Meet the 2026 @statnews.com Wunderkinds. This annual recognition spotlights early-career researchers across North America who are doing exceptional work to advance science and medicine.

Meet the 2026 @statnews.com Wunderkinds. This annual recognition spotlights early-career researchers across North America who are doing exceptional work to advance science and medicine.
Meet Elliot Akama-Garren — one of this year's #STATWunderkinds https://www.statnews.com/wunderkinds/elliot-akama-garren/
Meet Leah Pierson - one of this year's #STATWunderkinds https://www.statnews.com/wunderkinds/leah-pierson/
So excited to be selected one of STAT’s 2026 Wunderkinds. Huge thanks to my PhD advisors @VamsiMootha & Ben Neale + all my incredible mentors & colleagues. It's a huge honor to be in this inspiring cohort of scholars! @statnews #STATWunderkinds
Very happy to have been named a 2026 STAT Wunderkind, alongside an incredible cohort of researchers and doctors!
Postdoctoral Fellow Baldeep Dhaliwal, PhD, Named Among #STATWunderkinds for 2026 - Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics News bioethics.jhu.edu/news-events/...
Congratulations to K. Lisa Yang ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow @andreadevarda.bsky.social who has been named one of the 2026 @statnews.com #STATWunderkinds! 👏🎉
🔗 Read more: www.statnews.com/wunderkinds/andrea-de-varda/
🏅 Austin Waters is a 2026 STAT Wunderkind!
He studies who survives cancer and how policy affects LGBTQ people's health, and has taken work we had just begun—like food insecurity—further and faster.
So fortunate to mentor him.
Congrats to lab alum @ragini-bhargava.bsky.social @cityofhope.bsky.social for being named one of the 2026 #STATWunderkinds
Congrats to our Baldeep K Dhaliwal! selected by @statnews.com as one of this year's #STATWunderkinds, recognizing unheralded heroes of science and medicine! Link for more about her work keeping community health workers safe during disease outbreaks & more: www.statnews.com/wunderkinds/...
Congratulations to Broadies Yasha Ektefaie, @rahulg603.bsky.social, and Mohamed El-Brolosy on being named 2026 #STATWunderkinds!
Wunderbar to be named a STAT Wunderkind! 🎉🐦🧠
Honored to be recognized with this group of outstanding early-career researchers
@statnews.com #STATWunderkinds
Thanks to all my mentors and colleagues and to
@ericboodman.bsky.social for the lovely profile!
This year, as in past years, we’ve found inspiring stories and innovative research. All are blazing new trails as they attempt to answer some of the biggest questions in science and medicine.
Meet the 2026 #STATWunderkinds!
https://www.statnews.com/wunderkinds/
🎉Congratulations to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute's Mahnum Shahzad for being selected by @statnews.com as one of this year's #STATWunderkinds. This recognition honors early-career scientists & doctors shaping the future of medicine.
Learn more about Mahnum’s story: tinyurl.com/y7nnka3s
Congratulations to Duke's Dr. Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social who has been selected by @statnews.com as one of this year's #STATWunderkinds !!
The award recognizes early-career scientists and doctors shaping the future of science and medicine. Read more here:
www.statnews.com/wunderkinds