John Dunn successfully completed his M.S. recently. He performed his research with Dr. Bryan Phillips , Associate Professor of Biology. Congratulations!
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Emily Nguyen successfully defended her thesis on March 29th 2018! Title: "Mitochondrial Ca 2+ /Calmodulin-dependent kinase II (CaMKII) regulates smooth muscle cell migration and neointimal formation via mitochondrial Ca 2+ uptake and mobility”. CONGRATULATIONS! Pictured below: Emily (left) and...
Reinaldo Franqui Machin successfully defended his thesis on March 29th 2018! Title: "Destabilizing NEK2 overcomes resistance to proteasome inhibition in multiple myeloma”. CONGRATULATIONS! Pictured below: Mentor Fenghuang Zhan, PhD (left) and Reinaldo (right)
Dr. Anil Chauhan, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, has received the prestigious R35 Emerging Investigator Award (EIA) from the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The seven-year, $5.3 million award will fund his project entitled “Targeting pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2): A novel...
Congratulations! Kaylia Duncan is the recipient of the Ballard Seashore Fellowship for the Fall 2018 semester. She is Molecular Medicine graduate student from Professor Robert Cornell's lab. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to benefit from a final semester of...
Christy Heidema successfully defended her thesis on March 19th 2018! Title: "SHP2 is activated in response to force on E-cadherin and dephosphorylates vinculin Y822” Pictured below: Mentor Kris DeMali, PhD (left) and Christy (right)
Dr. Rana Dajani, Molecular Medicine program 2005 Alumni, is the recipient of the University of Iowa 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award! Read more about her accomplishments under the listing "Achievement and Service" category. http://bit.ly/2FNiEol
Infrastructure, Health Care, Education Lead Iowa to No. 1 Best States Ranking. There’s more to the Hawkeye State than corn and presidential primaries, the Best States rankings show. Of particular note about this is that we ranked #3 overall in Healthcare and #5 in Education among all of the states...
Lucy P. Evans , Molecular Medicine graduate student in Dr. Alexander Bassuk's lab, publishes a first-author paper in the Journal - Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology (ACTN). Congratulations. Click here - http://bit.ly/2DxAXME
Dr. Ashutosh Mangalam , Assistant Professor for Pathology, received grant funding from US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health. The title of this project is "Linking diet, gut microbiota and autoimmune disease: Bacteria induced phytoestrogen metabolites impact...