The CSHL Fellows Program in an integral part of the CSHL community and its distinguished history, is evident by the illustrious list of CSHL fellow alumni.
| Year | CSHL Fellow | Current Position | Accomplishments as a CSHL Fellow |
| 1986 | Adrian Krainer | Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Discovered the founding member of the SR protein family of RNA-binding proteins and revealed its role in alternative splicing. |
| 1988 | Carol Greider | Professor University California Santa Cruz |
Cloned the RNA component of telomerase and linked telomere shortening to aging. |
| 1989 | Eric Richards | Professor Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research |
Identified the first plant mutants with aberrant DNA methylation. |
| 1991 | David Barford | Group Leader MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology |
Determined the first crystal structure of a protein tyrosine phosphatase. |
| 1994 | Ueli Grossniklaus | Professor University of Zürich |
Discovered the first gene required for imprinting in plants. |
| 1995 | Scott Lowe | Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Discovered oncogene-induced senescence as a mechanism of tumor suppression. |
| 1998 | Marja Timmermans | Professor University of Tübingen |
Pioneered methods to visualize small RNA accumulation in situ with cellular resolution. |
| 2000 | Terence Strick | Group Leader Institut Jacques Monod |
Used single-molecule technologies to understand chromosome compaction by SMC proteins. |
| 2000 | Lee Henry | Research Investigator Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Applied mRNA amplification technologies to the study of taste receptor cell differentiation and turnover. |
| 2004 | Ira Hall | Professor Yale School of Medicine |
Identified recurrent DNA copy number variations linked with different mouse strains. |
| 2004 | Patrick Paddison | Professor Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Developed RNAi screening technology for studying stem cell self renewal. |
| 2008 | Dinu Florin Albeanu | Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Revealed algorithms the brain uses to decode olfactory perception. |
| 2008 | Ivan Iossifov | Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Discovered several human autism susceptibility genes. |
| 2008 | Christopher Vakoc | Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Discovered the chromatin reader protein BRD4 as therapeutic target in leukemia. |
| 2010 | Justin Kinney | Associate Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Developed mathematical tools for learning sequence-function relationships from massively parallel reporter assays. |
| 2013 | Lingbo Zhang | Assistant Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Discovered muscarinic acetylcholine receptor as a regulator of erythroid cell differentiation. |
| 2015 | Jason Sheltzer | Assistant Professor Yale School of Medicine |
Revealed how chromosomal aneuploidy functions a driver mechanism of cancer progression. |
| 2017 | Semir Beyaz | Assistant Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Identified how a high-fat diet alters antigen presentation and tumorigenesis in the intestine. |
| 2019 | Hannah Meyer | Assistant Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Discovered novel transcriptome diversity within human thymic epithelial cells. |
| 2022 | Corina Amor Vegas | Assistant Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |