Dr. Cansler was awarded a prestigious three-year fellowship from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to study the brain mechanisms that allow for selective attention to odors. In her postdoctoral NRSA F32 fellowship, titled, “Odor-Directed Attention and the Medial Prefrontal Cortex,”…
Congratulations to pharmacology concentration student Betty Wang, who received a silver medal at the 44th Annual Medical Guild of the College of Medicine Graduate Student Competition! It was held April 10 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the…
Joe Flores-Toro, one of our very own graduate students, had his abstract accepted for the ASPET Division for Cancer Pharmacology Young Investigators Symposium. His abstract was also one of ten from each host society chosen to be featured early at the welcome reception for the event. His abstract is titled, “CCR2…
Joe Flores-Toro, a graduate student in the Harrison lab, was the recipient of a Best Poster award at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-oncology. The title of his presentation was “The combination of CCR2 antagonist and PD-1 blockade prolongs survival in immune checkpoint inhibitor resistant…
One of our department’s graduate students, Betty Wang, won two very prestigious and competitive awards: a UFHCC Pre-doctoral Award and an International Student Achievement Award. The UFHCC Predoctoral Awards are awarded annually to up to five graduate students. These awards are intended to recognize and support outstanding predoctoral candidates who…
One of our professors, Dr. Roger Papke, has just released a new publication titled, “Macroscopic and Microscopic Activation of a7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors by the Structurally Unrelated Allosteric Agonist-Positive Allosteric Modulators (ago-PAMs) B-973Band GAT107,” in Molecular Pharmacology. Read it here!…
We would like to welcome Dr. Daniel Kopinke to the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics! For information on him and his research, please visit his faculty page.
On April 13, a graduate student in the department of pharmacology and therapeutics, Mengxiong “Betty” Wang, won the bronze prize at the Medical Guild Competition. Guided by her mentor, Brian Law, Ph.D., she presented her research, A Novel Proteotoxic Combination Therapy for EGFR+ and HER2+ Breast Cancers.
In honor of World Cancer Day, Dr. Roger L. Papke was honored by his hosts in both Mumbai and Delhi with organized symposiums during his visit. On Thursday, February 1st 2018, a symposium on arecanut was held at Healis Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health. Dr. Papke was one of the…
