Meet 2026 Award Recipient
Miranda Wilson
Miranda received her Bachelor of Science degree from Seattle University in 2019, where she majored in Cell and Molecular Biology and minored in Chemistry. She then completed a post-baccalaureate program at the Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research prior to entering the PhD in Biomedical Sciences program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2020. While at ISMMS, Miranda was a member of the Mount Sinai Green Team, which works to identify and provide solutions for improving the environmental and ecological sustainability practices across the ISMMS and Mount Sinai health system. Miranda also participated in the interview process for the PhD in Biomedical Sciences program, serving as both a student interviewer and student admissions committee representative. During her PhD training, Miranda received a 3 year, NICHD-funded F31 Parent Diversity Grant in 2023 to support her research. Additionally, she attended and presented her work at several national and international meetings, receiving the FEBS Letters “Best Talk” award at the 9th Vertebrate Sex Determination Meeting in 2023 and NSF Rising Scientist award at The Allied Genetics Conference in 2024. She delivered the keynote talk at the Developmental Biology New York Undergraduate Conference in 2023. A portion of her work was published in Nature Communications in 2024, with Miranda as first author. Following this publication, she and her advisor were invited to write a mini review that was published in Biochemical Society Transactions in 2025. A second first author manuscript describing the remainder of her dissertation work is currently under preparation for submission to a peer-reviewed journal. Miranda would like to thank her friends and the faculty at ISMMS, specifically those in the SCBRM department and DRS training area, for their encouragement and support over the last six years. She would also like to thank her colleagues at the ISMMS Microscopy Core for their technical help and friendship over the years. Miranda will graduate with her PhD in May 2026 and continue in academia, starting a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital in June 2026.