Catherine Marcinkiewcz, PhD , assistant professor of pharmacology in the UI Carver College of Medicine, received a two-year, $70,000 grant for a project deconstructing connectivity with the Dorsal Raphe in social behavior. Dr. Marcinkiewcz was one of three University of Iowa scientists in the Iowa...
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An NIH program project grant, “Genetic and Signaling Mechanisms in the Central Regulation of Blood Pressure,” administrated by Principal Investigator Dr. Curt Sigmund of Pharmacology was successfully renewed for the second time in 2018. The continuation will fund three projects and three scientific...
Leslie Carrillo-Sáenz recently completed the Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) . This program is designed for recent graduates from traditionally underrepresented groups in biomedical fields to gain experience before entering graduate school. Learn more about Sáenz and how the...
Rory A. Fisher, PhD , Professor of the Department of Pharmacology, with the collaboration of Dr. Nandakumar Narayanan, has been awarded a 5-year $2.0 million National Institutes of Health (NIAAA) R01 Research Grant entitled “RGS6 in mesolimbic circuits as a therapeutic target for alcohol use...
Stefan Strack was awarded a 3-year, $1.7 M grant from Jordan’s Guardians Angels, a private foundation that supports research on Jordan’s Syndrome. Jordan’s Syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with intellectual disability and autism that is caused by de novo, autosomal-dominant...
Sheps King-McAlpin, a graduate student in Dr. Matthew Potthoff’s laboratory in the Molecular Medicine Program and Department of Pharmacology, has been awarded an NIH R01 Minority Supplement for his project entitled, “Exploring the Mechanism of FGF21’s Acute Insulin Sensitization.” The main...
Stefan Strack, Yuriy Usachev, and Mark Yorek (Internal Medicine, Veterans Administration) were awarded a multi-PI R01 from the National Institutes for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) entitled “Targeting Mitochondrial Fission for Neuroprotection in Diabetic Neuropathy”. The...
Morgan Kemerling and Michael Leaman were selected to receive a 2017-2018 academic year research fellowship from the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU). Morgan and Michael are mentored by Dr. Kathleen Markan and are focused on understanding beige adipocyte development and the effects...
Balyssa B. Bell has completed her graduate work in the laboratory of Dr. Kamal Rahmouni and will graduate with her PhD in May 2018. Her thesis title was "Hypothalamic Mechanisms Underlying the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Actions of Leptin." Balyssa's dissertation work focused on the differential...
Kevin Chen, and undergraduate student researcher in the Grobe laboratory, received an individual Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (2018 UGSRF) from the American Physiological Society. Mr. Chen will be studying the mechanisms controlling osmotic balance and blood volume control during...