Beckman Foundation Announces 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees

Ten Researchers Selected to Receive $6M in Total Science Funding for Cutting-edge Research

IRVINE, Calif., June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced today the selection of its 2025 class of Beckman Young Investigator Awardees from U.S. colleges and universities. The awardees exemplify the Foundation's mission of supporting the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open new avenues of research in science. They were selected from a pool of approximately 300 applicants after a three-part review led by a panel of scientific experts.

This year's award offers $600,000 in funding over four years to each of the following researchers:

Charles Bou-Nader, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine
Ezra Clark, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
Santiago Correa, PhD, Columbia University
James Gaynor, PhD, Northwestern University
Liangliang Hao, PhD, Boston University
Alice Kunin, PhD, Princeton University
Timothy Machado, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Kayla Nguyen, PhD, University of Oregon
Priya Sivaramakrishnan, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Carlos Taboada, PhD, Vanderbilt University

"Our newest cohort of young researchers are involved in high risk-high reward work that will address wide-ranging challenges over the next four years, from developing new methods to directly probe chirality-induced spin selectivity to imaging the role of topological surface states in efficient heterogeneous catalysis to integrating synthetic and natural nanomaterials for next generation immunotherapy, and more. We are thrilled to welcome each of these excellent scientists into the Beckman 'family,' to facilitate the launch of these extremely innovative projects, and to witness them achieve their full potential," shared Dr. Anne Hultgren, Executive Director of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

About the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Located in Irvine, California, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation supports researchers and nonprofit research institutions in making the next generation of breakthroughs in chemistry and the life sciences. Founded in 1977 by 20^th century scientific instrumentation pioneer Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, the Foundation supports United States institutions and young scientists whose creative, high-risk, and interdisciplinary research will lead to innovations and new tools and methods for scientific discovery. For more information, visit beckman-foundation.org.

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