New & Noteworthy

Congratulations to Ann Pham for successfully defending her dissertation! She will be graduating this Spring.

William is one of our students in our online master’s degree program. He won this award at a recent conference and then a local newspaper picked it up and made it the front-page story. https://www.thecourierexpress.com/news/cebulskie-of-reynoldsville-receives-national-recognition-for-pediatric-research/article_edf32242-c12b-11ee-a354-9358643cfa16.html While his research is not directly related to our program,…

“We congratulate Dr. May Khanna for being appointed to serve the College as the inaugural Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation”…

Dr. Raj Khanna is one of our new professors in the department. Welcome!…

Dr. May Khanna is one of our new associate professor in the department and will be serving the College as the inaugural Assistant Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Welcome!…

Dr. Jessie Barra received an Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is a highly competitive career transition award, from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Dr. Barra is a postdoc in the Russ lab. Congratulations Jessie on this terrific honor!…

Both of the 2024 Thomas H. Maren M.D. Research Excellence awards from the College of Medicine were received by members of our Department. Dr. Jessie Barra received the Thomas H Maren Research Excellence Post-doctoral award from the College of Medicine. Dr. Daniel Kopinke received the Thomas H Maren…

Research led by Olga Guryanova’s lab was selected by the Journal of Experimental Medicine, a top journal in biomedical research, as one of the best papers in 2023. See the publication here. Congratulations Dr. Guryanova and team!…

NIH is pleased to announce that a simplified review framework will be implemented for grant receipt deadlines of Jan. 25, 2025 and beyond. The simplified framework is expected to better focus peer reviewers on the key questions needed to assess the scientific and technical merit of proposed research…

Congratulations to the Papke Lab for their recent publication titled, “The Many Enigmas of Nicotine.” This publication discusses the diverse effects of nicotine on the various nicotinic acetylcholine receptors of the central and peripheral nervous system and how those effects may promote…