NOMIS–Salk Fellowship Program
The NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis at the Salk Institute takes pride in training the next generation of scientific leaders as exemplified through its prestigious NOMIS–Salk Fellowship Program. The fellowship program has supported the careers of many talented postdocs over the last decade, with typically three postdoctoral fellows appointed annually to work on health and immunity research.
The NOMIS–Salk Fellowship Program provides excellent postdoctoral researchers the freedom to pursue big questions at the intersection of two or more scientific disciplines in a collaborative research environment, while also providing outstanding scientific mentorship from proven leaders in their respective fields.
About the Salk Institute
The NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis was launched in 2008 with support from the NOMIS Foundation. The center aims to shed light on the molecular mechanisms that cause infectious diseases, define key molecules involved in the body’s response to injury and infection, elucidate the rules of engagement between the body’s microbiome and immune system, and understand why inflammatory processes spin out of control under some circumstances.
People
About Danish Umar Danish Umar is a NOMIS–Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he conducts research in the laboratory of Deepshika Ramanan. Born and raised in Nawada, Bihar, India, Umar completed his undergraduate studies at Jamia Millia Islamia in 2012 and earned his master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology […]
NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Timothy (Tim) Silas Strutzenberg is a NOMIS–Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, US, where he is conducting research under the mentorship of Dmitry Lyumkis.
Former NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Eduardo Vieira de Souza is a NOMIS–Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, US, where he is conducting his research under the mentorship of Alan Saghatelian in the Peptide Biology Laboratory.
NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
About Anna-Maria Globig Anna-Maria Globig is a NOMIS Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, USA). Globig was born and raised in Germany and obtained her medical degree from the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau. During her doctoral thesis, she investigated the immunological pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. After receiving […]
Former NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
About Jeremiah Minich Jeremiah “Jake” Minich is a NOMIS–Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, US). Minich was born and raised in a rural part of central Pennsylvania (Appalachia; US). He received a BS in biochemistry and minor in Spanish from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, US, and an […]
Former NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
About Yuan Sui Yuan Sui is a NOMIS–Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, US). Originally from China, Sui earned his BS in Bioengineering from Jilin Agricultural University (China). His commitment to research led him to serve as a research volunteer and later a research assistant at Jilin University, where he focused on PTPN12 in […]
Former NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
About Dan Chen Chen was born and raised in China, and obtained her BS in cellular and molecular biology from Nantong University and her PhD from Nanjing University. During her undergraduate and graduate training, she received numerous awards, including the College Outstanding Students Fellowship, Innovation Project of Jiangsu Province Postgraduate Training Fellowship, and Outstanding Graduate […]
Former NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
About Jan Penick Jan Pencik is a NOMIS–Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, US). Pencik is originally from Brno, Czech Republic. He obtained his master’s degree in biochemistry from the Palacky University (Olomouc, Czech Republic) before being accepted as a doctoral student in the Molecular Signal Transduction Program at the […]
Former NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
About Lidia Jiménez Lidia Jiménez is a NOMIS–Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, US). Jiménez was born in Spain and obtained a BS in pharmaceutical sciences in 2010 and an MSc in regenerative biomedicine in 2012 from the University of Granada (Spain). She obtained a PhD in molecular biosciences from […]
Former NOMIS Fellow
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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News
September 9, 2025
Can a healthy gut microbiome help prevent childhood stunting?
Former NOMIS–Salk Fellow Jeremiah Minich, together with other Salk Institute researchers, have discovered that gut microbiome turnover in children is linked to poor growth outcomes, pointing to microbiome-based diagnostics for malnutrition. Their findings were published in Cell. Malnutrition is responsible for more than half of all deaths in children under the age of five worldwide. […]
February 7, 2024
Lung cancer hijacks immune cell metabolism to fuel its own growth
NOMIS Center Director Susan Kaech and NOMIS Fellow Anna-Maria Globig, together with fellow scientists at the Salk Instistute, have discovered that lung adenocarcinoma cancer cells steer macrophage lipid metabolism to drive tumor progression, suggesting a new target for cancer treatment roadblocks. Lung adenocarcinoma is the most common lung cancer and the cause of most cancer-related […]
