Visiting Scholar Award Recipients

2024 Winners

Natascha Merten

Assistant Professor
Population Health Sciences and Medicine
Visiting Scholar hosted: Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH

Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH

Investigator, Epidemiologist
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
Host: Natascha Merten, PhD, MS

Leandro Teixeira & Richard Dubielzig

COPLOW Director (Teixeira) & Prof. Emeritus of Pathobiological Sciences (Dubielzig)
Visiting Scholar hosted: Kelsey Jenkins

Kelsey Jenkins

PhD Candidate
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University
Hosts: Leandro Teixeira, DVM and Richard Dubielzig, DVM, DACVP, DACVO

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2023 Winners

2023 Winners

Robert F. Cooper

Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,
Marquette University & Medical College of Wisconsin
Visiting Scholar hosted: Ramkumar Sabesan

Ramkumar Sabesan

Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology, University of Washington
Host: Robert F. Cooper

Gillian McLellan

Professor
Surgical Sciences / Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Visiting Scholar hosted: Rebecca Sappington

Rebecca Sappington

Associate Professor
Biochemistry/Ophthalmology, Wake Forest University
Host: Gillian McLellan

Andrea Mason, Kristin Pickett, Kevin Ponto

Professor, Assistant Professor, & Associate Professor (respectively)
Kinesiology (Mason, Pickett) & Design Studies (Ponto)
Visiting Scholar hosted: Jan Hondzinski

Jan Hondzinski

Professor
Kinesiology, Louisiana State University
Hosts: Andrea Mason, Kristin Pickett, Kevin Ponto

2022 Winners

No awards given this year due to pandemic

2021 Winners

No awards given this year due to pandemic

2020 Winners

Heather Kirkorian

Associate Professor
Human Development and Family Studies
Visiting Scholar hosted: John Franchak

John Franchak

Assistant Professor
Psychology, UC-Riverside
Host: Heather Kirkorian

Karen Schloss

Associate Professor
Psychology
Visiting Scholar hosted: Kevin Lande

Kevin Lande

Assistant Professor
Philosophy, Centre for Vision Research, York University
Host: Karen Schloss

2019 Winners

Joseph Carroll

Professor
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Marquette Univ & MCW
Visiting Scholar hosted: Deepak Lamba

Deepak Lamba

Associate Professor
Ophthalmology / Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine & Stem Cell Research, UCSF
host: Joseph Carroll

Paul Kaufman

Professor
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Visiting Scholar hosted: Ernst Tamm

Ernst Tamm

Professor
Institute of Human Anatomy & Embryology, University of Regensburg
Host: Paul Kaufman

Ari Rosenberg

Associate Professor
Neuroscience
Visiting Scholar hosted: Curtis Baker

Curtis Baker

Graduate Student
Neuroscience
Host: Ari Rosenberg

Raunak Sinha

Assistant Professor
Neuroscience
Visiting Scholar hosted: Max Turner

Max Turner

Postdoctoral Researcher
Neurobiology, Stanford University
Host: Raunak Sinha

2018 Winners

Janis T Eells & Akihiro Ikeda

Professors
Biomedical Sciences, UW-Milwaukee (Eells) & Medical Genetics, UW-Madison (Ikeda)
Visiting Scholar hosted: Riccardo Natoli

Riccardo Natoli

Associate Professor
Neuroscience, Australian National Univ.
Hosts: Janis T Eells & Aki Ikeda

2017 Winners

Gillian McLellan

Professor
Surgical Sciences / Ophthalmology &amp Visual Sciences
Visiting Scholar hosted: Alex Huang

Alex Huang

Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology, Doheny Eye Institute, UCLA
Host: Gillian McLellan

2016 Winner

Vanessa Simmering

Assistant Professor
Psychology
Visiting Scholar hosted: Shannon Ross-Sheehy

Shannon Ross-Sheehy

Assistant Professor
Psychology, Univ of Tennessee-Knoxville
Host: Vanessa Simmering