Graduate program: Pharmacology Undergraduate Institution: Wright State University, Ohio (MS), NET Pharmacy College, India (BPharm) Hometown: Lalitpur, Nepal Why did you choose the University of Iowa to pursue your graduate degree? Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa is one...
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At the 2019 CCOM Faculty Awards Banquet in March, Stefan Strack. Ph.D., John Paul Long Professor of Pharmacology (third from right) received the J.P. Long Teaching Award in the Basic Sciences. The award honors John P. Long, Ph.D., a former faculty member and chair of the Department of Pharmacology...
Ted Abel, director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute and Interim Chair and DEO of the Department of Pharmacology, has received a Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) award to continue his research into autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The project, “Translating Drug Discovery in...
Erica Cole is proof of the old adage that necessity is the mother of invention. A senior at the University of Iowa, Cole, 22, came back to Iowa City different for the fall semester. The chemistry major had lost her leg in a car accident in May while visiting Colorado. Months later, with the support...
Guorui Deng, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Grobe’s laboratory, has been awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship (19POST34380239) from the American heart Association for his project entitled “Mechanisms of angiotensin AT1A signal transduction in AgRP neurons for metabolic rate control”. The objective of...
A recent study by researchers led by the University of Iowa’s director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Ted Abel, takes a step forward in research on why autism predominately affects males. The researchers tested lab mice, studying them for abnormalities in specifically reward-learning behavior...
Katherine (Katie) Perschbacher completed her thesis work in the lab of Justin Grobe, PhD (Pharmacology). Her translational research project identified a novel role for the Regulator of G Protein Signaling-2 (RGS2) within the placenta in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia, and involved an array of...
Mengya Wang (Pharmacology Graduate Student, Russo lab) - Migraine is a prevalent neurological disease, affecting approximately 12% of Americans. Although prevalent, the mechanisms underlying migraine remain elusive and effective treatments are lacking. Alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)...
Meet Justin Grobe, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology.
Ted Abel, PhD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty member and director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute at the UI, will serve as interim chair and departmental executive officer (DEO) of the Department of Pharmacology, effective Nov. 12, 2018. Abel succeeds Curt Sigmund, PhD,...