Congratulations to all the 2012 ADDF Outstanding Young Investigator and Young Investigator Scholarship Award winners. These scholarships recognize the early achievements of talented young investigators and seek to encourage the career development of the next generation of research scientists in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. All winners will receive free conference registration and the opportunity to present a poster.

ADDF Outstanding Young Investigator Award Recipients:

Outstanding Young Investigators also received a travel stipend.

Karim Belarbi, University of California, San Francisco
Gina Finan, Columbia University
Marguerite Prior, Salk Institute
Maria Telpoukhovskaia, University of British Columbia
Lawren VandeVrede, University of Illinois at Chicago

ADDF Young Investigator Scholarship Recipients:

Hazem Abdelkarim, University of Illinois at Chicago
Fatima Ali-Rahmani, Pennsylvania State University
Tari Awipi, F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Seema Bag, University of Massachusetts
Shireesha Boyapati, Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy
Dwayne Brown, Howard University
Daniel Curlik, Rutgers University
Alexandra Gaspar, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto
James Kraus, Northwestern University
Cong Liu, University of California, Los Angeles
Katrina Paumier, Pfizer
Joana Reis, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto
Isaac Schiefer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tiago Silva, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto
Neha Singla, Panjab University
Abha Sood, University of Massachusetts in Boston
Jose Teixeira, Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto
Aditya Vaidya, University of Illinois at Chicago
Amit Verma, The M S University of Baroda
Meagan Wisniewski, University of North Carolina-Pembroke

Funding for these awards and scholarships was made possible in part by support from: