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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Associate Professor Justin L. Grobe, PhD was selected in December 2017 to receive an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association. As described by the AHA, this career development award “is designed to support mid-career investigators with unusual promise and established...
For the cover of its February issue, the journal Molecular Metabolism has selected the article by Balyssa Bell, a Pharmacology graduate student in the laboratory of Kamal Rahmouni, PhD. Ballyssa's article entitled "Differential Contribution of POMC and AgRP Neurons to the Regulation of Regional...
Dr. Dawn Quelle, PI (UI Pharmacology) along with coIs Mike Knudson (UI Pathology), Joe Galbraith (UI Tissue Procurement Core), Ben Darbro (UI Pediatrics), James Howe (Surgery), Eugene Woltering (LSU, Surgery), and Tanja Milosavljevic (LSU, Surgery), received a NET SPORE Developmental award...
Researchers at Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa have received the nation's first and only Neuroendocrine SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence) grant, a five-year, $10.67 million award.
Neuroendocrine tumors are slow-growing cancers that occur...