Adam Mecca has won a Silver Medal in the 2010 COM Medical Guild Graduate Research Competition for his work on the cerebroprotective actions of angiotensin (1-7) against ischemic stroke. Adam is an MD-PhD student with Colin Sumners and Michael Katovich.
Jason Joseph, Fiona Desland and Philip Ritucci, undergraduate researchers with Colin Sumners, all received 2010 University Scholars Program research awards for their work on the cerebroprotective actions of angiotensin peptides in ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.
Natasha Moningka, a PhD student with Chris Baylis, has received an SEBM Young Investigator Award. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/sfeb-syi030310.php…
Mark Cunningham, a PhD student with Chris Baylis, is a recipient of the 2010 APS/NIDDK Minority Travel Fellowship Awards for Experimental Biology 2010 http://the-aps.org/awards/student/10niddk-eb-awardees.htm…
Annet Kirabo has won a Carolyn tum Suden/Francis A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award from the American Physiological Society. Annet is an IDP graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Sayeski.
Jonathan T. McGuane, Ph.D., has won an award from the Society of Gynecological Investigation (SGI) for an abstract that he submitted for their upcoming annual scientific meeting in Orlando, to be held in March. He is a postdoctoral associate whose faculty mentor is Kirk P. Conrad, M.D. The Pfizer President’s…
Sonisha Warren has received an American Heart Association BCVS Abstract Travel Grant Award for the AHA Scientific Sessions held in November, 2009. She is a Graduate Assistant in Dr. Hideko Kasahara’s lab.
Kavitha Gnanasambandan has won an International Student Award from the University of Florida International Center. Kavitha is a third year IDP graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Sayeski.
Congratulations to Hideko Kasahara, M.D., Ph.D., and A. J. Cardounel, Ph.D., who have both been promoted to Associate Professor in our department.
2009 Kalra Award Recipients Drew Taylor (left) and Karen Eberhart (right) have been honored with the 2009 Pusha S. Kalra Award for Endocrine Physiology. They are shown here with Dr. Kalra.
