IMS members who are selected to receive the IMS New Researcher Travel Award can use the funds for travel to present a paper or a poster at any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting. Any IMS member who will receive their degree in 2026 or has received their Ph.D. within the last five years is eligible to apply.
The 2026 recipients of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards are:
Sohom Bhattacharya, University of Florida
Soham Bonnerjee, University of Chicago
Isaac Gibbs, University of California, Berkeley
Yongyi Guo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lucas Kania, Carnegie Mellon University
Daoyuan Lai, The University of Hong Kong and Columbia University
Mengqi Lou, University of Chicago and Georgia Institute of Technology
Junyoung Park, University of Michigan
Kwangmoon Park, University of Pennsylvania
Jingkun Qiu, Peking University
Giovanni Rebaudo, University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Texas at Austin
Paul Rosa, University of Cambridge
Yilin Song, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and University of Washington
Jianbin Tan, Duke University
Yuxin Tao, Southern University of Science and Technology
Jiayi Tong, Johns Hopkins University
Ian Waudby-Smith, University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University
Kejin Wu, Loyola University Chicago
Qiong Wu, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pennsylvania
Pei Zhang, National Cancer Institute and University of Maryland, College Park
Xinyu Zhang, East China Normal University
Yi Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Zhong Zheng, University of Pennsylvania
Jin Zhu, University of Birmingham
Soham Bonnerjee, University of Chicago
Isaac Gibbs, University of California, Berkeley
Yongyi Guo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lucas Kania, Carnegie Mellon University
Daoyuan Lai, The University of Hong Kong and Columbia University
Mengqi Lou, University of Chicago and Georgia Institute of Technology
Junyoung Park, University of Michigan
Kwangmoon Park, University of Pennsylvania
Jingkun Qiu, Peking University
Giovanni Rebaudo, University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Texas at Austin
Paul Rosa, University of Cambridge
Yilin Song, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and University of Washington
Jianbin Tan, Duke University
Yuxin Tao, Southern University of Science and Technology
Jiayi Tong, Johns Hopkins University
Ian Waudby-Smith, University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University
Kejin Wu, Loyola University Chicago
Qiong Wu, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pennsylvania
Pei Zhang, National Cancer Institute and University of Maryland, College Park
Xinyu Zhang, East China Normal University
Yi Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Zhong Zheng, University of Pennsylvania
Jin Zhu, University of Birmingham