Graduate students matriculating in any healthcare discipline are invited to apply for the AAHPO Najarian Family Scholarship. Established in 2019 by the Lawrence and Magda Najarian Family, the scholarship honors their parents, Mary and Vahan Najarian and Freda and Gagiuk Hovakimian, MD, PhD. The scholarship benefits students matriculating in a graduate program related to the healthcare sciences with an award of $2,500. The deadline for application is December 1, 2025 and the scholarship recipient will be announced on January 18, 2026 at the AAHPO Service Awards.
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Meet an AAHPO Najarian Family Scholarship Winner
Christopher Markosian, PhD was awarded the 2024 AAHPO Najarian Family Scholarship. He is a matriculating medical student at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (highest honors, summa cum laude) from Rutgers University, Christopher served as an English instructor at Yerevan State Medical University in Armenia as part of the Fulbright US Student Program.
Following his return to the United States in 2019, he began his graduate studies in the MD-PhD program at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Christopher recently earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences in 2024 after defending his thesis, entitled “Target Discovery in Non-Human Primates with Hereditary Colon Cancer.” His work has been featured in over 30 publications in several prestigious journals.
