Congratulations to the Papke Lab for their recent publication titled: “Pharmacological profiles and anti-inflammatory activity of pCN-diEPP and mCNdiEPP, new alpha9alpha10 nicotinic receptor ligands.” Inflammation-induced pain can be alleviated by targeting specific receptors in immune cells that control the…
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics doctoral candidate Victoria Leroy (Sharma Lab) along with Laura Falceto Font (Cancer Biology – Flores Lab) have partnered up in hope to gain hands-on industry experience during their training. To help achieve their goal of applying their research backgrounds in the world of…
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Holger A. Russ, Ph.D. of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. In early August, Dr. Russ added the title of “Honorary Senior Research Fellow” at the University of Birmingham UK. Dr. Holger Russ is interested in elucidating the underlying mechanisms that lead to the…
Congratulations to the Guryanova Lab for their recent publication titled ”Hematopoietic-specific heterozygous loss of Dnmt3a exacerbates colitis-associated colon cancer” Researchers at the University of Florida College of Medicine have discovered how common age-related changes in the blood system can make certain colon cancers grow faster. The…
Congratulations to Dr. David Hammers, Dr. Brian Law, Dr. Nikhil Urs, Dr. Roger Papke, and Dr. Lee Sweeney. Standing InnOvation celebrates innovators who are changing the world. This year marks the sixth year honoring innovators who have disclosed, licensed, or optioned a technology in the fiscal year just ended and…
Congratulations to Alessandra Norris on being accepted to the Building Future Faculty in STEM program. About the program: The Building Future Faculty in STEM program is a comprehensive four-day program for scholars from historically underrepresented groups in STEM to experience an introduction to the particulars of a faculty career…
Congratulations to Victoria Leroy on her recent NRSA F31 grant. Victoria is a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Ashish Sharma. This grant was awarded by the NIH NHLBI to support Victoria’s research on monocytic-MDSCs as resolution mediators of post-transplant lung ischemia-reperfusion injury.
Please join us for the Doctoral Defense of Yixiao Wang. Date: Thursday May 25th 2023Time: 11:30 AMLocation: ARB R5-265…
Congratulations to Dr. Papke on his invitation and participation in the European Psychoneuroimmunology Network monthly seminar. He presented his seminar titled “Functions of desensitized nicotinic acetylcholine receptors” on April 18th, 2023. The presentation took place at the Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior which is a joint research…
Congratulations to the Moehle lab for their recent publication titled “The muscarinic M4 acetylcholine receptor exacerbates symptoms of movement disorders” The research found the following perspectives: The development of M4 selective compounds is an exciting and important development for the investigation and treatment of movement disorders.
