Current Recipients
The International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER) is pleased to announce the recipients of 2022-23 IFER Graduate Fellowships for Alternatives to the Use of Animals in Science.

Xingrui Mou
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Sponsor: Dr. Samira Musah
"Engineered in vitro model of the human kidney for blood filtration and disease modeling"
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Alan Kim
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Sponsor: Dr. Lena Smirnova
"Synaptogenesis Assay for Developmental Neurotoxicity Testing in a Human 3D Brain Model"
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Nuria Vilarnau
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Sponsor: Dr. Volker Martin Lauschke
"Mechanistic Analyses of Human Hepatocyte Plasticity"
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Katharina Kroll
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Dr. Jennifer Lewis
"Development of a Perfusable Vascularized 3D-Kidney Organoid on a Chip for Nephrotoxicity Testing"
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Prashant Hariharan
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Sponsor: Dr. Carolyn Harris and Dr. Bonnie Blazer-Yost
"Engineering human choroid plexus-on-a-chip as a non-animal model to advance the understanding of how hydrocephalus alters normal CSF secretion"
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Jason Eades
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Sponsor: Dr. Abhishek Jain
“Replacing animal models of thrombosis with Vein-Chip: A case study evaluating SARS-CoV-2-induced thrombosis and mechanical therapeutics”
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Kaihua (Chloe) Chen
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Sponsor: Dr. James McGrath
“In vitro studies of biophysical and molecular determinants of the blood-brain barrier during sepsis and systemic inflammation”
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Divya Subramanian
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
Sponsor: Dr. David Schmidtke
“Development of a novel in-vitro biomimetic corneal stroma using microfluidics to study corneal wound healing”
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Yansong (Harry) Peng
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Sponsor: Dr. Esak Lee
“A tissue-engineered pancreatic cancer model for dissecting the roles of lymphatic vessels in tumor immunity”
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