The Hartwell Foundation recently announced its 2023 class of Hartwell Fellows, which provides funding to US citizens for postdoctoral training in biomedical science at select research institutions in the United States. The Fellowships offer support for two years at $50,000 direct cost per year to support scientists in the early stages of biomedical research careers by enabling them to pursue further specialized training as part of their professional development.
For each Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award that a participating institution receives in the annual Hartwell competition, the institution may designate one postdoctoral candidate of their choice from areas of biomedical science that exemplify the values of the Foundation. With ten (10) Hartwell Investigators in the Class of 2023 representing eight (8) institutions, eight Fellowships were awarded. Erin Brown, MD, Associate Professor Pediatric Surgery, University of California, Davis received one Individual Biomedical Research Award made to and therefore UC Davis received funding for one Fellowship, designating Sarah L. Olguin, Ph.D., a behavioral neuroscientist in the lab of Jill Silverman, Ph.D.
Sarah seeks to design and implement effective translational science to characterize and treat rare neurodevelopmental disorders associated with intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders, and pediatric epilepsy. Sarah is planning to use her fellowship to expand her work in single gene mutation models of pediatric epilepsy using electroencephalogram (EEG). Additionally, Sarah will receive specialized training in bioinformatics for handling of large EEG data sets.