Awarded in 2005
Home Department: Chemical Engineering, Ophthalmology
Faculty Advisors: Curtis Frank (Chemical Engineering) and Christopher Ta (Ophthalmology)

Dr. Cornfield's lab addresses several large thematic issues, including: (i) regulation of pulmonary vascular tone; (ii) oxygen sensing in the lung; (iii) biological determinants of preterm labor focusing on myometrial smooth muscle cells; (iv) developmental regulation of barrier function in the lung; and (v) the role of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 in lung development.

Awarded in 2018
Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisors: Sean Bendall (Pathology) and Stephen Quake (Bioengineering and Applied Physics)

Dr. Relman's primary research focus is the human indigenous microbiota, and in particular, the nature and mechanisms of variation in patterns of microbial diversity within the human body as a function of time, space, and in response to perturbation, e.g., antibiotics.