Dr. Kamal Rahmouni, Professor in the Department of Pharmacology received a new Merit Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs for his project entitled “Neuronal Mechanisms of Obesity-Induced Hypertension”. Obesity has become common in the US and among the VA population. This is a problem...
Douglas Lowy, M.D. , Deputy Director of the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI), presented the 2018 Michael J. Brody Lecture in October. Dr. Lowry joined the impressive list of world-renowned scientists invited by Pharmacology...
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...
Drs. Songhai Chen, MD, PhD and Mark Stamnes, PhD, Associate Professors in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, have been awarded a Carver Collaborative Grant. The project is titled “Identification of novel genetic determinants of endocrine resistance in breast...
Dr. Guo, an Assistant Research Scientist in the laboratory of Kamal Rahmouni in the Department of Pharmacology in the UI College of Medicine, was selected for the Outstanding Staff Award based on his tremendous contribution toward research and teaching missions of the UI since he joined the...
Justin L. Grobe, PhD, FAHA has been awarded a 2018-2019 Carver Trust Medical Research Initiative Grant. This pilot grant, titled “Are principal cells the ‘principal problem’ for preeclampsia?” will utilize state of the art single-cell RNA sequencing techniques to investigate changes in 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...
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...
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...