Tom Biel, Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Jae-Sung Kim’s lab, received a Silver Award during the 39th annual UF College of Medicine Medical Guild Research Symposium April 3. Tom’s work investigates the changes in Sirtuin 1 expression during liver ischemia/reperfusion injury.
Congratulations to Dhivya Sudhan, Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Siemann’s lab. She was named a Madelyn Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship and Association for Academic Women’s Emerging Scholar Finalist.
Congratulations to Debbie Otero, Senior Biological Scientist, and Brett Looney, former program assistant in the Department of Pharmacology! They are both 2014 recipients of the Superior Accomplishment Award for outstanding and meritorious service to the department.
Jeremy McIntyre, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, was awarded a K99/R00 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders. Dr. McIntyre’s research is focused on developing gene therapies in order to restore the sense of smell.
