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 energy...
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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”. The...
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...
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...
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...
On Friday December 15, 2017, Jeremy A. Sandgren defended his thesis entitled “Vasopressin in Preeclampsia.” Jeremy is a combined MD+PhD graduate student enrolled in the MSTP program within the Carver College of Medicine, and has worked toward his PhD requirements within the Pharmacology graduate...
Post-Comprehensive Research Award Sharon Idiga (Molecular Medicine Graduate Student, Potthoff lab) - The recent rise in obesity has been greatly influenced by food intake and diet composition. Although multiple studies have explored the complex regulation of macronutrient preference, the molecular...
Addison W. Woll completed his graduate work in the laboratory of Dr. Curt Sigmund graduating with his MS in December 2017. His thesis title was the “Role of PPARg and Retinol Binding Protein 7 in the Vascular Endothelium.” Addison’s dissertation work focused on determining the mechanism of...
The 2017 Michael J. Brody Lecture was presented in October by Dr. C. Ronald Kahn of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kahn joined the impressive list of world-renowned scientists invited by Pharmacology graduate students to present the annual Brody Lecture, which has been a signature event in...
IT'S ALL DAD'S FAULT Katie Perschbacher is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Molecular Medicine Program under the mentorship of Justin Grobe. She completed her bachelor’s degree in 2013 at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Her research is focused on identifying the early molecular mechanisms that...