On May 31, 2025, Dr Grant presented the Igor Grant MD Endowed Award for Academic Excellence and Biomedical Research to UC San Diego School of Medicine graduating student Katherine Lee.

Dr. Lee has demonstrated outstanding academic excellence while completing her MD/PhD at UC San Diego. Dr. Lee will use her PhD background in gene regulation, RNA biology, and bioinformatics towards studying the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders to improve the mental health of her patients.

Dr. Grant celebrates with some trainees from the past three decades at the February, 2025 meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) in New Orleans. Pictured from left to right are: Tom Marcotte, David Moore, Lily Kamalyan, Lillian Ham, Igor Grant, Jennifer Manly, Crystal Wang, Mariana Cherner, Jennifer Iudicello, Jake Rattigan, and Victoria Chentsova.

Dr. Grant contributed to the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition's (ASPEN) Nutrition Science & Practice Conference with the below video honoring his late wife, JoAnn Nalliger Grant, RN (pictured). The conference took place on March 22-25, 2025.

Dr. Grant congratulates Lily Kamalyan on receiving her PhD in Clinical Psychology during the UCSD graduation ceremony on June 16, 2024. Dr. Kamalyan’s thesis entitled "Associations between neighborhood vulnerabilities and neuropsychiatric outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic among a diverse cohort of people aging with HIV” used geospatial methods of combining Census data and satellite imagery data with clinical outcomes as well as considered the impact of COVID-19 as a community stressor. Dr. Kamalyan is continuing her postdoctoral work at Columbia University. Congratulations Dr. Kamalyan!