In 2001, an annual award for outstanding postdoctoral researchers from the labs of MDRS members was established in the name of the founder of the society,Laird Cermak.
In 2017, this award was extended to also honor Suzanne Corkin and her legacy in championing women in science.
Each year, the postdocs selected to receive this award are invited toattend and present at the MDRS annual meeting.
Laird Cermak
1942-1999
Suzanne Corkin
1937-2016
Year
Cermak/Corkin Awardees
2021
Zoe Ngo
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Kevin Madore
Stanford University
2020
Buddhika Bellana
Johns Hopkins University
Alexa Tompary
University of Pennsylvania
2019
James Antony
Princeton University
Elizabeth Goldfarb
Yale University
2018
David Clewett
New York University
Jessica Robin
Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest
2017
Raphael Kaplan
University College London
Anna Schapiro
Harvard Medical School
2016
Matthias Gruber
University of California, Davis
Daniela Palombo
Boston University School of Medicine
2015
Aidan Horner
University College London
Maureen Ritchey
University of California, Davis
2014
Deepu Murty
New York University
Rosanna Olsen
Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest
2013
Rosie Cowell
University of California San Diego
Jordan Poppenk
Princeton University
2012
Jarrod Lewis-Peacock
Princeton University
Bernhard Staresina
Stanford University, MRC Cambridge, and Donders Institute