The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation is pleased to introduce the 2024 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
Dev Desai
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: India

Mohammad Fazli
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Bahrain
Kensington Hartman
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: United States

Maria Fernanda Henao Echeverri
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: Colombia

Jin Hee Yoo
Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
Home country: United States
University of California San Diego

Sydney Ackermann
Department: Ecology, Behavior & Evolution
Home country: Canada

Sanchaya Sharma
Department: Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution
Home country: India

Lisa Tatsumi
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: Japan

Juan Manuel Tzompantzi De Ita
Department: Biological Sciences
Home country: Mexico

Runqi Zhang
Department: Neurobiology
Home country: China
University of California San Francisco

Yulia Gutierrez
Department: Biophysics
Home country: United States

Elizabeth Hardy
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics
Home country: United States

Wen-Chun Lee
Department: Neuroscience
Home country: Taiwan

Amanda Lipford
Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics
Home country: United States
University of Colorado Boulder

Christina Alamana
Department: Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Home country: Greece

Kati Baeuerle
Department: Biochemistry
Home country: Germany

Tolulope Ajanaku
Department: Integrative Physiology
Home country: Nigeria
Daniel Nwankwo
Department: Biochemistry
Home country: Nigeria

Daisy Powers
Department: Psychology and Neuroscience
Home country: United States

Jing Qian
Department: Integrative Physiology
Home country: China
University of Utah

Osedipo Adegbeyeni
Department: Biology
Home country: Nigeria

Molly Czachor
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Home country: United States
Angel Lerma
Department: Molecular Pharmaceutics
Home country: Mexico

Minh Nguyen
Department: Chemistry
Home country: Vietnam

Charlotte Pohl
Department: Biological Chemistry
Home country: United States

Jessica van Onselen
Department: Population Health Sciences
Home country: South Africa
University of Washington

Rama Dajani
Department: Immunology
Home country: Syria

Mengru Li
Department: Pharmacology
Home county: China

Aya Miyaki
Department: Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Home county: Japan
Fadwa Shagroun
Department: Bioengineering
Home country: Libya

Prerana Shrestha
Department: Pathobiology
Home country: Nepal

Rui Xu
Department: Biochemistry
Home county: China