“The thirty recipients, called ‘Fellows’, were selected for their potential to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic field, and were selected from a pool of 1,443 applicants,†said a statement on the fellowship website.
The fellows will receive up to $90,000 in funding for the graduate program of their choice.
Daisy M. Soros and Paul Soros (1926-2013) founded the Fellowship program in 1997, which has awarded more than 550 Fellowships over its 18-year history. The couple, both Hungarian immigrants, has contributed $75 million to the organization’s charitable trust and is the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants.
Suhas Rao, MD/Ph.D., Stanford University
Born in Massachusetts, Suhas is the son of Indian immigrants who came to the US in the 1980s. While working at the Broad Institute as a Harvard undergraduate, Suhas became invigorated by the potential of the ‘genomics revolution’ to drive forward a new age in precision medicine and patient care.
After graduating from Harvard, Suhas continued his research on the three-dimensional structure of the genome at the Broad Institute and Baylor College of Medicine, resulting in two co-first authored publications in Cell and PNAS. This work, which resulted in the highest resolution maps of the 3D genome to date and revealed numerous structural principles of genome folding, was featured inTIME, NPR, The Atlantic, Forbes, and Scientific American, and was lauded on the floor of the US House of Representatives.
Currently, Suhas is pursuing an MD/Ph.D. at Stanford University School of Medicine. As a future physician-scientist, he hopes to tackle the fundamental problem of deciphering the information contained in the genome and to translate that into more precise modalities of patient care.
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