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Awards and Accolades
2023
Sabra Klein is listed as one of the world’s top 2% of researchers by the Stanford/ Elsevier ranking metrics
Sabra Klein is listed as one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics
Postdoctoral fellow Joseph Hoffman is awarded a slot on the BMB T32 training grant.
Postdoctoral fellow Laura St Clair is elected the 1st GRS Chair for the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Sex Differences in Immunity
Postdoctoral fellow Brittany Seibert is awarded a slot on the MMI vector-borne infectious diseases T32 training grant.
Postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Liu is invited as a short speaker for the effects of COVID-19 physiology and cognition nanosymposium at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2023 conference.
Postdoctoral fellow Laura St Clair is invited to give a flash talk at the NCI Serological Sciences Network 2023 Annual Meeting
Sabra Klein receives the Vivian Pinn Award for Excellence in Women’s Health Research from the VCU Institute for Women’s Health
PhD Candidate Patrick Creisher and postdoctoral fellows Jennifer Liu and Sabal Chaulagain are awarded travel grants to attend the American Society for Virology Conference
Postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Liu is invited as a short speaker at the RECOVER Pathobiology collaborative investigator meeting
PhD student Patrick Creisher receives travel award to attend the 2023 Infections in Pregnancy Keystone Conference
Postdoctoral fellow Laura St Clair is awarded a two-year NIH/NIA Loan Repayment Program Grant
Postdoctoral fellow Sabal Chaulagain receives an NIH CEIRR training fellowship to conduct research with Dr. Daniel Perez at UGA.
Postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Liu is selected to give a talk at the 2023 inaugural Long COVID Keystone Conference
Junior faculty member Han-Sol Park is selected to be a speaker at the 2023 inaugural Gordon Research Conference on sex differences in immunity
2022
Sabra Klein and William Bishai receive an NIH Merit award to study sex differences in tuberculosis pathogenesis
Sabra Klein is listed as one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics
Postdoctoral fellow Laura St Clair successfully competes for a slot on the MMI T32
2021
Sabra Klein becomes a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2020
PhD student Janna Shapiro awarded a doctoral training award from the “Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé” (the Quebec Research Foundation - Health)”
PhD student Becca Ursin receives travel award to the American Society for Virology 2020 and the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences 2020 meets (both meetings cancelled due to COVID-19).
PhD student Becca Ursin wins 1st Place in the Laboratory Sciences division and 1st Place overall at the 2020 Delta Omega Society Poster competition.
Postdoctoral fellow Santosh Dhakal and PhD student Becca Ursin awarded travel awards to present at Optimmunize: Improving the Beneficial Effects of Vaccines.
2019
Postdoctoral fellow Santosh Dhakal awarded a Postdoctoral Scholar Travel Award to present at the 2019 American Society for Virology annual meeting.
Postdoctoral fellow Santosh Dhakal awarded as “one of the top 5 poster presentations” by the Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Association.
PhD student Becca Ursin wins 3rd Place in Laboratory Sciences division at the 2019 Delta Omega Society Poster competition.
Postdoctoral fellow Santosh Dhakal awarded a Center for Excellence in Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS) Training Award to work in the laboratory of Dr. Florian Krammer at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Media
Dr. Klein discusses why COVID-19 is hitting men harder than women
Dr. Klein joins TWiV to discuss the effect of sex, gender, and age on viral infectious disease, including COVID-19.
Catch a glance of Dr. Klein and Becca in this video from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Klein joins the Public Health on Call podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss risk factors associated with COVID-19.
Dr. Klein is featured in “Sex differences in COVID-19” by the Physiological Society
Dr. Klein speaks to France 24 about sex differences in the immune response to COVID-19.