Stefan Strack was awarded a research grant entitled “Deciphering molecular pathogenesis and developing mouse models of PPP2R5D mutations” from Jordan’s Guardian Angels, a private NPO. The goals of this proposal are to 1) identify mechanisms by which recurrent de novo mutations in a regulatory...
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...
Dr. Kristin Claflin, a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Matt Potthoff's laboratory received an individual NIH Postdoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for her project entitled, “Identification of a Novel Neural Circuit Regulating Energy Expenditure and Glucose Homeostasis”....
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...
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...
The Amanda Hope Skolnick Undergraduate Award is given annually to honor the memory of Amanda Skolnick, who worked as a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Pharmacology while an undergraduate at Iowa. In her junior year of study, Amanda’s life tragically ended after being struck by a motor...
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...
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...
Shao Zhang, an undergraduate student researcher in the Grobe laboratory, received an individual Undergraduate Research Excellence Fellowship (2018 UGREF) from the American Physiological Society to continue his ongoing research. Mr. Zhang has worked in the Grobe laboratory for several years,...
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...