Founders' Medal Award

Congratulations to Vivian A. Fonseca, MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, the SSCI's 2025 Founders' Medal Award recipient!

Mentor of the Year Awards

Fatima Alduraibi
Harvard University

Stefanie Krick
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Tinsley Harrison Award

The 2025 Tinsley Harrison Award was presented to Moustafa Younis, University of Florida College of Medicine for his paper entitled "Echocardiography and Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Undergoing Lung Transplantation Evaluation".

SSCI Michael S. & Kathy J. Bronze Young Investigator Awards

First

Robert Clark, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Immunomodulation Ameliorates Adaptive Immune Responses to Adeno-Associated Virus Mediated Gene Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis"

Second

Grace Kim, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
"Linking Sars-Cov-2 Genomic Variants to Patient Records: Investigating the Relationship Of Variant Sequences and Post-Acute Sequelae of Sars-Cov-2 Infection"

Third

Juliet Strauss, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Roles of Translesion DNA Polymerases in Pole-Dependent Mutagenesis"

SSCI Young Investigator Award in General Internal Medicine

Raksha Ramdas, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Comprehensive Assessment of Lived Experience and Burnout in Caregivers of Transitioning Young Adults with Childhood Medical Complexity in Alabama: A Mixed Method Approach"

Nathan Solomon & Irene Oransky-Solomon Medical Student Awards

First

Rebecca Horowitz, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Mechanisms of Vaccine Hyporesponse in Hypertension"

Second

Parks Remcho, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Lobar Specific B Resident Memory Cell (BRM) Transcripts Following Bacterial Pneumonia in Rhesus Macaques"

SSCI Poster Awards

First

Paula Dibo, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Efficacy and Safety of Sparsentan in Glomerular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials"

Second

Sneha Centala, Ochsner Clinic Foundation
"Longitudinal Immune Cell Profiling and Clinical Features in Obese Lupus Patients"

Third

Savita Singh, University of Queensland, Ochsner Medical School
"Physical Inactivity-Hypertension Association in Louisiana"

SSCI Early Career Awards

Jessica Howard-Anderson, Emory University School of Medicine

Yousaf Zafar, University of Mississippi Medical Center

SSCI Student Research Awards

SSCI Trainee Research Awards

SSCI Young Faculty Research Awards