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Leading Edge is an initiative to improve the gender diversity of life sciences faculty http://leadingedgesymposium.org/

Leading Edge Fellows Program

Excited and extremely honored to join this amazing group of professionals!

I am incredibly excited to join this vibrant community

Super excited to be a part of this fantastic group! ✨🔬🧫

So excited to be a part of this amazing community!

So excited to be a part of this incredible group! 🐭🥰

Grateful to be part of this amazing community that I've looked up to for years!

So excited to be welcomed into such a supportive community of amazing scientists!! Cheers to good people and good science 🧬 👏 🎉

Congratulations to all the new Leading Edge Fellows! Wonderful tribute to Zara Weinberg's legacy as a scientist and advocate. ❤️ @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social success is truly a testament to the power of lifting up early career scientists! Here's to many, MANY more years of fellows! 🎉

So incredibly honored and excited to be a part of leading edge! Joining the ranks of all these incredible scientists has me truly humbled. To be part of Zara’s cohort when she was so instrumental to me in my first few years at UCSF makes me feel all the things.

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Honored to be part of the 2026 Leading Edge Fellows Zara Weinberg Cohort! Thanks to all my mentors and collaborators for their support. Looking forward to being part of this amazing community of scientists!

Veronika Kondev

Isabella Gaeta

Jess Moore

Sierra Marable, PhD

Siegenthaler Lab

Mia Konjikusic, PhD

Deirdre Logsdon, PhD

Alex Wells

Ines Patop

We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/

Leading Edge Fellows Program