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Katya Beltran (Assoc)
Research Chemist
Katya joined NIST in fall 2025, working on a variety of projects involving analyzing drug residues and powders to gain real-time insight into the illicit drug market, providing authentic, real-world samples to institutions as research-grade materials, and acquiring data on drugs of abuse and adulterants to create a dataset available to the forensic and public health communities.
Awards
NIST 2026 MML Early Career Accolade: “For outstanding contribution to the development of RGTMs under the Characterized Authentic Drug Samples Project.”
SOFT 2025 Young Forensic Toxicologist Leo Dal Cortivo Award: For Best Poster
Bernice Dorren Stewart 2021 Award: Outstanding Female Scientist