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What is your hometown Bellevue, Iowa How/when did you become interested in science and/or medicine? On Saturdays, after dance class, I used to wait in the lounge at the clinical laboratory where my mom worked in the lab and as a phlebotomist. On multiple occasions, I was allowed to see interesting...
Dr. Jian Zhang’s Laboratory Staff Wins Multiple Presentation and Travel Awards for the 2020 Annual Association of Immunology Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii...
The title of the study is: Sequential ubiquitination of NLRP3 by RNF125 and Cbl-b limits inflammasome activation and endotoxemia...
Dr. Annette Schlueter is featured this month on The College of Medicine Faculty Focus...
Dr. Vladimir Badovinac received a five-year NIH MIRA(Maximizing Investigators' Research Award) R35 entitled ‘Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Sepsis-induced Immunoparalysis State’...
Drs. Vladimir Badovinac and John Harty have successfully renewed their R01 grant entitled ‘Memory CD8 T Cell Localization and Protection from Influenza’ from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)...
Dr. Andrean Simons-Burnett received a four-year Merit Award grant from the Department of Veteran Affairs entitled “IL-1-based immunotherapy in HNSCC”...
Dr. Sterling Ortega received a one year pilot grant from the National MS Society entitled, “The Neuro-reparative Role of Myelin-specific CD8 T-cells in EAE Recovery”...
Dr. Munir Tanas received a five-year NIH R01 grant entitled “Epigenetic Modulation of the TAZ-CAMTA1 Transcriptional Program by the Ada2a-containing Histone Acetyltransferase (ATAC) Complex”...
Dr. Chen Zhao received a five-year NIH R01 research grant entitled “Heat Shock Transcription Factor 1 (HSF1) Specifically Regulates AML Stem Cell Self-Renewal”...