Fred Hutch announces 2021 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients
Thirteen graduate students selected for prestigious honor in biological sciences
Photos of award recipients
Jeremy Mseitif
SEATTLE —March 1, 2021 — Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the 2021 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences. The 13 award recipients were selected for the quality, originality and significance of their work, representing a diverse range of research topics.
Nominations for this prestigious annual award are solicited internationally. This year’s awardees come from across the U.S. — from the University of California, Los Angeles to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to Harvard University — and three international recipients from the University of Basel, Switzerland, the University of St. Andrews, UK, and the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria. The awardees study a range of biological topics including adoptive immune cell transfer, gene expression regulation, inter-brain neural dynamics and tumor cell interactions that increase cancer spread.