Eugene Gorzynski Travel Award
The Gorzynski Travel Award supports a PhD or MD/PhD student who is traveling to a national or international meeting to present a research paper or poster.
Eligibility
You must have been formally accepted as a presenter at a research meeting. You also must be in good academic standing in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
Based on past considerations, we will take into account the size and scope of the meeting as well as the form of your presentation (talk versus poster).
Selection Process
Your faculty mentor may nominate you for this award.
Notification
If you are selected for the Gorzynski award, we’ll notify you with a letter.
Award
If you receive this award, we will recognize you at the Buffalo Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis.
Past Recipients
- L. Beryl Guterman MD/PhD '27 (2024)
- Brandon Waxman PhD '25 (2023)
- Corey Knowles, PhD '23 and Shaunna Simmons PhD '24 (2022)
- Anna Stovall, PhD '21 (2020)
- Jay Leipheimer, PhD '19 (2019)
- Connie Rink, PhD ’18 (2018)
- Lucie Kafkova, PhD ’18 (2017)
- Lucie Kafkova, PhD ’18 (2016)
- Richard Jin, MD/PhD ’20 (2015)
- Megan Jones, PhD ’15 (2014)
- Amanda Bloom, PhD ’14 (2013)
- Emily Clementi, PhD ’13 (2012)
- Cara Clementi, PhD ’13 (2011)
- Robert Tyx, PhD ’12 (2010)
- Martin Ciganda, PhD ’12 (2009)
- Jennifer Barnas, MD/PhD ’12 (2008)
- Kimberly M. Prohaska, PhD ’08 (2007)
- Lori Broderick, MD/PhD ’07 (2006)
Eugene Gorzynski, PhD
Eugene Gorzynski, PhD, a former student and faculty member of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, was a popular teacher and respected researcher.
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Administrator, Academic Programs
Caroline Golach
Senior Staff Assistant
Microbiology and Immunology