Celebrating the Winners of BioRender’s 2025 Grant Support Initiative
1670
Submissions to the Grant Support Initiative
524
Institutions represented
$1.01B
Research Dollars represented
Recognizing 60 selected scientists for their creativity, resilience, and commitment to advancing science.
Featured Winners of Our Grant Support Packages
Hear the stories behind their inspiring research.
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"For me, this research is not just an academic pursuit — it is deeply personal. When I was nine years old, my mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer. In my lifetime, I have seen it evolve into a disease that is now considered eradicable. That transformation is living proof that science makes a difference."
At a moment when trust in science is at historic lows, I believe we must work harder than ever to make science clear, human, and accessible. BioRender has been essential in helping me do just that. It helped me secure one of the highest possible grant scores — and more importantly, it helps me share my science with hope and clarity.
Katherine Y. Tossas
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Policy
Virginia Commonwealth University
"I knew I wanted to develop vaccines for multidrug resistant bacteria as a freshman in college. My earliest research experiences increased my awareness of the growing threat so called “superbugs” pose to global human health and the desperate need for new strategies...It is incredible to be living my dream, working at the frontier of translational research to create vaccines and therapeutics that may be critical interventions in the fight against multidrug resistant pathogens."
A picture is worth a thousand words; BioRender figures are worth at least five thousand.
Elisabet Bjanes
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, San Diego
"I have worked closely with clinicians who provided primary tumor samples, and through this experience I witnessed the pain and challenges faced by patients. These interactions deeply motivated me to devote myself to science and to advance cancer immunotherapy with the goal of developing treatments that are both effective and affordable for all patients."
I use BioRender regularly for publications and grant applications because it allows me to create clear, professional, and visually engaging figures. Its intuitive interface and wide range of scientific icons make it easy to illustrate complex concepts, which greatly improves how I communicate my science to both expert and broad audiences.
Yan-Ruide Li
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Los Angeles
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"As an international student from Saint Lucia and a first-generation researcher, my path into science wasn’t straightforward. What drives me now is the chance to show that curiosity, persistence, and community support can open doors and create opportunities for others who may not see themselves represented in science."
I use BioRender to create clear, consistent schematics...It helps me distill complex ideas—like connectomes, activity recordings, and perturbations—into accessible visuals for presentations and manuscripts.
Quilee Simeon
PhD Candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"In my proposal, the BioRender figure serves as a central visual anchor...The figure makes my primary hypothesis immediately apparent and provides a clear roadmap for our proposed experiments. It significantly strengthens my case for the award by building reviewer confidence and making my proposal more memorable."
Biorender has made it easier for me to communicate my science in an accessible way.
Mumtaz Shirin
PhD Candidate
University of Utah
Supporting >$1B in Awarded and Proposed Research Funding
Meet some of the researchers who are turning clear communication into funding success.
Brittany Butts
Emory University
"I use Biorender for many things, including figures for grant applications, manuscripts, presentations, and participant-facing documents. It has allowed me to graphically represent ideas, concepts, and results in a way that anyone can understand. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words."
Brittany Butts
Emory University
"I use Biorender for many things, including figures for grant applications, manuscripts, presentations, and participant-facing documents. It has allowed me to graphically represent ideas, concepts, and results in a way that anyone can understand. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words."
Joann Diray Arce
Boston Children's Hospital
"During the pandemic, we relied on BioRender to create simple but powerful “cheat sheets”. These visuals became lifelines for frontline teams in a moment of chaos...Later, BioRender helped us turn study findings into multiple high-impact publications, ensuring the science could be shared quickly with the world."
Joann Diray Arce
Boston Children's Hospital
"During the pandemic, we relied on BioRender to create simple but powerful “cheat sheets”. These visuals became lifelines for frontline teams in a moment of chaos...Later, BioRender helped us turn study findings into multiple high-impact publications, ensuring the science could be shared quickly with the world."
Verima Pereira
UC San Francisco
"As a researcher, I am passionate about translating complex biological mechanisms into visual stories that can spark curiosity and understanding. BioRender's intuitive design tools save time compared to traditional illustration methods, allowing me to focus on the science while ensuring my figures are visually engaging and publication-ready."
Verima Pereira
UC San Francisco
"As a researcher, I am passionate about translating complex biological mechanisms into visual stories that can spark curiosity and understanding. BioRender's intuitive design tools save time compared to traditional illustration methods, allowing me to focus on the science while ensuring my figures are visually engaging and publication-ready."
David Barker
Rutgers University
"My lab officially opened just before the COVID shutdowns, which made collaboration especially challenging. BioRender became an essential solution—it gave us a common platform to design, revise, and communicate our science together, even when we couldn’t be in the same room."
David Barker
Rutgers University
"My lab officially opened just before the COVID shutdowns, which made collaboration especially challenging. BioRender became an essential solution—it gave us a common platform to design, revise, and communicate our science together, even when we couldn’t be in the same room."
Jing Wang
Duke University
"I use BioRender to create high-quality scientific illustrations that clearly convey complex concepts. It helps make my figures more professional and accessible, allowing readers to better understand my research. It is an invaluable tool for effectively communicating science."
Jing Wang
Duke University
"I use BioRender to create high-quality scientific illustrations that clearly convey complex concepts. It helps make my figures more professional and accessible, allowing readers to better understand my research. It is an invaluable tool for effectively communicating science."
Marwa Zafarullah
Stanford University
"I use BioRender to create clear, visually appealing figures for presentations, posters, and manuscripts. It’s an invaluable tool for communicating complex scientific concepts in a way that’s accessible and engaging to diverse audiences."
Marwa Zafarullah
Stanford University
"I use BioRender to create clear, visually appealing figures for presentations, posters, and manuscripts. It’s an invaluable tool for communicating complex scientific concepts in a way that’s accessible and engaging to diverse audiences."
Osayomore Marie LaCour
University of Georgia
"BioRender images serve as a visual roadmap that captures the project at a glance across broad audiences. It supports the ability to communicate science and to close the gaps in understanding across a multitude of fields."
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Osayomore Marie LaCour
University of Georgia
"BioRender images serve as a visual roadmap that captures the project at a glance across broad audiences. It supports the ability to communicate science and to close the gaps in understanding across a multitude of fields."
Sade Clayton
Washington University in St. Louis
"Being an early-career researcher in the ever-changing funding landscape of academia has been challenging. Biorender has been essential for my grant and manuscript preparations for 5+ years. The vast array of icons and templates, and the ease of customization, has streamlined and simplified my science communication."
Sade Clayton
Washington University in St. Louis
"Being an early-career researcher in the ever-changing funding landscape of academia has been challenging. Biorender has been essential for my grant and manuscript preparations for 5+ years. The vast array of icons and templates, and the ease of customization, has streamlined and simplified my science communication."
Ruogu Tang
University of Delaware
"As a new scientist, I am trying to adopt novel tools, such as BioRender, to accelerate my research work. BioRender significantly helped me visualize my working flow and present our research outcomes."
Ruogu Tang
University of Delaware
"As a new scientist, I am trying to adopt novel tools, such as BioRender, to accelerate my research work. BioRender significantly helped me visualize my working flow and present our research outcomes."
Rachel Perry
Yale University
"BioRender is always my go-to software to easily create schematic figures to represent the different behavioral tasks and experimental designs that we use in my lab."
Rachel Perry
Yale University
"BioRender is always my go-to software to easily create schematic figures to represent the different behavioral tasks and experimental designs that we use in my lab."
Catherina Mobini
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"I use BioRender to transform the complex genetic tools we innovate in the lab into clear, easy-to-understand schematics, enabling me to more effectively communicate the 'why' and 'how' behind my research."
Catherina Mobini
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"I use BioRender to transform the complex genetic tools we innovate in the lab into clear, easy-to-understand schematics, enabling me to more effectively communicate the 'why' and 'how' behind my research."
Najeong Emmeline Kim
Case Western Reserve University
"I use BioRender to create diagrams illustrating how innate immune signaling pathways operate and trigger inflammatory responses. It helps me convey complex mechanisms in a clear, visually engaging way."
Najeong Emmeline Kim
Case Western Reserve University
"I use BioRender to create diagrams illustrating how innate immune signaling pathways operate and trigger inflammatory responses. It helps me convey complex mechanisms in a clear, visually engaging way."
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