"Liz should win this award because even though she is in the final push for her PhD thesis, she continues to give her amazing positive support to everyone else in the lab. She is great at explaining complex ideas in simple terms, she is a super multiplexer, keeps other projects on schedule, she organizes lab chores, helps accomplish other people's projects, posts to Instagram (@nature.neuroscience.phd) about women in STEM, oh and developed two new lectures for Graduate Biochemistry. She is definitely our lab hero - and she just got engaged! Congrats!"

Nominated by Chris Leonard, Leonard Lab/Dept of Physiology, New York Medical College, USA