2026 Winston Fellow Award – ITVS Student Competition
The Winston Fellow Award Program recognizes excellent contributions to vision science by sponsoring an annual $5,000 graduate student award and $2,500 postdoctoral award.
Join us for the Winston Fellow Competition on Friday, May 15th, 2026, at Connor Auditorium, where ITVS Pathway students will compete for the $5,000 Winston Fellow Award.
ITVS Presenters List:
Haneen Alfauri | Rajagopal and Zhou Labs
Electrical & Systems Engineering Program
“OculoTrack: Quantifying reflexive and voluntary oculomotor behavior using OCT retinal tracking”
Chao Ren | Zhou Lab
Imaging Science Program
“Multimodal evaluation of murine uveitis manifestations using dual-waveband OCT“
Ramiz Somjee | Corbo and Holehouse Labs
Computational and Systems Biology Program; MSTP
“Understanding the role of Samd7 in photoreceptor cell identity”
Xiayingfang Song | Kerschensteiner Lab
Biomedical Engineering Program
“A binocular disparity circuit in the superior colliculus for three-dimensional prey capture”
All presentations will be judged on scientific merit by a panel of faculty judges. Details for a reception to celebrate the winners of both the student and postdoc Winston Fellow Awards will be announced.
In-person attendance is strongly encouraged, but virtual attendance is available upon request by contacting Jenna Krizan at krizanj@wustl.edu.
In December 2022, David (A&S ‘74) and Deborah Winston made a generous gift to establish the Winston Fellow Award in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
This unique award will support graduate students who are receiving specific training in vision science through the Interdisciplinary Training in Vision Sciences Pathway. The overall goal of the program is to attract a group of gifted, well-trained biomedical scientists to careers in vision research to continue unlocking the mysteries of eye disease.