US National Awards: Eligible Institutions
The nomination period for the 2026 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists will open on October 8, 2025 and will run through December 3, 2025. The nomination portal will be accessible once the nomination period starts. Please reach out to blavatnikawards@nyas.org with any questions.
Eligible Institutions
The list of eligible institutions is composed of over 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: Chemical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences & Engineering.
If your institution is not listed and would like to nominate, please send a brief statement of interest to blavatnikawards@nyas.org.
If you are interested in being nominated, please contact your institution’s Institutional Contact (listed below).
Alabama
Auburn University
Steve Taylor
University of Alabama
Jennifer Camp
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Frannie Horn
University of Alabama, Huntsville
David Puleo
University of South Alabama
Jo Bonner
Alaska
University of Alaska, Anchorage
Denise K. Runge
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Anupma Prakash
University of Alaska, Southeast
Carin Denise Silkaitis
Arizona
Arizona State University
Patricia Friedrich
Northern Arizona University
Andrew Koppisch
University of Arizona
Ronald Marx
Arkansas
University of Arkansas
Charles F. Robinson
California
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Gordon Lithgow
California Institute of Technology
Lauren Limbert
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
David Carlisle
City of Hope National Medical Center
Steven Rosen
Claremont Graduate University
Michelle Bligh
Gladstone Institutes
Deepak Srivastava
La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology
Shane Crotty
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carol Burns
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Micah Lowenthal
Loma Linda University
Ronald L. Carter
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Christopher Scholin
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Tom Brazda
San Diego State University
Adela de la Torre
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Amy Peake
Scripps Research Institute
Benjamin Cravatt
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Charlotte Chang
Stanford Research Institute International
Kathlynn Brown
Stanford University
Jessica Boydston
University of California, Berkeley
Tanya Volkert and Limited Submissions
University of California, Davis
Gloria Hayes
University of California, Irvine
Michael A. Gallo, Jr.
University of California, Los Angeles
Cynthia Gonzalez-Saylor
University of California, Merced
Juan Sánchez Muñoz
University of California, Riverside
Kim A. Wilcox
University of California, San Diego
UCSD Limited Submissions Office, Amanda Estrada
University of California, San Francisco
Melanie Dernyck
University of California, Santa Barbara
Lynn McLaughlin-Hill
University of California, Santa Cruz
Caroline Rodriguez
University of Southern California
Michael Yarksy
Colorado
Colorado School of Mines
Zach Lynott
Colorado State University
Dinaida Egan
National Jewish Health
Gregory P. Downey
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peter F. Green
University of Colorado
Todd Saliman
University of Colorado, Boulder
Joan Eaton
University of Colorado, Denver
Michelle Marks
University of Denver
Corinne Lengsfeld
US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Richard Barhydt
Connecticut
Trinity College
Sonia Cardenas
University of Connecticut
Anne D'Alleva
Yale University
Michael Crair
Delaware
University of Delaware
Scott Mangieri
District of Columbia
Carnegie Institution for Science
Kristen Palumbo
Catholic University of America
Peter K. Kilpatrick
Children's National Medical Center
Nathan Kuppermann
George Washington University
Susan Boerstling
Georgetown University
Jeffrey Urbach
Howard University
Anthony K. Wutoh
Smithsonian Institution
Amy Marino
University of the District of Columbia
Victor R. McCrary, Jr.
Florida
Florida Atlantic University
Russel Ivy
Florida International University
Kenneth Jessell
Florida State University
Carolyn Bradley
Max Planck Institute
David Fitzpatrick
Moffitt Cancer Center
Brian C. Springer
Nova Southeastern University
George L. Hanbury
University of Central Florida
Michael D. Johnson
University of Florida
Program Development
University of Miami
Tiffany Plantan
University of South Florida, Tampa
Sylvia W. Thomas
Georgia
Augusta University
Russel T. Keen
Emory University
Angie Wright
Georgia Institute of Technology
Michelle Rinehart
Georgia State University
Corrie Fountain
Mercer University
William Underwood
University of Georgia
Rachel Ankirskiy and Limited Submissions
Hawai'i
University of Hawai'i at Hilo
Joy Ma
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Michael S. Bruno
Idaho
Idaho National Laboratory
Shantay Ames
Idaho State University
Adam Bradford
University of Idaho
Limited Submission Team
Illinois
Argonne National Laboratory
Matthew Tirrell
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Lia Merminga
Illinois Institute of Technology
Kenneth T. Christensen
Loyola University Chicago
Mark C. Reed
Midwestern University
James Woods
Northern Illinois University
Lisa C. Freeman
Northwestern University
Christopher Schuh
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Judy Potashkin
Rush University
Christine M. Kennedy
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Costas Tsatsoulis
University of Chicago
Jonathan Trotter
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sarah O'Brien
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Melissa Chan
Indiana
Ball State University
Jacqueline Davis
Indiana University
Amjad Alrehaili
Purdue University
John Grundy
University of Notre Dame
Thomas Scrace
Iowa
Ames Laboratory
James Morris
Iowa State University
Jason Keith
University of Iowa
Barbara J. Wilson
Kansas
Kansas State University
Jesse Perez Mendez
University of Kansas
Alicia Reed
Wichita State University
Shirley Lefever
Kentucky
University of Kentucky
Kathy Grzech
University of Louisville
Leigh Botner
Louisiana
Louisiana State University
Kelly Robertson
Louisiana Tech University
Donna B. Thomas
Tulane University
Michael A. Fitts
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Joseph Savoie
University of New Orleans
Kathy E. Johnson
Maine
Jackson Laboratory
Mary Dickinson and Anna Lisa Lucido
University of Maine
John Volin
Maryland
J. Craig Venter Institute
Sanjay Vashee
Johns Hopkins University
Ray Jayawardhana
Morgan State University
Willie E. May
National Institutes of Health - Intramural Research Program
Nina Schor
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Morgan Frycklund
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Jill Frankenfield
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Don Engel
University of Maryland, College Park
Hana Kabashi
Massachusetts
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Tanya Santos
Boston Children's Hospital
Kevin Churchwell
Boston College
David Quigley
Boston University
Gloria S. Waters
Brandeis University
Carol A. Fierke
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Trey Toombs
Clark University
Jennifer Hanselman
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Myles Brown
Harvard University
Liza Harsch
Marine Biological Laboratory
Kelly Canesi
Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Kingston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ian Waitz
Northeastern University
Erin Hale
Tufts University
Caroline Attardo Genco
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Michael F. Collins
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Marco Cocito-Monoc
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Joseph B. Berger
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Julie Chen
Michigan
Michigan State University
Angela K. Wilson
Michigan Technological University
Andrew Storer
University of Michigan
Santa J. Ono
Van Andel Research Institute
Peter A. Jones
Wayne State University
Rachel L. Wallace
Western Michigan University
Julian Vasquez Heilig
Minnesota
Mayo Clinic
Vijay Shah
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Charles Nies
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Chris Bremmer
Mississippi
Jackson State University
ConSandra McNeil
Mississippi State University
Mark Keenum
University of Mississippi
Greg Easson
University of Southern Mississippi
Lance Nail
Missouri
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
James Carrington
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Mohammad Dehghani
Saint Louis University
Michael Lewis
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kausik Si
University of Missouri, Columbia
Matthew Martens
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Alex Holsinger
University of Missouri, Saint Louis
Alice Hall
Washington University in St. Louis
Mark Lowe
Montana
Montana State University
Waded Cruzado
University of Montana
Seth Bodnar
Nebraska
Creighton University
Daniel S. Hendrickson
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Rodney D. Bennett
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Sara Myers
Nevada
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Keith E. Whitfield
University of Nevada, Reno
Aurora Pinkey
New Hampshire
Dartmouth College
Yvonne Devineni
University of New Hampshire
Elizabeth S. Chilton
New Jersey
Institute for Advanced Study
David Nirenberg
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Atam Dhawan
NOAA Geophysical Dynamics Laboratory
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Jonathan Menard
Princeton University
Maureen Thompson-Siegel
Rutgers University
Angela Mullis
Rutgers University - Newark
Piotr Piotrowiak
Stevens Institute of Technology
Nariman Farvardin
New Mexico
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Anita Gallegos
New Mexico State University
R.T. James McAteer
Sandia National Laboratories
Basil Hassan
University of New Mexico
Monica Fishel
New York
Albany Medical College
Paul Feustel
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Indranil Basu
American Museum of Natural History
John Flynn
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Sylvia Restrepo
Brookhaven National Laboratory
JoAnne Hewett
Brooklyn College
April Bedford
Burke Neurological Institute
Rajiv Ratan
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Joshua Ginsberg
City College of New York
Tony Liss
Clarkson University
Christopher Robinson
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Bruce W. Stillman
Columbia University
Greg Culler
Cornell University
Elizabeth Diaz
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Steve Everett
Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Limited Submission Office
The Flatiron Institute
Molly Lopez
Fordham University
Dennis C. Jacobs
Hunter College
Nancy Cantor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dennis Charney
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mercedes Gorre
New York Blood Center
Christopher D. Hillyer
New York Medical College
Edward Halperin
New York University
Farooq Niazi
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Katepalli Sreenivasan
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sarah Niemann
Rochester Institute of Technology
LaVerne & McQuiller Williams
Rockefeller University
Frances Yee
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Judith Epstein
SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Lindi Quackenbush
SUNY-Downstate Medical Center
David Christini
SUNY-State University at Binghamton
Harvey Stenger
SUNY-State University at Buffalo
Carol O'Connell
SUNY-Stony Brook University
Emmy Yan
SUNY-University at Albany
Satyendra Kumar
SUNY-Upstate Medical Center
David C. Amberg
Syracuse University
Duncan Brown
University of Rochester
Sarah C. Mangelsdorf
Wadsworth Center
Erin Davis
Weill Cornell Medical College
Florencia Marcucci
North Carolina
Duke University
Vincent Price
East Carolina University
Robin N. Coger
North Carolina A & T State University
Tonjia May
North Carolina State University
Genevieve Garland
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Christopher Clemmens
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr.
Wake Forest University
Susan R. Wente
North Dakota
North Dakota State University
David Bertolini
University of North Dakota
Eric C. Link
Ohio
Bowling Green State University
Rodney K. Rogers
Case Western Reserve University
J. Michael Oakes
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jamilah Hackworth
Cleveland Clinic
Donna Driscoll
Cleveland State University
Roman Kondratov
Kent State University
Doug Delahanty
Miami University
Ruth Groom
Ohio State University
Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz
Ohio University
Marta Gomez
University of Akron
John Wiencek
University of Cincinnati
Kristen Oberholzer and UC Limited Submissions
University of Dayton
Eric F. Spina
University of Toledo
Scott Molitor
Wright State University
Amy Thompson
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Courtney Griffin
Oklahoma State University
Kenneth Sewell
Noble Research Institute
Carol Smith Drew
University of Oklahoma
Ann H. West
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Dawn Hammon
Oregon
Oregon Health & Science University
Peter Barr-Gillespie
Oregon State University
Jayathi Y. Murthy
Portland State University
Richard Tankersly
University of Oregon
Catherine Jarmin Miller
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon University
Leah Picker
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kate Maloney-Gross
Drexel University
Aleister Saunders
Duquesne University
Ken Gormley
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Jonathan Chernoff
Lehigh University
Anand Jagota
Monell Chemical Senses Center
Benjamin P.C. Smith
National Energy Technology Laboratory
NETL Awards & Nicole McVey
Pennsylvania State University
Jara Dorsey-Lash
Temple University
Miguel Mostafá
Thomas Jefferson University
Melissa Elgendy
University of Pennsylvania
Dawn Bonnell
University of Pittsburgh
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Ursinus College
Will Caverly
Wistar Institute
Dario C. Altieri
Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico
José Lasalde Dominicci
Rhode Island
Brown University
Margaret Manning
University of Rhode Island
Karen Markin
South Carolina
Clemson University
Thomas Kealy
Medical University of South Carolina
David J. Cole
Savannah River National Laboratory
Vahid Majidi
University of South Carolina
Jennifer McCormack
South Dakota
South Dakota State University
Jason Zimmerman
University of South Dakota
Kurt Hackemer
Tennessee
Meharry Medical College
James E.K. Hildreth
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Moody E. Altamimi
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Saundra Harris
University of Memphis
Bill Hardgrave
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Peter Buckley
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Hannah Schmidt
Vanderbilt University
Padma Raghavan
Texas
Baylor College of Medicine
Sheila Quinn
Baylor University
Linda Livingstone
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Guilio Draetta
Rice University
Devon Jones
Southern Methodist University
Brenna Rivas
Texas A & M University
Heather C. Lench
Texas A & M AgriLife Research
Amir Ibrahim
Texas A & M University Engineering Experiment Station
Arul Jayaraman
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Larry Schlesinger
Texas Tech University
Stephanie J. Jones
University of Houston
Renu Khator
University of North Texas
Harrison Keller
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Brian Gladue
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
Amy Hazen
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Natalia Glubisz
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Daniel K. Podolsky
University of Texas, Arlington
Kate Miller
University of Texas, Austin
Bob McGarrett
University of Texas, Dallas
Inga Musselman
University of Texas, El Paso
John Wiebe
University of Texas, San Antonio
JoAnn Browning
Utah
Brigham Young University
Kris Nelson
University of Utah
Sara Salmon
Utah State University
Jeri Hansen
Vermont
University of Vermont
Krista Koeller
Virginia
College of William and Mary
Peggy Agouris
George Mason University
James Antony
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Nelson Spruston
Macon and Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University
Alfred Abuhamad
Old Dominion University
Yvette Pearson
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
David J. Dean
University of Virginia
Ian Baucom
Virginia Commonwealth University
Archana Pathak
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Tim Sands
Washington
Allen Institute
Maria Gonzalez-White
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Fred Appelbaum
Institute for Systems Biology
Jim Heath
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tony Peurrung
University of Washington
Karen Luetjen
Washington State University
Douglas Call
West Virginia
West Virginia University
E. Gordon Gee
Wisconsin
Medical College of Wisconsin
John R. Raymond, Sr.
Morgridge Institute for Research
Billy Swisher
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Cynthia Czajkowski
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Anne Kissack
Wyoming
University of Wyoming
Kevin Carman