Katherine (Katie) Perschbacher completed her thesis work in the lab of Justin Grobe, PhD (Pharmacology). Her translational research project identified a novel role for the Regulator of G Protein Signaling-2 (RGS2) within the placenta in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia, and involved an array of...
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Mengya Wang (Pharmacology Graduate Student, Russo lab) - Migraine is a prevalent neurological disease, affecting approximately 12% of Americans. Although prevalent, the mechanisms underlying migraine remain elusive and effective treatments are lacking. Alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)...
Meet Justin Grobe, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology.
Ted Abel, PhD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty member and director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute at the UI, will serve as interim chair and departmental executive officer (DEO) of the Department of Pharmacology, effective Nov. 12, 2018. Abel succeeds Curt Sigmund, PhD,...
Dr. Kamal Rahmouni, Professor in the Department of Pharmacology received a new Merit Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs for his project entitled “Neuronal Mechanisms of Obesity-Induced Hypertension”. Obesity has become common in the US and among the VA population. This is a problem...
Douglas Lowy, M.D. , Deputy Director of the NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI), presented the 2018 Michael J. Brody Lecture in October. Dr. Lowry joined the impressive list of world-renowned scientists invited by Pharmacology graduate students to present the annual Brody Lecture , which has been a...
During the Molecular Medicine Retreat on Saturday, October, 13, 2018, two of the three awards presented were received by two students working in Pharmacology labs. Mackenzie Spicer, graduate student in Dr. Rory Fisher's laboratory for her 1st place poster entitled "Regulator of G protein signaling...
Drs. Songhai Chen, MD, PhD and Mark Stamnes, PhD, Associate Professors in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, have been awarded a Carver Collaborative Grant. The project is titled “Identification of novel genetic determinants of endocrine resistance in breast...
Dr. Guo, an Assistant Research Scientist in the laboratory of Kamal Rahmouni in the Department of Pharmacology in the UI College of Medicine, was selected for the Outstanding Staff Award based on his tremendous contribution toward research and teaching missions of the UI since he joined the...
Justin L. Grobe, PhD, FAHA has been awarded a 2018-2019 Carver Trust Medical Research Initiative Grant. This pilot grant, titled “Are principal cells the ‘principal problem’ for preeclampsia?” will utilize state of the art single-cell RNA sequencing techniques to investigate changes in the...