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Congratulations to Viraj Rana for being selected as a Pelotonia Graduate Scholar.
Congratulations to Berkay Selcuk (Advisor: Igor Jouline) whose first author paper "Decoding functional specialization in G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) through evolution-guided residue…
Congratulations to William Yost (advisors: Gunjan Agarwal) whose first author paper "Effect of ionic strength on the flexibility of Col IV molecules" has been published in the Journal of…
Congratulations to the following Biophysics students who won awards during the 2026 IGP Symposium!
Eleanor Rimmerman
Advisor: Mitchel Stacy
Plenary Speaker
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Congratulations to Parth Pardeshi (advisors: Kristin Stanford) whose first author paper "Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles From Mouse Brown Adipose Tissue Secretome Using Size-Exclusion…
We are proud to celebrate the following Biophysics PhD students on this major milestone and wish them continued success in their next endeavors!
Jonathan Fritz
Advisor:…
Congratulations to Lily Schumacher whose first author paper "Arabidopsis KASH domains are differentially required for distinct LINC complex roles in stomata, roots and pollen" has been published…
Congratulations to our award recipients for 2026:
Eleanor Rimmerman, Ralf A. Bundschuh Outstanding Biophysics Student Award
Vladimir Bogdanov, Outstanding Biophysics…
Congratulations to Jon Fritz and Lily Schumacher for receiving honorable mentions at the 2026 Hayes Advanced Research Forum!
Congratulations to Richard Sui who published a first author paper in the Biophysical Journal!
Three Minute Thesis, developed by The University of Queensland, is an international competition where graduate students present their research and its impact in under three minutes to a general…
Please join us in congratulating Biophysics student Eleanor Rimmerman (advisor: Mitchel Stacy) who is one of the 2025-26 recipients of The Presidential Fellowship!
The…
Congratulations to Lily Schumacher who was awarded the Edward J. Ray Travel Award and the Career Development Grant from the Council of Graduate Students! She will use these awards to attend the…
The outstanding student award has been renamed The Ralf A. Bundschuh Outstanding Student Award in the Biophysics Program in honor of Ralf who has served the Biophysics Program as a co-director,…
Congratulations to Emily Chan who was awarded the Critical Difference Travel Award by The Womens Place at The Ohio State University!
Congratulations to James Serna who gave a talk on his research at Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference (MWTCC) and was awarded Best Talk!
The 17th Annual IGP Symposium showcases the research of students belonging to the Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs: Biophysics; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology …
Congratulations to Eleanor Rimmerman who was selected by the American Heart Association as a winner of their Travel Grant for Early Career Investigators for their 2024 Vascular Discovery…
Congratulations to Sarah Sturgill who was selected by the Biophysics Graduate Studies Committee as the Biophysics Outstanding Student Award winner 2024 for her academic achievements and…
Congratulations to Dr. Vladislav Belyy who was selected by Biophysics graduate students for his demonstration of excellence and outstanding contributions to the Biophysics Graduate Program!
The Biophysics Program will host Dr. Arthur Palmer from Columbia University for the annual Robert Ross Lecture on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 1:30-3:00pm in Davis Heart and Lung Institute room 170…
Congratulations to Biophysics Graduate Student Vlad Bogdanov who won a Poster Competition Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) at the Biophysical Society Conference in Philadelphia last month…
Congratulations to Jonathan Fritz for being awarded the Center for Clinical & Translational Science (CCTS) T32 Predoctoral Grant! This award will provide full-time research training support for…
Biophysics Graduate Program alumnus Ben Donovan (now a postdoctoral researcher at the NIH) published part of his OSU PhD work in the high impact journal Molecular Cell. His work on how…
Vladimir Bogdanov has received a travel award and poster presentation award at the "Muscle: Excitation-Contraction Coupling Gordon Research Conference". Congratulations, Vlad!
The 16th Annual IGP Symposium showcases the research of students belonging to the Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs: Biophysics; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology …
Biophysics PhD Candidate Paige Bowling is a 2023 recipient of the John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry! Paige has demonstrated "a strong…
Congratulations to Eric Hantz who was selected by the Biophysics Graduate Studies Committee as the Biophysics Outstanding Student Award winner 2023 for his academic achievements!
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Davis who was selected by Biophysics graduate students for his demonstration of excellence and outstanding contributions to the Biophysics Graduate Program!
Jonathan Fritz has received Honorable Mention for his National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program application. Congratulations Jonathan!
Congratulations to Sarah Sturgill for being awarded the Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) award! The AGGRS award will help support Sarah in her dissertation research.
Max Westphal was selected competitively as one of the 2018 Pelotonia Graduate Fellows for his research on improved approaches for cancer X ray treatments. The Pelotonia Fellowship will cover his…
Congratulations to Mohamed Mohssen for being awarded The Presidential Fellowship award! The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School, and will support…
The Biophysics Program is pleased to announce that Dr. Gunjan Agarwal has been appointed as the new co-director of Biophysics! She is a professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where she…
Congratulations to Emily Chan who was selected competitively as a 2022 Pelotonia Graduate Fellow! The Graduate Pelotonia Fellowship awards a two years of support to Ohio States best a brightest…
The 15th Annual IGP Symposium showcases the research of students belonging to the Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs: Biophysics; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology …
Congratulations to Dr. Rafael Bruschweiler who was selected by Biophysics graduate students for his demonstration of excellence and outstanding contributions to the Biophysics Graduate Program!
Congratulations to Biophysics graduate student Jonathan Fritz who was awarded an external conference scholarship to attend the Summer School Solvation Science Conference in Bochum Germany!
Congratulations to Kevin Walsh who was selected by the Biophysics Graduate Studies Committee as the Biophysics Outstanding Student Award winner 2022 for his academic achievements!
Daniel Marzolf has received Honorable Mention for his National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program application. Congratulations Daniel!
Our student Keyton Clayson has won the Louise B. Vetter award. The two annual winners of this award are chosen from the already very select group of Presidential Fellowship…
Keyton Clayson is one of the Autumn 2018 OSU Presidential Fellowship winners. This fellowship provides one full year of support for the final year of a graduate student and is competitively…
Jack Wellmerling was awarded a $5000 first phase training grant by the newly established cystic fibrosis center between OSU and Nationwide Childrens, Cure CF Columbus. This grant will allow him to…
One of our recent graduates, Meng Zhang, and her advisor Dongping Zhong just published her thesis work on characterizing the electron-transfer pathways in DNA photolyases in Science.
The 10th Annual IGP Symposium showcases the research of students belonging to the Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs: Biophysics; Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology …