Departmental faculty members Drs. Sokol Todi and Stanley R. Terlecky recently received grant award notifications related to their work on the cell biology of neuro-degenerative diseases. Dr. Todi received the “Young Investigator in Spinocerebellar Ataxias Award” from the National Ataxia Foundation. Dr. Terlecky received the “Albert and Goldye J. Nelson Endowment Fund Award”, designed to promote “research into the detection, treatment, and cure of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders”. Congratulations to both investigators.
Jenny Rothberg (Sloane lab) was selected as one of the recipients of a 2012 American Association for Cancer Research Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award.
Dr. Bernadette Victor (Sloane lab) successfully defended her PhD, funded by a DOD Breast Cancer Predoctoral Fellowship. She is undertaking postdoctoral training at St Jude's in Memphis, working in the lab of Dr. Doug Green (Chair of Immunology and Editor-in-Chief of Oncogene).
The graduate program for the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has merged with the graduate program for Pharmacology. One consequence is that the Pharmacology Department will soon be offering a Concentration in Toxicology as part of its curriculum. (Feb. 2012)
Dr.David Kessel is the most recent recipient of the prestigious Lawrence N. Weiner Award, to be presented on the annual Medical Alumni Day. More...
Dr. Kingsley Osuala, who is conducting postdoctoral work with Dr. Bonnie Sloane, was awarded a three year grant from the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program to study the signaling process that triggers a type of breast cancer to transform into an invasive state. More....
Dr. Izabela Podgorski has been awarded Herrick Research Challenge funds to conduct studies on important racial disparities in prostate cancer. More...
The success of the 'Imaging Boot Camp' for cancer researchers, brainchild of Dr. Bonnie Sloane, is discussed in a recent NCI bulletin.
Dr. Cavallo-Medved received a grant that allowed advanced biology students and their mentors to develop an interactive, user-friendly lab to help first year biology students understand basic biological concepts. More...
It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Dr. Angelika Burger. She was a valued colleague and friend, and will be missed. More...
Dr. David Kessel was recently awarded a renewal on his NIH grant, which is focused on understanding how light-activated cancer drugs illuminate and destroy malignant tissue, a discipline known as photodynamic therapy. Dr. Kessel has been continuously funded by the NIH for 55 years! More...
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Jenny Rothberg (Sloane lab) has been selected as one of the recipients of a
2012 AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award for participation in the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Chicago.
Bernadette Victor (Sloane lab) defended her PhD in October. Her dissertaion research
was funded by a DOD Breast Cancer Predoctoral Fellowship. Bernadette is now
undertaking postdoctoral training in Dr. Doug Green's lab at St Jude's in Memphis.
Congratulations to Magen Johnson (Bannon lab), who was awarded a competitive Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (F31) from the National Institutes of Health to support her dissertation project titled "A profile of addiction: the midbrain transcriptome in cocaine abuse". More...
The Department would like to welcome our four new students who joined this autumn: Kelly McGregor, Wen Qu, Arko Sen and Anne Yang. All are involved in their second research rotation (Feb., 2012).
Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Kadija Abounit who completed her Ph.D. in August and graduated in December, 2011. She is now doing postdoctoral work with Dr. Jaro Vostal at the FDA in Bethesda, MD.
An extremely busy and successful summer for Pharmacology's Graduate Program - Komal Sane (Mattingly lab), Margaret Prior (Davis lab), Claudio Villalobos
(Andrade lab), Nicole Najor (Brush lab), and Mary Irwin (Boerner lab) all
defended their doctoral theses and are moving on to exciting post-graduate
positions. We wish them all the very best!
Congratulations to Nicole Najor (Brush lab) for taking first place honors in WSU's first University-wide Graduate Exhibition. More...
Dr. Brian Cummings, a Lash lab alum and past recipient of the Departmental Alumni Award, has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at the University of Georgia.
Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Eric Hales (Wu Lab) who successfully defended his doctoral thesis "The Chromosome Architectural Role of Leu0 in Transcriptional Translation" on December 17th.
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Cell biology and Neuroscience:
Reversible modifications provide an important means for regulating protein function, which is essential for cellular responses. Until recently, phosphorylation has been the major focus of such protein post-translational modification studies. A recent paper by Nick Davis and colleagues reveals another regulated proteome — neuronal proteins modified by the 16-carbon fatty acid palmitate. In a technical tour-de-force, they have detected not only the palmitoylated neuronal proteins identified previously, but several hundred new candidates, including proteins involved in neurotransmitter availability and responsiveness, the growth and retraction of neuronal processes, and synaptic adhesion. More…
Neuroscience: Understanding the molecular consequences of drug addiction may contribute to the development of better treatment strategies. Studies by Mike Bannon, Greg Kapatos and colleagues have identified the profile of changes in gene expression in the ‘pleasure center’ of chronic heroin abusers, comparing findings to previous data involving human cocaine abusers. More… |
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