Funding, Honors, and Awards – Yu-Chieh David Chen

Current

2024-2029 K99/R00 NIH Pathway to Independence Awards [Award number: K99EY035757] ($1,055,664)

Past

2021-2024 F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award [Award number: F32EY032750] ($200,946)
2023 Inaugural NYU Postdoctoral Research and Professional Development Support Grants ($2500) [pdf]
2019 Dissertation Year Program Fellowship, UCR ($7200) [pdf]
2016-2018 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Student Research Fellowship ($86,000)
- I am one of the 20 fellows selected in 2016 among 344 students in 57 PhD-granting institutions in the US. [Media 1] [Media 2]
2018 Dissertation Research Grant, UCR ($900)
2016 Sigma XI Grants-in-Aid of Research ($700) [pdf, pg2]

2020-present (Postdoc in Claude Desplan’s lab at NYU)

2024 Travel Award, 2024 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting ($500)
2024 Professional Development Scholarship, Skills for Health and Research Professionals (SHARP) Training, Columbia University ($497.5)
2024 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, NYU ($500) [Certificate] [NYU 2023-2024 College Teaching Award Winners poster]
- The only Biology Department awardee among all 30 CAS departments since 2017.

2013-2019 (Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UCR)

2019 Ernest Propes Endowed Graduate Fellowship, UCR ($600)
2019 Gill Symposium Travel Award ($500) [pdf]
2019 DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics, Genetics Society of America ($1000) [Media 1] [pdf]
2019 Earle C. Anthony Travel Award, UCR ($1000)
2019 AChemS Meeting Childcare Grant ($480)
2019 AChemS Meeting Student Travel Award ($400)
2018 Gill Symposium Travel Award ($516.54) [pdf]
2018 Yin Chin Scholarship, Yin Chin Foundation of USA ($10,000) [Media 1] [Media 2] [pdf]
2018 International Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa Alumni in Southern California ($2,000) [pdf, pg12] [pdf 2]
2018 James Merrill and Adeline Wallace Annual Prize, UCR ($2,166)
2017 Earle C. Anthony Travel Award, UCR ($500) (declined)
2013 Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award, UCR

2011-2013 (M.Sc. in Molecular and Cellular Biology at NTU)

2013 Admission Ph.D. Biology program in University of Pennsylvania
- With full financial support (declined for studying at UCR)
2013 Admission to Physiology Graduate Training Program in University of Wisconsin, Madison
- With full financial support (declined for studying at UCR)
2013 Admission to Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences in Washington University in St. Louis
- With full financial support ( declined for studying at UCR)
2013 Admission to both Ph.D. Neurobiology and Cell and Molecular Biology programs in Duke University
- With international chancellor’s scholarship (declined for studying at UCR)
2012 Poster Excellence, Professor Jung-Yaw Lin Academic Education Foundation, Taiwan
- The only awardee with a master degree
2012 Poster Excellence, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, NTU
- The second place in the poster competition among 29 master students

2006-2010 (B.Sc. in Life Sciences and Entomology at NTU)

2010 Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society Honorary Membership, Taiwan
- Top 1% students in the College of Life Science for the excellent academic performance
2010 Dean’s Award (top 10% in department), College of Life Sciences, NTU
- Valedictorian and the first place in the graduating class
2007 – 2010 Presidential Award (7 times), NTU
- Top 5% students in the class for each semester
2009 – 2010 Study Scholarship (twice), Department of Life Sciences, NTU