofi Leon Gonzalez
Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Norah Nyangau
Department: Integrative Physiology
Coralie Phanord
Department: Psychology and Neuroscience
Negar Rahimi
Department: Physiology
Sen Wang
Department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
University of Utah
Tara Buzinski
Department: Biological Chemistry
Nicole Lacey
Department: Mathematics
Hannah Meier
Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Laurence Saint Pierre
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Brooklyn Vargas
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Chuang Zhang
Department: Molecular Pharmaceutics
University of Washington
Richmond Kwane Boateng
Department: Biochemistry
Sophia Chioma Chima
Department: Global Health
Yufei Gao
Department: Bioengineering
Zeidy Garcia
Department: Microbiology
Olivia Waltner
Department: Genome Sciences
Ruowei Zhu
Department: Laboratory Medicine and Pathology