Invited Institutions
The list of invited institutions is composed of approximately 300 US-based institutions. They include degree-granting universities, private research institutes, academic medical centers, and national government laboratories. Each institution may submit up to three nominations per year, one for each of the three disciplinary categories.
If your institution is not listed and would like to nominate, please send a brief statement of interest to BlavatnikAwards@nyas.org
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Alabama
- Auburn University
Institutional Contact: Steve Taylor - University of Alabama
Institutional Contact: Jennifer Camp - University of Alabama, Birmingham
Institutional Contact: Frannie Horn - University of Alabama, Huntsville
Institutional Contact: David Puleo - University of South Alabama
Institutional Contact: Jo Bonner
Alaska
- University of Alaska, Anchorage
Institutional Contact: Denise Runge - University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Institutional Contact: Anupma Prakash - University of Alaska, Southeast
Institutional Contact: Carin Denise Silkaitis
Arizona
- Arizona State University
Institutional Contact: Patricia Friedrich - Northern Arizona University
Institutional Contact: Andrew Koppisch - University of Arizona
Institutional Contact: Ronald Marx
Arkansas
- University of Arkansas
Institutional Contact: Charles F. Robinson
California
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Institutional Contact: Gordon Lithgow - California Institute of Technology
Institutional Contact: Lauren Limbert - Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Institutional Contact: David Carlisle - City of Hope National Medical Center
Institutional Contact: Steven Rosen - Claremont Graduate University
Institutional Contact: Michelle Bligh - Gladstone Institutes
Institutional Contact: Deepak Srivastava - La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
Institutional Contact: Shane Crotty - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Carol Burns - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Rebecca Nikolic - Loma Linda University
Institutional Contact: Ronald L. Carter - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Institutional Contact: Christopher Scholin - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Institutional Contact: Tom Brazda - San Diego State University
Institutional Contact: Adela de la Torre - Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Institutional Contact: Amy Peake - Scripps Research Institute
Institutional Contact: Benjamin Cravatt - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Charlotte Chang - Stanford Research Institute International
Institutional Contact: Kathlynn Brown - Stanford University
Institutional Contact: Jessica Boydston - University of California, Berkeley
Institutional Contact: Tanya Volkert and Limited Submissions - University of California, Davis
Institutional Contact: Gloria Hayes - University of California, Irvine
Institutional Contact: Michael A. Gallo, Jr. - University of California, Los Angeles
Institutional Contact: Cynthia Gonzalez-Saylor - University of California, Merced
Institutional Contact: Juan Sánchez Muñoz - University of California, Riverside
Institutional Contact: Kim A. Wilcox - University of California, San Diego
Institutional Contact: UCSD Limited Submissions Office, Leila Adler - University of California, San Francisco
Institutional Contact: Melanie Dernyck - University of California, Santa Barbara
Institutional Contact: Lynn McLaughlin-Hill - University of California, Santa Cruz
Institutional Contact: Caroline Rodriguez - University of Southern California
Institutional Contact: Michael Yarksy
Colorado
- Colorado School of Mines
Institutional Contact: Zach Lynott - Colorado State University
Institutional Contact: Dinaida Egan - National Jewish Health
Institutional Contact: Gregory P. Downey - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Peter F. Green - University of Colorado
Institutional Contact: Todd Saliman - University of Colorado, Boulder
Institutional Contact: Joan Eaton - University of Colorado, Denver
Institutional Contact: Michelle Marks - University of Denver
Institutional Contact: Corinne Lengsfeld - US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Institutional Contact: Richard Barhydt
Connecticut
- Trinity College
Institutional Contact: Sonia Cardenas - University of Connecticut
Institutional Contact: Anne D'Alleva - Yale University
Institutional Contact: Michael Crair
Delaware
- University of Delaware
Institutional Contact: Scott Mangieri
District of Columbia
- Carnegie Institution for Science
Institutional Contact: Kristen Palumbo - Catholic University of America
Institutional Contact: Peter K. Kilpatrick - Children's National Medical Center
Institutional Contact: Nathan Kupperman - George Washington University
Institutional Contact: Susan Boerstling - Georgetown University
Institutional Contact: Jeffrey Urbach - Howard University
Institutional Contact: Anthony K. Wutoh - Smithsonian Institution
Institutional Contact: Amy Marino - University of the District of Columbia
Institutional Contact: Victor R. McCrary, Jr.
Florida
- Florida Atlantic University
Institutional Contact: Russel Ivy - Florida International University
Institutional Contact: Kenneth Jessell - Florida State University
Institutional Contact: Carolyn Bradley - Max Planck Institute
Institutional Contact: David Fitzpatrick - Moffitt Cancer Center
Institutional Contact: Brian C. Springer - Nova Southeastern University
Institutional Contact: George L. Hanbury - University of Central Florida
Institutional Contact: Michael D. Johnson - University of Florida
Institutional Contact: Program Development - University of Miami
Institutional Contact: Tiffany Plantan - University of South Florida, Tampa
Institutional Contact: Sylvia W. Thomas
Georgia
- Augusta University
Institutional Contact: Russel T. Keen - Emory University
Institutional Contact: Nicole Dancz-Bal - Georgia Institute of Technology
Institutional Contact: Michelle Rinehart - Georgia State University
Institutional Contact: Corrie Fountain - Mercer University
Institutional Contact: William Underwood - University of Georgia
Institutional Contact: Rachel Ankirskiy
Hawai'i
- University of Hawai'i at Hilo
Institutional Contact: Joy Ma - University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Institutional Contact: Robert Bley-Vroman
Idaho
- Idaho National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Shantay Ames - Idaho State University
Institutional Contact: Adam Bradford - University of Idaho
Institutional Contact: Limited Submission Team
Illinois
- Argonne National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Matthew Tirrell - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Lia Merminga - Illinois Institute of Technology
Institutional Contact: Kenneth T. Christensen - Loyola University Chicago
Institutional Contact: Mark C. Reed - Midwestern University
Institutional Contact: James Woods - Northern Illinois University
Institutional Contact: Lisa C. Freeman - Northwestern University
Institutional Contact: Christopher Schuh - Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Institutional Contact: Judy Potashkin - Rush University
Institutional Contact: Christine M. Kennedy - Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Institutional Contact: Costas Tsatsoulis - University of Chicago
Institutional Contact: Jonathan Trotter - University of Illinois at Chicago
Institutional Contact: Sarah O'Brien - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Institutional Contact: Melissa Chan
Indiana
- Ball State University
Institutional Contact: Jacqueline Davis - Indiana University
Institutional Contact: Amjad Alrehaili - Purdue University
Institutional Contact: John Grundy - University of Notre Dame
Institutional Contact: Thomas Scrace
Iowa
- Ames Laboratory
Institutional Contact: James Morris - Iowa State University
Institutional Contact: Jason Keith - University of Iowa
Institutional Contact: Barbara J. Wilson
Kansas
- Kansas State University
Institutional Contact: Jesse Perez Mendez - University of Kansas
Institutional Contact: Alicia Reed - Wichita State University
Institutional Contact: Shirley Lefever
Kentucky
- University of Kentucky
Institutional Contact: Kathy Grzech - University of Louisville
Institutional Contacts: Leigh Botner
Louisiana
- Louisiana State University
Institutional Contact: Kelly Robertson - Louisiana Tech University
Institutional Contact: Donna B. Thomas - Tulane University
Institutional Contact: Michael A. Fitts - University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Institutional Contact: Joseph Savoie - University of New Orleans
Institutional Contact: Kathy E. Johnson
Maine
- Jackson Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Lon Cardon - University of Maine
Institutional Contact: John Volin
Maryland
- J. Craig Venter Institute
Institutional Contact: Sanjay Vashee - Johns Hopkins University
Institutional Contact: Ray Jayawardhana - Morgan State University
Institutional Contact: Willie E. May - National Institutes of Health - Intramural Research Program
Institutional Contact: Nina Schor - National Institute of Standards and Technology
Institutional Contact: Morgan Frycklund - University of Maryland, Baltimore
Institutional Contact: Jill Frankenfield - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Institutional Contact: Don Engel - University of Maryland, College Park
Institutional Contact: Hana Kabashi
Massachusetts
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Institutional Contact: Tanya Santos - Boston Children's Hospital
Institutional Contact: Kevin Churchwell - Boston College
Institutional Contact: David Quigley - Boston University
Institutional Contact: Gloria S. Waters - Brandeis University
Institutional Contact: Carol A. Fierke - Brigham and Women's Hospital
Institutional Contact: Trey Toombs - Clark University
Institutional Contact: Jennifer Hanselman - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Institutional Contact: Myles Brown - Harvard University
Institutional Contact: Liza Harsch - Marine Biological Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Kelly Canesi - Massachusetts General Hospital
Institutional Contact: Robert Kingston - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Institutional Contact: Ian Waitz - Northeastern University
Institutional Contact: Kim Holloway - Tufts University
Institutional Contact: Caroline Attardo Genco - University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Institutional Contact: Michael F. Collins - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Institutional Contact: Marco Cocito-Monoc - University of Massachusetts, Boston
Institutional Contact: Joseph B. Berger - University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Institutional Contact: Julie Chen
Michigan
- Michigan State University
Institutional Contact: Angela K. Wilson - Michigan Technological University
Institutional Contact: Andrew Storer - University of Michigan
Institutional Contact: Santa J. Ono - Van Andel Research Institute
Institutional Contact: Peter A. Jones - Wayne State University
Institutional Contact: Rachel L. Wallace - Western Michigan University
Institutional Contact: Julian Vasquez Heilig
Minnesota
- Mayo Clinic
Institutional Contact: Vijay Shah - University of Minnesota, Duluth
Institutional Contact: Charles Nies - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Institutional Contact: Chris Bremmer
Mississippi
- Jackson State University
Institutional Contact: ConSandra McNeil - Mississippi State University
Institutional Contact: Mark Keenum - University of Mississippi
Institutional Contact: Greg Easson - University of Southern Mississippi
Institutional Contact: Lance Nail
Missouri
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Institutional Contact: James Carrington - Missouri University of Science and Technology
Institutional Contact: Mohammad Dehghani - Saint Louis University
Institutional Contact: Michael Lewis - Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Institutional Contact: Kausik Si - University of Missouri, Columbia
Institutional Contact: Matthew Martens - University of Missouri, Kansas City
Institutional Contact: Alex Holsinger - University of Missouri, Saint Louis
Institutional Contact: Alice Hall - Washington University in St. Louis
Institutional Contact: Mark Lowe
Montana
- Montana State University
Institutional Contact: Waded Cruzado - University of Montana
Institutional Contact: Seth Bodnar
Nebraska
- Creighton University
Institutional Contact: Daniel S. Hendrickson - University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Institutional Contact: Rodney D. Bennett - University of Nebraska, Omaha
Institutional Contact: Sara Myers
Nevada
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Institutional Contact: Keith E. Whitfield - University of Nevada, Reno
Institutional Contact: Aurora Pinkey
New Hampshire
- Dartmouth College
Institutional Contact: Yvonne Devineni - University of New Hampshire
Institutional Contact: Elizabeth S. Chilton
New Jersey
- Institute for Advanced Study
Institutional Contact: David Nirenberg - New Jersey Institute of Technology
Institutional Contact: Atam Dhawan - NOAA Geophysical Dynamics Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Venkatachalam Ramaswamy - Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Jonathan Menard - Princeton University
Institutional Contact: Michael Hodges - Rutgers University
Institutional Contact: Angela Mullis - Rutgers University - Newark
Institutional Contact: Piotr Piotrowiak - Stevens Institute of Technology
Institutional Contact: Nariman Farvardin
New Mexico
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Anita Gallegos - New Mexico State University
Institutional Contact: R.T. James McAteer - Sandia National Laboratories
Institutional Contact: Basil Hassan - University of New Mexico
Institutional Contact: Monica Fishel
New York
- Albany Medical College
Institutional Contact: Paul Feustel - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Institutional Contact: Indranil Basu - American Museum of Natural History
Institutional Contact: John Flynn - Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Institutional Contact: Sylvia Restrepo - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: JoAnne Hewett - Brooklyn College
Institutional Contact: April Bedford - Burke Neurological Institute
Institutional Contact: Rajiv Ratan - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Institutional Contact: Joshua Ginsberg - City College of New York
Institutional Contact: Tony Liss - Clarkson University
Institutional Contact: Christopher Robinson - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Bruce W. Stillman - Columbia University
Institutional Contact: Greg Culler - Cornell University
Institutional Contact: Elizabeth Diaz - The Graduate Center, CUNY
Institutional Contact: Steve Everett - Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Institutional Contact: Limited Submission Office - The Flatiron Institute
Institutional Contact: Molly Lopez - Fordham University
Institutional Contact: Dennis C. Jacobs - Hunter College
Institutional Contact: Nancy Cantor - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Institutional Contact: Dennis Charney - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Institutional Contact: Mercedes Gorre - New York Blood Center
Institutional Contact: Christpher D. Hillyer - New York Medical College
Institutional Contact: Edward Halperin - New York University
Institutional Contact: Farooq Niazi - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Institutional Contact: Sarah Niemann - Rochester Institute of Technology
Institutional Contact: LaVerne
McQuiller Williams - Rockefeller University
Institutional Contact: Frances Yee - Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Institutional Contact: Judith Epstein - SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Institutional Contact: Lindi Quackenbush - SUNY-Downstate Medical Center
Institutional Contact: David Christini - SUNY-State University at Binghamton
Institutional Contact: Harvey Stenger - SUNY-State University at Buffalo
Institutional Contact: Carol O'Connell - SUNY-Stony Brook University
Institutional Contact: Emmy Yan - SUNY-University at Albany
Institutional Contact: Satyendra Kumar - SUNY-Upstate Medical Center
Institutional Contact: David C. Amberg - Syracuse University
Institutional Contact: Duncan Brown - University of Rochester
Institutional Contact: Sarah C. Mangelsdorf - Wadsworth Center
Institutional Contact: Erin Davis - Weill Cornell Medical College
Institutional Contact: Florencia Marcucci
North Carolina
- Duke University
Institutional Contact: Vincent Price - East Carolina University
Institutional Contact: Robin N. Coger - North Carolina A & T State University
Institutional Contact: Tonjia May - North Carolina State University
Institutional Contact: Genevieve Garland - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Institutional Contact: Christopher Clemmens - University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Institutional Contact: Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. - Wake Forest University
Institutional Contact: Susan R. Wente
North Dakota
- North Dakota State University
Institutional Contact: David Bertolini - University of North Dakota
Institutional Contact: Eric C. Link
Ohio
- Bowling Green State University
Institutional Contact: Rodney K. Rogers - Case Western Reserve University
Institutional Contact: J. Michael Oakes - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Institutional Contact: Jamilah Hackworth - Cleveland Clinic
Institutional Contact: Donna Driscoll - Cleveland State University
Institutional Contact: Roman Kondratov - Kent State University
Institutional Contact: Doug Delahanty - Miami University
Institutional Contact: Ruth Groom - Ohio State University
Institutional Contact: Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz - Ohio University
Institutional Contact: Marta Gomez - University of Akron
Institutional Contact: John Wiencek - University of Cincinnati
Institutional Contact: Kristen Oberholzer - University of Dayton
Institutional Contact: Eric F. Spina - University of Toledo
Institutional Contact: Scott Molitor - Wright State University
Institutional Contact: Amy Thompson
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Institutional Contact: Courtney Griffin - Oklahoma State University
Institutional Contact: Kenneth Sewell - Noble Research Institute
Institutional Contact: Carol Smith Drew - University of Oklahoma
Institutional Contact: Ann H. West - University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Institutional Contact: Dawn Hammon
Oregon
- Oregon Health & Science University
Institutional Contact: Peter Barr-Gillespie - Oregon State University
Institutional Contact: Jayathi Y. Murthy - Portland State University
Institutional Contact: Richard Tankersly - University of Oregon
Institutional Contact: Catherine Jarmin Miller
Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University
Institutional Contact: Leah Picker - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Institutional Contact: Kate Maloney-Gross - Drexel University
Institutional Contact: Aleister Saunders - Duquesne University
Institutional Contact: Ken Gormley - Fox Chase Cancer Center
Institutional Contact: Jonathan Chernoff - Lehigh University
Institutional Contact: Anada Jagota - Monell Chemical Senses Center
Institutional Contact: Benjamin P.C. Smith - National Energy Technology Laboratory
Institutional Contact: NETL Awards & Nicole McVey - Pennsylvania State University
Institutional Contact: Jara Dorsey-Lash - Temple University
Institutional Contact: Miguel Mostafá - Thomas Jefferson University
Institutional Contact: Melissa Elgendy - University of Pennsylvania
Institutional Contact: Dawn Bonnell - University of Pittsburgh
Institutional Contact: researchdev@pitt.edu - Ursinus College
Institutional Contact: Will Caverly - Wistar Institute
Institutional Contact: Dario C. Altieri
Puerto Rico
- University of Puerto Rico
Institutional Contact: José Lasalde Dominicci
Rhode Island
- Brown University
Institutional Contact: Margaret Manning - University of Rhode Island
Institutional Contact: Karen Markin
South Carolina
- Clemson University
Institutional Contact: Thomas Kealy - Medical University of South Carolina
Institutional Contact: David J. Cole - Savannah River National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Vahid Majidi - University of South Carolina
Institutional Contact: Jennifer McCormack
South Dakota
- South Dakota State University
Institutional Contact: Jason Zimmerman - University of South Dakota
Institutional Contact: Kurt Hackemer
Tennessee
- Meharry Medical College
Institutional Contact: James E.K. Hildreth - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Moody Altamimi - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Institutional Contact: Saundra Harris - University of Memphis
Institutional Contact: Bill Hardgrave - University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Institutional Contact: Peter Buckley - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Institutional Contact: Hannah Schmidt - Vanderbilt University
Institutional Contact: Padma Raghavan
Texas
- Baylor College of Medicine
Institutional Contact: Sheila Quinn - Baylor University
Institutional Contact: Linda Livingstone - MD Anderson Cancer Center
Institutional Contact: Guilio Draetta - Rice University
Institutional Contact: Devon Jones - Southern Methodist University
Institutional Contact: Brenna Rivas - Texas A & M University
Institutional Contact: Heather C. Lench - Texas A & M AgriLife Research
Institutional Contact: Amir Ibrahim - Texas A & M University Engineering Experiment Station
Institutional Contact: Arul Jayaraman - Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Institutional Contact: Larry Schlesinger - Texas Tech University
Institutional Contact: Stephanie J. Jones - University of Houston
Institutional Contact: Renu Khator - University of North Texas
Institutional Contact: Harrison Keller - University of North Texas Health Science Center
Institutional Contact: Brian Gladue - University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
Institutional Contact: Amy Hazen - University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Institutional Contact: Natalia Glubisz - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Institutional Contact: Daniel K. Podolsky - University of Texas, Arlington
Institutional Contact: Kate Miller - University of Texas, Austin
Institutional Contact: Bob McGarrett - University of Texas, Dallas
Institutional Contact: Inga Musselman - University of Texas, El Paso
Institutional Contact: John Wiebe - University of Texas, San Antonio
Institutional Contact: JoAnn Browning
Utah
- Brigham Young University
Institutional Contact: Kris Nelson - University of Utah
Institutional Contact: Sara Salmon - Utah State University
Institutional Contact: Jeri Hansen
Vermont
- University of Vermont
Institutional Contact: Krista Koeller
Virginia
- College of William and Mary
Institutional Contact: Peggy Agouris - Eastern Virginia Medical School
Institutional Contact: Alfred Abuhamad - George Mason University
Institutional Contact: James Antony - Janelia Farm Research Campus
Institutional Contact: Nelson Spruston - Old Dominion University
Institutional Contact: Yvette Pearson - Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Institutional Contact: David J. Dean - University of Virginia
Institutional Contact: Ian Baucom - Virginia Commonwealth University
Institutional Contact: Archana Pathak - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Institutional Contact: Tim Sands
Washington
- Allen Institute
Institutional Contact: Maria Gonzalez-White - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Institutional Contact: Fred Appelbaum - Institute for Systems Biology
Institutional Contact: Jim Heath - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Institutional Contact: Tony Peurrung - University of Washington
Institutional Contact: Karen Luetjen - Washington State University
Institutional Contact: Douglas Call
West Virginia
- West Virginia University
Institutional Contact: E. Gordon Gee
Wisconsin
- Medical College of Wisconsin
Institutional Contact: John R. Raymond, Sr. - Morgridge Institute for Research
Institutional Contact: Billy Swisher - University of Wisconsin - Madison
Institutional Contact: Cynthia Czajkowski - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Institutional Contact: Anne Kissack
Wyoming
- University of Wyoming
Institutional Contact: Kevin Carman