{"id":262,"date":"2018-08-20T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/mbgp\/?page_id=262"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:13:26","slug":"the-karpay-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/mbgp\/seminar-series\/the-karpay-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/karpay-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology<\/a>, established in 2010 to honor the memory of <a href=\"http:\/\/csb.vanderbilt.edu\/karpay\/karpaybio.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Anne Karpay<\/a>, recognizes one senior graduate student who is a well-rounded colleague and scientist, who is collaborative and collegial and who has performed exceptional research in the field of structural biology. Dr. Karpay exemplified each characteristic and demonstrated a passion for science, friendship and life in general.\u00a0The winner then presents a research talk as part of the award ceremony.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both\">Previous recipients of The Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology<\/h6>\n<table id=\"karpay\" style=\"height: 612px\" width=\"869\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"32\">Year<\/th>\n<th width=\"144\">Recipient<\/th>\n<th width=\"407\">Research Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2026<\/td>\n<td>Kate Clowes Moster (Sanders)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Avoiding traffic jams: Correcting KCNQ1 mistrafficking and navigating grad school&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2025<\/td>\n<td>Jenny Tran (Breann Brown)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Communication Runs in Our Blood: From Proteins to People&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2024<\/td>\n<td>Eli McDonald (Meiler\/Plate)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;CFTR Folding: Started from the Translocon Now We Here&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2023<\/td>\n<td>Ivette Perez (Iverson)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Arrestin Development, next episode?&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2022<\/td>\n<td>Noah Bradley (Eichman)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;DNA Damage: If You Break It, You Fix It&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2021<\/td>\n<td>James Hutchison (Sanders)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;We&#8217;re All in This Together: Choosing the Right RAFTing Partners&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2020<\/td>\n<td>Justin Marinko (Sanders)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;There and Back Again: A Protein\u2019s Tale&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2019<\/td>\n<td>Caleigh Azumaya (Nakagawa)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Grad School: It\u2019s a TRP&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<td>Meredith Frazier (Jackson)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Along for the ride: structural and functional studies of AP4 and its accessory protein tepsin&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2017<\/td>\n<td>Norie Sugitani (Chazin)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Scaffolding branches: XPA in DNA repair and graduate school survival&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td>Qiuyan Chen (Iverson\/Gurevich)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Arrestin activation? Just press the right buttons&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2015<\/td>\n<td>Kathleen F. Mittendorf (Sanders)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Pigs in a Blanket on My Rafting Trip: Membrane Proteins and Neurodegeneration&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2014<\/td>\n<td>Nicole Chumbler (Lacy)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Who&#8217;s the boss? Structural investigations of <em>Clostridium difficile<\/em> Toxin A autoprocessing&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2013<\/td>\n<td>Paul Barrett (Sanders)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Where&#8217;s My Doughnut? A Link Between Cholesterol and Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2012<\/td>\n<td>Chris A. Brosey (Chazin)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Floating away on a Brownian waltz: Uncovering the architecture and dynamics of ssDNA-binding by Replication Protein A&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td>Yoana Dimitrova (Chazin)<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Taming the beast: TBL1 and adventures in structural biology and graduate school&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Please help us continue this tradition. Give to the Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology Endowment Fund.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givecampus.com\/campaigns\/57419\/donations\/new?designation=thekarpayawardinstructuralbiology&amp;a=9829366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3791\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2022\/04\/19203900\/GiveNow-button01-300x94.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a>To give via credit card, click the &#8216;Give Now&#8217; button.<\/p>\n<p>For more ways to give, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/karpay-award\/karpay-giving\/\">Karpay Giving page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dr. Anne Karpay Award in Structural Biology, established in 2010 to honor the memory of Dr. Anne Karpay, recognizes one senior graduate student who is a well-rounded colleague and scientist, who is collaborative and collegial and who has performed exceptional research in the field of structural biology. 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