Eighteen from UMMS honored with 2025 Endowment for Basic Sciences Awards

Nine Medical School faculty members and nine research staff members have been recognized for their contributions to teaching and research with Endowment for Basic Sciences (EBS) Awards for 2025.

EBS is a committee comprised of the chairs of the nine basic science departments in the Medical School which meets several times per month to strategize about how to best support the success of the school’s discovery research and graduate education missions. 

Each of the nine UMMS basic science departments select a winner for each award. This year’s recipients received their awards June 12 during a ceremony in the Medical School.

Recipients of EBS Teaching Award (top photo):

• Daniel Beard, Ph.D., Molecular & Integrative Physiology
• Stephanie Bielas, Ph.D., Human Genetics
• John Donnelly, Ph.D., Learning Health Sciences
• Mara Duncan, Ph.D., Cell & Developmental Biology
• Michael Holinstat, Ph.D., Pharmacology
• Adam Lauring, M.D., Ph.D., Microbiology & Immunology
• Xueding Wang, Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
• Chase Weidmann, Ph.D., Biological Chemistry
• Anthony J. Wing, Ph.D., Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics

Recipients of EBS Research Staff Award (bottom photo):

• Jane Coffey, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
• Becky Dresselhouse-Nauss, Cell & Developmental Biology
• Daniel Esckilsen, Biological Chemistry
• Gregory Farnum, Computational Medicine & Informatics
• Lisa Ferguson, Learning Health Sciences
• Katie McBride, Microbiology & Immunology
• Young Nam Park, Human Genetics
• Miriam Stevens, Biomedical Engineering
• Bo Zhao, Pharmacology

Bethany B. Moore, Ph.D., the Nancy Walls Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Phyllis I. Hanson, M.D., Ph.D., the Minor J. Coon Collegiate Professor and chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry, have co-led EBS since 2023.

“One of the great joys each year is celebrating the contributions that our research staff members make to our scientific impact and that our faculty make in our educational mission. The EBS yearly awards are an opportunity to recognize one member of each department each year for these important activities,” Moore and Hanson say.

More information on the EBS Awards, including past winners, is available here.