Hwa Lab Achievements & Awards

2026

Tarun Tyagi was selected to present a special seminar on Academic Writing and Publishing for Yale students and faculty as part of the Modern Instructor Program, organized by the Yale Postdoc Association.
Congratulations to Yurika Ishibe, an undergraduate summer trainee in the Hwa and Faustino labs, on receiving the Yale College First-Year Summer Research Fellowship Award in the Sciences and Engineering.
Tarun Tyagi presented his research at AHA Vascular Discovery 2026.
Kanika Jain appointed as a member of the ATVB Kenneth M. Brinkhous Early Career Investigator in Thrombosis Award Committee.

Congratulations to Sean Gu on receiving the NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (K08)!!!
Congratulations to Kanika Jain on receiving the American Heart Association Transformational Project Award for her research on platelet proteostasis and cardiovascular aging.
Congratulations to Sean Gu on receiving an Early-Career Scientific Research Grant from the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies for his research on Platelet Immune Mechanisms in Sickle Cell Disease (https://www.aabb.org/foundation/early-career-scientific-research-grants-program/scientific-research-grant-award-recipients)
Congratulations to Kanika Jain on her appointment as an Editorial Board Member for Circulation Research.
Congratulations to Kanika Jain on being selected as a finalist for the AHA Vascular Discovery Kenneth M. Brinkhous Early Career Investigator Award in Thrombosis. (https://youtu.be/jr9NnQiZD8Y?si=zAJQxx-biX4tBWiQ)!!!
Kanika Jain appointed as a member of the ATVB & PVD Vascular Discovery Program Committee of the Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.
Congratulations to Kanika Jain on being invited to speak at the Emerging Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar at the Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine.
Congratulations to Kanika Jain on receiving the Milstone Award for Thrombosis (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/drs-kanika-jain-and-kaixin-liang-receive-2025-jh-milstone-award-in-hematology/ )

Congratulations to Tarun Tyagi on receiving a 2024 Milstone Fund Grant (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/dr-tarun-tyagi-receives-2024-jh-milstone-award-in-hematology/)
Kanika Jain gave an oral presentation at the Yale Vascular Biology Retreat.
Congratulations to Tarun Tyagi on being selected as a finalist for the Blavatnik Accelerator Award in the biotech theme and delivering an oral pitch at the Yale Innovation Summit 2024.
Congratulations to Kanika Jain on her appointment to the Circulation Research Early Career Editorial Board.
Congratulations to Tarun Tyagi on having his ‘scientific artwork’ selected for the Yale art exhibition organized by Yale PAPS.
Congratulations to Kanika Jain on being selected to the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Early Career Editorial Board.
Kanika Jain selected for the YCCEH Leadership and Management Skills Course for Postdoctoral Trainees.

Congratulations to Kanika Jain on receiving the American Heart Association Career Development Award to support her studies on platelets in Alzheimer’s disease (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/jain-receives-aha-career-development-award/)
Tarun Tyagi’s research was featured by Yale News in Discoveries & Impact (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/discoveries-and-impact-january-2023/)
Congratulations to Tarun Tyagi on receiving the Forward Fund Oral Talk Award at the SITC Spring Scientific Meeting in Denver (https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/tyagi-selected-for-sitc-spring-scientific-abstract-award/)
Congratulations to Tarun Tyagi and John Hwa on winning the inaugural YCVRC Ping Pong Tournament.

Congratulations to Kanika Jain for the invited talk at the Symposium on Cellular and Metabolic Pathways in Neurodegeneration (CT Early Career Researcher Symposium)
Sean Gu received a travel award to present at the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) annual meeting
Kanika Jain gave an oral presentation at the Yale Vascular Biology Retreat.
Hwa Lab members Kanika Jain, Vivian Gu, Sean Gu, and Tarun Tyagi presented their work at the Gordon Research Conference on Hemostasis.

Congratulations to Tarun Tyagi on receiving the Research Award 2021 for his abstract at the FOCIS Annual Meeting.
Congratulations to Kanika Jain for the Trainee Fellowship Award at the Keystone Neurodegenerative Diseases: Genes, Mechanisms and Therapeutics Symposia.
Congratulations to Sean Gu for the JH Milstone Award in Coagulation Research from the Yale Cooperative Center of Excellence in Hematology (YCCEH)

Hannah Melchinger, a Yale undergraduate trainee in the lab, presented her work at the 2020 Yale Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Congratulations to Kanika Jain on receiving the Larry Oberley Young Investigator Award for her work at the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine 26th Annual Conference.
Congratulations to Sean Gu on receiving the Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award from the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists.

Hannah Melchinger joins the lab as part of the KUH Undergraduate Summer Research Program at Yale University