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Annet Kirabo Receives APS/NIDDK Travel Award

Annet Kirabo received a Minority Travel Award from the American Physiology Society and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to attend the upcoming Experimental Biology Meeting in Washington DC where she will present her work on Jak2 tyrosine kinase. Annet is an IDP graduate student in…

Kavitha Gnanasambandan Receives an ASBMB Travel Award

Kavitha Gnanasambandan received a Travel Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to attend the upcoming Experimental Biology Meeting in Washington DC where she will present her work on Jak2 tyrosine kinase. Kavitha is an IDP graduate student in the laboratory of Peter Sayeski.

Soni Warren Receives ASCB Award

Soni Warren has received an American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Pre-Doctoral Travel Award to attend their 50th Anniversary Conference. She will present her work on the role of cardiac myosin light chain kinase (cMLCK) in the heart. Soni is a graduate student in Hideko Kasahara’s lab.

Dr. Sung Park Receives American Society of Hematology Award

Sung Park, Ph.D., received a Travel Award to attend the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology where she will present her work on the role of Jak2 kinase in hematopoiesis. Dr. Park is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Peter Sayeski.

Kirk Conrad awarded E. H. Starling Distinguished Lectureship

Kirk P. Conrad, M.D., was named the Ernest H. Starling Distinguished Lectureship Awardee for 2010 by the American Physiological Society on April 26, 2010. On that occasion he presented a lecture entitled, “Maternal Vasodilation in Pregnancy: The Emerging Role of Relaxin.”…

Adam Mecca wins silver medal at COM Med Guild competition

Adam Mecca has won a Silver Medal in the 2010 COM Medical Guild Graduate Research Competition for his work on the cerebroprotective actions of angiotensin (1-7) against ischemic stroke. Adam is an MD-PhD student with Colin Sumners and Michael Katovich.

University Scholars Program research awards

Jason Joseph, Fiona Desland and Philip Ritucci, undergraduate researchers with Colin Sumners, all received 2010 University Scholars Program research awards for their work on the cerebroprotective actions of angiotensin peptides in ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.

Natasha Moningka receives SEBM award

Natasha Moningka, a PhD student with Chris Baylis, has received an SEBM Young Investigator Award. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/sfeb-syi030310.php…