Application Instructions
Fellowship support is centered on the transition from graduate school to postdoctoral fellowship. Graduate students entering the final year of their PhD and early postdoctoral fellows are invited to apply. Detailed information is provided in the application instructions.
Fellowship applications can be submitted to stanfordcehg@stanford.edu (Applications for 2025-26 are open now!).
2024-25 Fellows
| Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (N/A) |
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| Tang, Bingjing | Post-Doctoral | Julia Palacios | |
| Mahadevan, Aditya | Pre-Doctoral | Daniel Fisher | |
| Goldstein, Isaac | Post-Doctoral | Julia Palacios | |
| Leventhal, Laura | Pre-Doctoral | Moises Exposito-Alonso | |
| Smith, Courtney | Pre-Doctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | |
| Agwamba, Kennedy | Post-Doctoral | Noah Rosenberg | |
| Gopalakrishnan, Shreyas | Post-Doctoral | Dmitri Petrov | |
2023-24 Fellows
| Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (N/A) |
|---|
| Gupta, Shubnam | Post-Doctoral | Michael Snyder | |
| Nyathi, Sindiso | Pre-Doctoral | Erin Mordecai | |
| Park, Seoungyeol | Post-Doctoral | Christina Curtis | |
| Wu, Xing | Post-Doctoral | Moises Exposito-Alonso | |
| Papula, Alana | Pre-Doctoral | Daniel Fisher | |
| Richard, Daniel | Post-Doctoral | Anne Brunet | |
2022-23 Fellows
| Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
|---|
| Chappell, Callie | Pre-Doctoral | Tad Fukami | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University |
| Cotter, Daniel | Pre-Doctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Big Data Architect, Stanford Genetics |
| Couper, Lisa | Pre-Doctoral | Erin Mordecai | Postdoc, UC Berkeley Environmental Health Sciences |
| Denton, Kaleda | Pre-Doctoral | Marcus Feldman | Postdoc, Stanford Biology |
| Lin, Meixi | Post-Doctoral | Moises Exposito-Alonso | Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Biosphere Sciences & Engineering |
| Liu, Xiran | Pre-Doctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Postdoc, Brown University Computational Molecular Biology |
| Patel, Roshni | Pre-Doctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Ph.D Candidate, Stanford Genetics |
| Payne, Cheyenne | Pre-Doctoral | Molly Schumer | Ph.D Candidate, Stanford Biology |
| Vila, Jean | Post-Doctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Postdoc, Stanford Biology |
2021-22 Fellows
| Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
|---|
| Abante, Jordi | Post-Doctoral | Julia Salzman | Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer, University of Barcelona |
| Hately, Shannon | Post-Doctoral | Moises Exposito-Alonso | Senior Data Scientist, X, the moonshot company |
| Kinsler, Grant | Pre-Doctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania Bioengineering |
| Nova, Nicole | Pre-Doctoral | Erin Mordecai & Dmitri Petrov | Postdoc, High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University |
| Shen, Hao | Pre-Doctoral | Marcus Feldman | Postdoc, University of Chicago Biology |
| Silvers, Thomas | Pre-Doctoral | Dan Jarosz & Hunter Fraser | Postdoc, Stanford Chemical and Systems Biology |
2020-21 Fellows
| Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
|---|
| Abreu, Clare | Post-Doctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Postdoc, Stanford Biology |
| Barnes, Elle | Post-Doctoral | Tad Fukami | Ph.D. candidate in Biological Sciences, Fordham University |
| Birzu, Gabriel | Post-Doctoral | Daniel Fisher | Postdoc, Stanford Applied Physics |
| Chen, Heidi | Pre-Doctoral | Gill Bejerano and David Kingsley | Postdoctoral Researcher, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
| Ersaro (Ferraro), Nicole | Pre-Doctoral | Stephen Montgomery | Bioinformatics Manager, Illumina |
| Hays, Michelle | Post-Doctoral | Gavin Sherlock | Postdoc, Stanford Genetics |
| Mooney, Jazlyn | Post-Doctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Computational Biology, USC |
| Severson, Alissa | Pre-Doctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Bioinformatics Scientist, D2G Oncology, Inc. |
| Sinnott-Armstrong, Nasa | Pre-Doctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, Fred Hutch Cancer Center |
| Weiss, Clemens | Post-Doctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Research Engineer, Stanford Cancer Institute Core |
2019-20 Fellows
| Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
|---|
| Agoglia, Rachel | Pre-Doctoral | Hunter Fraser | Scientist, Mission Bio |
| Ebel, Emily | Pre-Doctoral | Petrov Lab | Postdoc, Stanford Med |
| Fremin, Brayon | Pre-Doctoral | Bhatt Lab | Postdoc, Berkeley Lab |
| Langdon, Quinn | Post-Doctoral | Schumer Lab | Bioinformatician, Gladstone Institutes |
| Simons, Yuval | Post-Doctoral | Pritchard Lab | Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago |
| Weiss, Carly | Post-Doctoral | Petrov Lab | Bioinformatics Scientist II, Guardant Health |
2018-19 Fellows
| Fellow | Pre- or Post- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
|---|
| Agarwala, Atish | Pre-Doctoral | Daniel Fisher | Research Scientist, Google |
| Bogar, Laura | Pre-Doctoral | Kabir Peay | Assistant Professor of Plant Biology, UC Davis |
| Hornburg, Daniel | Post-Doctoral | Michael Snyder | Vice President Biomarkers & Precision Medicine, Bruker |
| Li, Yuping | Pre-Doctoral | Gavin Sherlock & Dmitri Petrov | Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF |
| Mack, Katya | Post-Doctoral | Hunter Fraser | Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas |
| Popejoy, Alice | Post-Doctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis |
| Sanchez, Monica | Post-Doctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Research Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories |
| Song, Janet | Pre-Doctoral | David Kingsley | Postdoc, Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School |
| Tamburini, Fiona | Pre-Doctoral | Ami Bhatt | Senior Scientist, OMNI Bioinformatics |
2017-18 Fellows
| Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
|---|
| Endlich, Solomon | Postdoctoral | Gill Bejerano | Cofounder and CEO, Base5Genomics, Mountain View, CA |
| Feder, Alison | Predoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington |
| Frank, Hannah | Postdoctoral | Scott Boyd | Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Tulane University |
| Greenbaum, Gili | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Harpak, Arbel | Predoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Assistant Professor of Population Health, University of Texas, Austin |
| Jagadeesh, Karthik | Predoctoral | Gill Bejerano | Postdoctoral Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| Li, Chuan | Postdoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Chief Science Officer, Lambda Labs |
| Liu, Boxiang | Predoctoral | Stephen Montgomery | Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore |
| Mehta, Rohan | Predoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Engineering Manager, Apple |
| Morikawa, Megan | Predoctoral | Stephen Palumbi | Global Sustainability Office Director, Iberostar Group |
| Herrera Paredes, Sur | Postdoctoral | Hunter Fraser | PI, Evolution and Ecology Lab at International Laboratory for Human Genome Research |
| Telis, Natalie | Predoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Senior Research Scientist, Helix |
2016-17 Fellows
| Fellow | Post- or Pre-Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
|---|
| Boyer, Sebastien | Postdoctoral | Gavin Sherlock | Co-founder & Chairman, Farmwise |
| DeBoever, Chris | Postdoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard/Stephen Montgomery/Carlos Bustamante | Principal Scientist, Takeda |
| Deng, Tricia | Predoctoral | Billy Li | Software Engineer, Meta |
| Gao, Ziyue | Postdoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Assistant Professor of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania |
| Goldberg, Amy | Predoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke |
| Greenblum, Sharon | Postdoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Computational Biologist, Joint Genome Institute |
| Kim, Jaehee | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, Cornell |
| Solari, Katie | Predoctoral | Liz Hadly | Associate Director of Genomics, Program for Conservation Genomics, Stanford |
| Ram, Yoav | Postdoctoral | Marcus Feldman | Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University |
| York, Ryan | Predoctoral | Hunter Fraser | Scientist, Arcadia |
| Zappala, Zach | Predoctoral | Stephen Montgomery | Principal Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
2015-16 Fellows
| Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
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| Behar, Hilla | Postdoctoral | Marcus Feldman | Senior Data Scientist, Samueli institute |
| Fresard, Laure | Postdoctoral | Stephen Montgomery | Senior Computational Biologist, Invitae |
| Herissant, Lucas | Postdoctoral | Gavin Sherlock | Postdoctoral Fellow, Curie Institute, Paris, France |
| Jiang, Chao | Postdoctoral | Mike Snyder | Principal Investigator, Zhejiang University |
| Kaplow, Irene | Predoctoral | Hunter Fraser and Anshul Kundaje | Assistant Professor of Biology, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Krishna Kumar, Siddharth | Predoctoral | Shripad Tuljapurkar | ML Engineer, Doordash |
| Letten, Andrew | Postdoctoral | Tadashi Fukami | Population Biologist in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland |
| Li, Yang | Postdoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Associate Professor of Genetic Medicine, University of Chicago |
| McLaren, Michael | Predoctoral | Marcus Feldman | Research Scientist, SecureBio |
| Ravenscraft, Alison | Predoctoral | Kabir Peay | Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington |
| Priya Singh, Param | Postdoctoral | Anne Brunet | Assistant Professor of Anatomy, UCSF |
| Szabo, Linda | Predoctoral | Julia Salzman | Computational Biologist, Pivotal Life Sciences |
| Uricchio, Lawrence | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Assistant Professor of Biology, Tufts University |
| Venkataram, Sandeep | Predoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Computational Biologist, Hexagon Bio |
2014-15 Fellows
| Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
|---|
| Alcala, Nicolas | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Computational Biologist, World Health Organization |
| Algee-Hewitt, Bridget | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Senior Associate Director of the Research Institute, Ctr for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), Stanford |
| Bay, Rachael | Predoctoral | Stephen Palumbi | Assistant Professor, UC Davis |
| Bhaskar, Anand | Postdoctoral | Jonathan Pritchard | Research Scientist, Waymo |
| Garud, Nandita | Predoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Assistant Professor of Ecology And Evolutionary Biology and Human Genetics, UCLA |
| Kolodny, Oren | Postdoctoral | Marcus Feldman | Senior Lecturer, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| McFarland, Christopher | Postdoctoral | Dmitri Petrov | Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University |
| McManus, Kimberly | Predoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | White House Presidential Innovation Fellow in the Office of the CTO at the Department of Veterans Affairs |
| O'Brown, Natasha | Predoctoral | David Kingsley | Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers |
| Rychkova, Anna | Postdoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Senior Scientist at Alector, South San Francisco, in Target Discovery and Genomics |
| Xie, Kathleen | Predoctoral | David Kingsley | Principal Scientist I, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research |
2013-14 Fellows
| Fellow | Post- or Pre- Doctoral | Faculty Advisor | Current Position (2024) |
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| Jewett, Ethan | Predoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Population Geneticist, 23andMe |
| Kamneva, Olga | Postdoctoral | Noah Rosenberg | Data Scientist, Technical Lead Manager, Google |
| Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou, Sofia | Predoctoral | Serafim Batzoglou | Associate Director, Computational Biology & ML, ArsenalBio |
| Marcovitz, Amir | Postdoctoral | Gill Bejerano | Staff Scientist, Bioinformatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Mendez, Fernando | Postdoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Senior Staff Bioinformatics Scientist at Accuragen |
| Ioannidis, Nilah | Postdoctoral | Carlos Bustamante | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Computational Biology, UC Berkeley |
| Peterson, Christine | Postdoctoral | Chiara Sabatti | Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Tepolt, Carolyn | Predoctoral | Stephen Palumbi | Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Wittmann, Meike | Postdoctoral | Dmtri Petrov | Professor of Biology, University of Bielefeld, Germany |
