A generous gift from Dr. Gary G. Buterbaugh (Pharmacology, M.S. ‘67, Ph.D. ’69), now of Lakewood, Colorado, enabled the establishment in May of a new travel award for Pharmacology trainees to be given in the honor of Dr. James L. Spratt, M.D. Ph.D. (1932-2011). Spratt mentored Buterbaugh...
Dr. Christopher Benson has been named the Clinical Chief of Cardiology for the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Benson is a Professor of Internal Medicine and of Pharmacology and Chief of Cardiology at the VA Medical Center. He received his MD from the University of Minnesota School of...
Yujia (Jenny) Liu, graduate student in Pharmacology working in the laboratory of Dr. Stefan Strack, was awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship. The two-year award that began on January 1, 2017 is entitled “Interplay Between AKAP1-scaffolded Calcineurin and PKA in...
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...
Curt D. Sigmund, PhD , the Roy J. Carver Chair in Hypertension Research, and professor and DEO of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, has been awarded the...
Drs. Stefan Strack and Yuriy Usachev, John P Long Professors of Pharmacology, were awarded a 5-year Iowa Neuroscience Institute Research Program of Excellence grant supported by the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust...
Shao Yang Zhang, an undergraduate researcher in the laboratory of Justin L. Grobe, PhD, was selected to receive a 2017 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship (UGSRF) from the American Physiological Society. His project focuses on understanding the role of the neurohormone, arginine vasopressin...
Stephanie Alberico, B.S., a graduate student in the Narayanan Lab , received the Graduate Research Excellence Award in...