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Phil Tsai (MS '92, PhD '95)

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Phil Tsai (MS ’92, PhD ’95) has been appointed as the Chief Technical Officer of Immunome, Inc. With nearly three decades of expertise in product development, process optimization, and manufacturing, especially in antibody-drug conjugates, Dr. Tsai will play a pivotal role in advancing Immunome’s mission of developing targeted cancer therapies. His distinguished career includes leadership roles at Seagen and Pfizer, contributing significantly to the commercialization of innovative biologics.

Cynthia Chai (PhD '21)

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Cynthia Chai (PhD ’21) was recently selected to receive a 2024 Konishi Neuroethology Research Award from the International Society for Neuroethology. This early career award will provide funding for her postdoctoral research in Gwyneth Card’s (PhD’09) lab at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. This award is significant to her as a proud alumna of Caltech, where Masakazu (Mark) Konishi and colleagues performed seminal research on auditory localization in barn owls.

Jeff Blair (BS '78)

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Jeff Blair (BS ’78) has written the story of his two-year leave-of-absence (1971-1973) from Caltech. Recollections of a Grunt in America’s Draft Resistance Movement was recently published and posted online in The Journal of Aichi Gakuin University Humanities & Sciences.

Jack Falk, (BS '75

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Jack Falk, (BS ’75) a Caltech alumnus, curated “The International Museum of No Smoking Signs” at Tigard Library. The exhibit features no smoking signs from around the world that Falk has collected over the years. It opened on March 4 and will run until the end of the month, showcasing cultural diversity.

Ajit Yoganathan (PhD '78)

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Ajit Yoganathan (PhD ’78) received the Heart Valve Society Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022 for significant impact in heart valve research.

Jack Kaye (PhD '82)

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Jack Kaye (PhD ’82) received NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal and a Presidential Rank Award (Meritorious) in 2022.

Phillip An (BS '18)

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Phillip An (BS ’18) was recognized on the 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 List in Consumer Technology.

Deborah Chung (BS '73, MS '73)

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Deborah Chung (BS ’73, MS ’73) was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2023.

Paramsothy Jayakumar MD (MS'84, PhD'87)

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Paramsothy Jayakumar MD (MS’84, PhD’87) received the 2023 NATO STO Excellence Award for work on the Next-Generation NATO Reference Mobility Model.

Steven Barker (MS '68, PhD '72)

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Steven Barker (MS ’68, PhD ’72) received a lifetime achievement award from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research.

Christopher Lacenere (MS '00, PhD '06)

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Christopher Lacenere (MS ’00, PhD ’06) was elevated to the position of partner at Sunstein LLP.

Nader Engheta, MS '79, PhD '82

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Nader Engheta (MS ’79, PhD ’82) received the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Silviu Covrig Dusa (PhD '05)

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Silviu Covrig Dusa (PhD ’05) received the DOE Early Career Award in 2012. A research highlight of his achievements was published on the DOE Office of Science website on January 29, 2024.

France Anne-Dominic Córdova, DAA (PhD '79

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France Anne-Dominic Córdova, DAA (PhD ’79) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Stephen Weiner (PhD '77)

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Stephen Weiner (PhD ’77) has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Andrea Ghez (PhD ’92)

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Andrea Ghez (PhD ’92) receiving her Nobel Prize citation and medal on Dec. 9, 2020 in Beverly Hills.

Doris Tsao (BS ’96)

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Caltech professor Doris Tsao (BS ’96) was selected as a 2018 MacArthur Fellow for her pioneering work in systems neuroscience. Read more.

Elaine Y. Hsiao, PhD (PhD ’13)

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Elaine Y. Hsiao, PhD (PhD ’13) was named a winner of the 2022 Innovators in Science Award for Gastroenterology by Takeda and the New York Academy of Sciences for her work on work on how the gut microbiome influences brain and behavior, changing thinking about the cause of neurological conditions including autism and epilepsy. Read more.

Alex V. Filippenko, DAA (PhD ’84)

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Alex V. Filippenko, DAA (PhD ’84), Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, has been named recipient of the prestigious 2022 Education Prize by the American Astronomical Society. The AAS Education Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of the public, students, and/or the next generation of professional astronomers. Read more.

Tetsuo Yamane [right], PhD (BS '56, PhD '60)

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Tetsuo Yamane [right], PhD (BS ’56, PhD ’60), former director of the Molecular Biology Department of the Amazon Biotechnology Center and former director of the Science Development Department of the Butantan Institute, has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan for his promotion of academic exchanges between Japan and Brazil. Yamane is 94 years old and still works full time in Manaus, Brazil. The Order of the Rising Sun is the highest civilian honor awarded by the Japanese government.

William L. Ko, PhD (MS '59, PhD '63)

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William L. Ko, PhD (MS ’59, PhD ’63) formulated Ko Displacement Theory for transforming distributed wing surface strains into wing deformed shape for flight safety applications (US Patent No.7,520,176 B1).

Grant Venerable, Jr. (BS ’32)

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Grant Venerable, Jr. (BS ’32) was the first Black graduate at Caltech. He studied civil engineering and would later own and operate an eraser-manufacturing company in the Los Angeles Area.