Megan Edwards, a PhD candidate, and Harish Vasudevan, an MD/PhD candidate, received the 2015 Terry Ann Krulwich Doctoral Dissertation Prize. The two have an impressive history in research and journal publications.
The award, named for and founded by the long-time, esteemed faculty leader at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, recognizes distinguished, original research and analysis in student dissertations.
Megan Edwards conducted her research in the Basler Lab, within the Microbiology multidisciplinary training area. In 2015 she published in both the Journal of Infectious Diseases and ACS Infectious Diseases, including “High-throughput minigenome system for identifying small-molecule inhibitors of Ebola Virus replication” and “Marburg Virus VP24 protein relieves suppression of the NF-κB pathway through interaction with kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1” respectively.
She has also published in MBio, Cell Host and Microbe, and Cell Reports. Her other recent Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai honors include the Travel Award and the David Baltimore Traveling Fellowship. She has been an invited speaker with the American Society of Virology and EMBOs Human RNA Viruses Workshop.
Harish Vasudevan conducted his research in the Soriano lab of the Developmental Stem Cell Biology multidisciplinary training area. He has published “Receptor tyrosine kinases modulate distinct transcriptional programs by differential usage of intracellular pathways “ in eLife; “SRF regulates craniofacial development through selective recruitment of MRTF cofactors by PDGF signaling” in Developmental Cell; and “The widely used Wnt1-Cre transgene causes developmental phenotypes by ectopic activation of Wnt signaling” in Developmental Biology.
Previously, he received the NIH F31 National Research Service Award, the President’s Volunteer Service Award, and was a featured speaker at the American Physician Scientists Association Annual Meeting.