Past Recipients of the Robert J. Cotter New Investigator Award

• 2025: Jesse Meyer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• 2024: Ying Zhu, Genentech, Inc.
• 2023: Yansheng Liu, Yale University School of Medicine
• 2022: Stephanie Cologna, University of Illinois Chicago
• 2021: Martin Wuhr, Princeton University
• 2020: Si Wu (University of Oklahoma) and Nick Young (Baylor College of Medicine) 
• 2019: Wilhelm Haas (MassGeneral Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School)
• 2018: Leslie Hicks (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• 2017: Peter Nemes (George Washington University) and Christine Vogel (New York University)
• 2016: Paola Picotti (ETH Zurich)
• 2015: Bernd Bodenmiller (University of Zurich)
• 2014: Judit Villen (University of Washington)
• 2013: Rebecca Gundry (University of Nebraska Medical Center)

2026 Recipient: Nathan Basisty, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Nathan Basisty is an NIH Distinguished Scholar and Tenure Track Investigator at the National Institute on Aging. His lab, the Translational Geroproteomics Unit, works at the intersection of proteomics and translational aging biology, with a focus on biomarker and drug-target discovery using mass spectrometry-based approaches, as well as developing methods to assess proteome dynamics in vivo. Dr. Basisty received his Ph.D. in Pathology from the University of Washington, co-mentored by Drs. Peter Rabinovitch and Michael MacCoss. In 2015, he started his postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Birgit Schilling, co-mentored by Dr. Judith Campisi, at the Buck Institute.

Dr. Basisty is proudly involved in the US HUPO community and providing opportunities for trainees. He has been an active member of the Early Career Researcher (ECR) committee since its inception, is a member of the US HUPO Mentoring Committee, and has been an organizer of a variety of mentoring and professional development events associated with US HUPO. In 2024, he had the pleasure of co-organizing the annual US HUPO conference in Portland.

Dr. Basisty's awards include two "Aging Cell Best Paper Prizes", in 2014 and 2017 and the Joseph A. Pignolo, Sr. Award in Aging Research (2016), a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (2020), Selection for ASMS Emerging Talent (2020), NIH Distinguished Scholar Program Award (2022), Amaranth Prize for Strong Contribution to the Field of Aging (2023), NIA Distinguished Postbac Mentor Award (2023), and Rising Star in Proteomics and Metabolomics by JPR (2023).