Graduate Student Spark Grants 2026

Yujin An (Chung Lab) - Brain-in-the-Loop Spatial Co-Pilot for Humanoid
Robot Control

Sarah Garzione (Karthikeyan Lab) - In Situ Microbial Metabolic Profiling in Ileal Fibrotic Crohn's Disease (IFCD)

Ann Popovici (Gradinaru Lab) - Engineering Vault Nanoparticles for Therapeutic mRNA Delivery

Albert Qiang (Elowitz Lab) - An Engineered Protein Circuit for Selective Elimination of Liver-Stage Malaria Parasites

Jayden Zheng (Shimojo Lab) - Causal Mapping and Closed-Loop Ultrasound Modulation of ACC Error-Monitoring Signals