• K99/R00 Award, NEI, 2023-2025
• Paper published, “Inhibition, but not excitation, recovers from partial cone loss with greater spatiotemporal integration, synapse density, and frequency”
• Paper published, “Impact of Photoreceptor Loss on Retinal Circuitry”
• ARVO travel award, 2019
• That Man May See Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019
 

Dunn Lab
 
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• The Innovative Genomics Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCSF and Berkeley, 2019
 

Duan Lab
 
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• UCSF Ophthalmology Research Day – 1st Prize in Trainee Presentations, 2023
• BrightFocus Foundation Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program, 2021-2023
• Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship, 2021-2022
 

Gould Lab
 
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• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars, 2024
• The Larry L. Hillblom Foundation Fellowship Grant, 2022
• PBBR Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research – Postdoctoral Independent Research Grant, 2022
 

Chan Lab
 
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• Paper published, “Elevated TGFβ signaling contributes to cerebral small vessel disease in mouse models of Gould syndrome”
• F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, 2018-2019
 
Gould Lab
 
Current position: Chief Strategist, Bakar Aging Research Institute (BARI), UCSF

• Paper published, “Mature Retina Compensates Functionally for Partial Loss of Rod Photoreceptors”
• UCSF David and Joyce Copenhagen Award, 2020
• Paper published, “Partial Cone Loss Triggers Synapse-Specific Remodeling and Spatial Receptive Field Rearrangements in a Mature Retinal Circuit”
• F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, 2018-2019
 
Dunn Lab

• Knights Templar Eye Foundation grant for Ocular Anterior Segment Dysgenesis, 2022-2023
• All May See Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-2022
 
Gould Lab
 
Current position: Senior Postdoctoral Scientist, Institute of Diabetes & Regeneration Research, Helmholtz Diabetes Center

• F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, 2018-2019
• American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2017-2018
 
Gould Lab
 
Current position: In Vivo Scientist at Neuron23

• Paper published, “Retinal Organoids: A Human Model System for Development, Diseases, and Therapies”
• Emerging Vision Scientist Award by National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) /Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (AEVR), 2023
• UCSF – Science and Health Education Partnership (SEP) – Alumni Spotlight, 2023
• Paper published, “Disease modeling and pharmacological rescue of autosomal dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa associated with RHO copy number variation”
• All May See Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023
• Travel Award to attend Tree Shrew Discovery 2023 Meeting
• Bright Focus Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (Macular Degeneration Research Program), 2023-2025
• Paper published, “Characterization of Retinal Development in 13-Lined Ground Squirrels”
• UCSF-Postdoc Slam – People’s choice winner award, 2022
• UCSF Ophthalmology Research Day – 1st Prize in Trainee Presentations, 2022
• Travel Award to attend ARVO 2022 Meeting (Retina Research Foundation/Joseph M. and Eula C. Lawrence Travel Grant)
• Travel Award to attend XIXth International Symposium on Retinal Degenerations (RD2021) and the BrightFocus Macular Fast Track
• Travel Award to attend ARVO 2021 Meeting (American Macular Degeneration Foundation Travel Grant)
 

Lamba Lab
 
Current position: Bright Focus Foundation-Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Blackshaw’s Lab, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

• Marcus Innovative Award in Precision Medicine, UCSF, 2020
 
Duan Lab, Han Lab
 
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University

• Knight Templar Eye Foundation Grant, 2020-2022
 
Nair Lab
 
Current position: Research Specialist, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

• That All May See Postdoctoral Fellowship
 
Kim Lab
 
Current position: Machine Learning Engineer, Amazon

• ARVO travel award, 2020
• Gordon Research Conference (Cornea) – abstract selected for a talk presentation, 2018
 
Chan Lab
 
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, UCSF

• Knight Templar Eye Foundation Grant, 2018
 
Nair Lab

• UCSF Ophthalmology Research Day best poster award
• Paper published, “Optineurin tunes outside-in signaling to regulate lysosome biogenesis and phagocytic clearance in the retina”
• Paper published, “Analysis of mitochondrial dynamics and function in the retinal pigment epithelium by high-speed high-resolution live imaging”
• All May See Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021
• Paper published, “Complement activation, lipid metabolism, and mitochondrial injury: Converging pathways in age-related macular degeneration”
• Copenhagen Award for Best Paper in Vision Research, 2019
• Paper published, “Aberrant early endosome biogenesis mediates complement activation in the retinal pigment epithelium in models of macular degeneration”
 

Lakkaraju Lab