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Meagan Horan

Catecholamine Society ASPET Travel Award

Congratulations to Joon Paek, from the Urs Lab, who won the 2025 Daniel T. O’Connor Young Investigator Travel Award at the annual ASPET meeting, which was held in Portland, Oregon this year. …

Pain Research & Integrated Neuroscience Symposium Awards

For the Pain Research & Integrated Neuroscience Symposium held on March 31, 2025 at the HPNP Auditorium at the University of Florida, where three of our researchers won awards for their posters. Congratulations to Heather Allen, Ph.D. for being awarded First Place for her poster: “Parabrachial neuropeptide Y…

New Position at Retro Biosciences

Congratulations to Dr. Bird’s Postdoctoral Associate, Ghazaleh Behnammanesh, who recently joined Retro Biosciences as a Cochlear Scientist within the Tissue Reprogramming team, based in Redwood City, California. My work focuses on supporting the development of reprogramming-based rejuvenation therapies targeting age-related hearing loss.

BRAIN Center Poster Awards

Congratulations to Kelena Klippel, who won 1st Place in the BRAIN Center Poster Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Brain Injury Research at UF COM Celebration of Research…

2025 Residency Match

Congratulations to Rafael Abdelnor, who matched in Family Medicine Residency- HCA Florida Ocala Hospital (class of 2025-2028)…

UF Health Cancer Institute Predoctoral Award

Qingchen Yuan was awarded the UF Health Cancer Center Predoctoral Award for his research “Role of Clonal Hematopoiesis-Derived Macrophages in Colitis-Associated Cancer” at The UF Health Cancer Center’s annual Research Showcase.