ICRU's Research Fellows Program is designed to promote undergraduate engagement in research and creative projects. The program allows current University of Iowa undergraduates in any discipline to work with UI faculty or P&S staff mentors on a specific project during the academic year and/or...
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Curt D. Sigmund, PhD, chair and departmental officer of the Department of Pharmacology and Roy J Carver Chair in Hypertension Research, has received the Carl J. Wiggers Award given by the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society (APS). Sigmund received the award at the...
Sharon Idiga, a third year Molecular Medicine graduate student in the Potthoff laboratory, has been awarded an individual 2018-2020 Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association for her project titled “Novel Endocrine Circuit Regulating Sugar Satiety.” The project is aimed at...
At the annual CCOM Health Sciences Research Week in April of this year, three Pharmacology trainees were recognized with best poster awards. In the Graduate Student category, awards were given to Grant Walters, an Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience student training in the laboratory...
Lucas D. BonDurant has completed his graduate work in the laboratory of Dr. Matthew Potthoff and will graduate with his PhD in May 2018. His thesis title was "The Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis by FGF21." BonDurant's dissertation work focused on the mechanism of FGF21 in regulating glucose...
Dr. Chou-Long Huang, Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of Nephrology, and Dr. Curt Sigmund, Chair and Departmental Officer of the Department of Pharmacology and Roy J Carver Chair in Hypertension Research have received a 5-year, $1.7M training grant from the National Institute of Diabetes...
Timothy Nguyen, undergraduate in Dr. Songhai Chen's laboratory, and Shao Zhang, undergraduate in Dr. Justin Grobe's laboratory were both selected to represent the University of Iowa at the 13th Annual “Research in the Capitol” day on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Each year, just twenty students from each...
Pharmacology trainees were well represented among those receiving awards at the 2018 Research Day Scientific Poster Session of the Federal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center. Graduate students Sharon Idiga (Molecular Medicine, Potthoff laboratory) and Rachel Minerath (Pharmacology, Grueter...
Three graduate students training in Pharmacology are featured in the UI 2018 Dare to Discover banner campaign. The campaign gives recognition to undergraduate and graduate students from across the University of Iowa for their scholarly and creative activities. Pharmacology trainees Lucas Bon Durant...
Sheps King-McAlpin (MM Graduate Student - Matthew Potthoff) has received an Underrepresented Minority Pre-Comprehensive Mentored Summer Research Fellowship. This award is intended to facilitate my research progress. Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is an endocrine hormone that regulates energy...