Congratulations Nadia Ayad, inaugural recipient of the Outstanding Student Leader of the Year award from UCSF Student Life. Nadia was recognized for her work leading the student group BE-STEM, as well as her work developing initiatives to apply justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion via the GRAD 210 course, and her phenomenal commitment to leadership in this area.
She is currently a student in the Weaver Lab at UCSF working on understanding the role of contractility in BMP signaling with a gastrulation model of hESCs colonies.