US National Awards: Eligible Institutions

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

Lisa Joiner

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

Jody Waters

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

Nadia Campbell

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

David O'Keefe

The Scripps Research Institute

Benjamin Cravatt

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Natalie Geise

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

Kelly Bolcavage

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

Rob Dunton

University of California, Santa Cruz

Caroline Rodriguez

University of Southern California

Jennifer Lidar

Colorado

Colorado School of Mines

Zach Lynott

Colorado State University

Dinaida Egan

National Jewish Health

Gregory P. Downey

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Adam Bratis

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

Zandra Ruiz

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

The 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

Alex Wilson

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

Emi Walker

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 Chicago

Sarah O'Brien

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Melissa Chan

Indiana

Ball State University

Jacqueline Davis

Indiana University

Andrew McLaren

Purdue University

John Grundy

University of Notre Dame

Thomas Scrace

Iowa

Ames Laboratory

James Morris

Iowa State University

Jason Keith, grantshub@iastate.edu

University of Iowa

Barbara J. Wilson

Kansas

Kansas State University

Jesse Perez Mendez

University of Kansas

Alicia Reed

Wichita State University

Laura Manning (Executive Assistant to Provost)

Kentucky

University of Kentucky

Kathy Grzech

University of Louisville

Leigh Botner

Louisiana

Louisiana State University

Robert Twilley

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

Kyva Altamirano

Boston Children's Hospital

Nancy Andrews

Boston College

David Quigley

Boston University

Gloria S. Waters

Brandeis University

Carol A. Fierke

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Katherine Book

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

Amy Gantt

University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Michael F. Collins

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Marco Cocito-Monoc

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Joseph B. Berger

The University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Daniel Riechers

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

Nicole Motzer

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

Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation

William Evans

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-Newark

Rutgers Newark Research Office

Rutgers-New Brunswick

Angela Mullis

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

Cheryl Hayashi

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

Sylvia Restrepo

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Kathi Barkigia

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

Sydney Gary

Columbia University

Greg Culler

Cornell University

Gayle Fagan

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

Christopher B. Braun

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sandra Masur

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-Binghamton University

Bailey Benninger

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

Libby Reitz

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

Ravenel Richardson

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Jamilah Hackworth

Cleveland Clinic

Donna Driscoll

Cleveland State University

Roman Kondratov

Kent State University

Doug Delahanty

Miami University

Elise Radina

Ohio State University

Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz

Ohio University

Donald J. Leo

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

Jim Denniston

Oklahoma

Noble Research Institute

Pryce Holley

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

Courtney Griffin

Oklahoma State University

Kenneth Sewell

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)

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

researchdev@pitt.edu

Ursinus College

Kelly Sorensen

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

Rebecca Doom

Texas

Baylor College of Medicine

Sheila Quinn

Baylor University

Linda Livingstone

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

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Guilio Draetta

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Christy Taylor-Bray

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

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Jennifer Potter

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

Zarixia Zavala-Ruiz

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

Matt Dooley and Limited Submissions

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

Michael T. Benson

Wisconsin

Medical College of Wisconsin

John R. Raymond, Sr.

Morgridge Institute for Research

Billy Swisher

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nick Novak

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Anne Kissack

Wyoming

University of Wyoming

Anne Alexander