Meet the 2026 InfuCare Rx® Scholarship Recipients
Every year, we are reminded that some of the most determined, big-hearted people we’ll ever meet are also managing a chronic condition. Something most of their peers will never have to think about. This year was no exception.
The six students who were selected to receive the InfuCare Rx Scholarships are living with primary immunodeficiency, neuromuscular disease, and bleeding disorders. They’ve turned hospital stays into research projects, diagnoses into career callings, and hard days into reasons to help someone else through theirs. We’re proud to help them take the next step toward their futures.
Congratulations to our 2026 recipients!
2026 Bleeding Disorders Scholarship Recipients
Kyle DuVal, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Kyle has lived with severe hemophilia A with an inhibitor his entire life. During his sophomore year of college, a severe flare of ulcerative colitis led to nearly three months of hospitalization and several life-saving operations.
Kyle came back to campus facing real physical changes and an academic record that didn’t reflect his potential, and he rebuilt from there. He took on research in a cancer lab, a role as an emergency medicine scribe, a seat in student government, and a position advocating for students at the university’s School of Public Health.
Kyle has also testified in legislative meetings in Washington, D.C. on behalf of the bleeding disorders community. That work has shaped how he sees healthcare, research, and advocacy as connected parts of the same mission. He is on a path to medical school, with research already published and presented at national symposia.
Kyle turned one of the hardest chapters of his life into the origin story for a career built on advocacy and research.
Evan Cedeno, University of Wisconsin, Madison
As a kid managing severe Hemophilia A, Evan spent many recesses on the sidelines. He taught himself to fold paper cranes and solve Rubik’s Cubes instead. That redirected energy became a full-blown engineering career. Evan has invented a patent-pending handheld medication-delivery device to make self-infusion safer and easier. This summer he’ll be researching ways to make ultrasound tools more accessible to patients and hospitals alike.
He has also given back directly. As a camp counselor for kids with bleeding disorders, Evan helped a nervous nine-year-old work up the courage to self-infuse for the first time. This was a full-circle moment nearly a decade after another counselor did the same for him.
Evan is literally engineering the tools that make life easier for the next generation of kids growing up with his condition.
Neuromuscular Scholarship Recipients
Lily Bosrock — University of Iowa
Lily was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis just a year ago, on top of a type 1 diabetes diagnosis she’s managed since childhood. Between double vision, breathing symptoms, and the emotional weight of watching a new diagnosis unfold in real time, this past year has asked a lot of her. She has met it head-on.
Lily is choosing a career of showing up for others in their hardest moments, informed directly by her own. She is headed to nursing school with a minor in American Sign Language. She dreams of studying abroad and eventually becoming a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.
Lily wants a career built around showing up for families in their hardest moments, something she understands from the inside out.
Lavender Barber — North Carolina Central University
Living with Multiple Sclerosis means Lavender has had to relearn her own body: watching for overheating at the gym, weighing whether tryouts for her university dance team are worth the risk of dizziness.
Lavender spent years being told by others that she would not be able to accomplish many of the things she wanted. She spent those same years proving otherwise, dual-enrolled in community college, on honor rolls throughout middle and high school, and graduating high school with an Associate’s degree and a biotechnology certification already in hand.
Lavender is pursuing a degree in Biomedical Science, with her sights set on a PhD in Pharmacology and a career developing new treatments, including those from natural remedies.
She wants to be part of the science that helps people like her.
Primary Immunodeficiency Scholarship Recipients
Katherine Courington — Texas Woman’s University
Katherine has spent much of her life navigating primary immunodeficiency, including a stretch of her teenage years when a doctor dismissed her symptoms and refused to restart the treatment that had once kept her stable. She switched physicians and got back on the treatment she needed. Now, she is heading to college and will learn to manage her own infusions for the first time as she leaves home.
That experience is exactly why she wants to become a Child Life Specialist. Katherine hopes to work in a children’s hospital, helping young patients, especially those in oncology and infusion units, find their voice as they navigate scary, confusing medical experiences. Having been that child, she wants to be the advocate she once needed.
Katherine didn’t just survive a broken system. She built her whole career path around fixing it for the next kid in the waiting room.
Ryan Ghaemi — University of California, Irvine
Every month since he was five years old, Ryan has sat through an eight-hour IVIG infusion, followed by days of headaches, brain fog, and fatigue that often collide directly with school. Rather than letting his condition dictate his limits, he has built his life around consistency and grit. Ryan has excelled in AP and honors coursework, conducted medical research, and led both his school’s Red Cross and STEM Clubs.
Ryan is headed toward a career in medicine, driven by a simple idea: he knows what it feels like to be vulnerable and unheard. He wants to be the kind of doctor who actually listens. Growing up in a low-income household, he has also seen firsthand how quickly hidden costs like lab fees, transportation, and insurance can derail a student’s momentum.
Ryan has turned a treatment schedule that would exhaust most adults into a training ground for the discipline he’ll need in medical school.
A Future with Purpose
Each of these students offers a unique perspective on healthcare, advocacy, and community leadership. What they all share is an unwavering determination to pursue their dreams while navigating the challenges of rare and chronic conditions. We are proud to support them—not only for their accomplishments, but also for the empathy, courage, and insight they bring to everything they do.
To Ryan, Katherine, Lily, Lavender, Evan, and Kyle: thank you for sharing your stories with us. We can’t wait to see what you build next.
Interested in the InfuCare Rx Scholarship Program?
Our annual scholarship program supports individuals with primary immunodeficiencies, neuromuscular conditions, and bleeding disorders who are pursuing higher education. Each year, we receive many qualified applications from students who bravely manage their health challenges while excelling in their studies.
To learn more about the InfuCare Rx Scholarship Program, click here.