Three winners and six finalists of the 2015 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists have been announced. The awards were created in 2007 and honor postdoctoral scientists from institutions across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. 

Winners are awarded $30,000 each and finalists are awarded $10,000 each in unrestricted funds. 

2015 Blavatnik Regional Awards Winners

Life Sciences                                                       Hani Goodarzi, The Rockefeller University
Chemistry                                                            Arash Nikoubashman, Princeton University 
                                                                           (Now at the University of Mainz)
Physical Sciences&Engineering                          Nicolás Young, Columbia University

2015 Blavatnik Regional Awards Finalists

Life Sciences                                                       Allyson Friedman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 
                                                                           (Now at Hunter College, City University of New York)
                                                                           Ziv Shulman, The Rockefeller University 
                                                                           (Now at the Weizmann Institute of Science)

Chemistry                                                            Xiang Gao, Yale University
                                                                          Jinzhong Lin, Yale University

Physical Sciences & Engineering                          Yang Liu, Princeton University (Now at Stanford University)
                                                                          Dennis Perepelitsa, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Winners and finalists will be honored at New York Academy of Sciences 12th annual Gala held at the Conrad Hotel in New York on November 9th, 2015.