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Congratulations to Dr. Holger Russ for receiving the NIH UG3 grant for his research titled “Understanding thymic epithelial and hematopoietic stem cell-intrinsic immune abnormalities”. …

Congratulations to Dr. Lee Sweeney and collaborators for receiving the NIH P50 grant for his research titled “Addressing Shortcomings of AAV Gene Therapies for the Muscular Dystrophies”. Dr. David Hammers is also a leader on this grant. Congratulations!…

The Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics is proud to announce that Qingchen “Jeremy” Yuan, has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to receive in the 2025 ASH Graduate Hematology Award, part of ASH’s investment hematology research and the next generation of hematology physicians and scientists.

Congratulations to Dr. Nikhil Urs for becoming a new Co-Director of the BMS Pharmacology & Therapeutics concentration.

Congratulations to Sarah Sniffen, from the Wesson Lab, for receiving the Don Tucker Memorial Award for outstanding graduate student presentation at the annual Association for Chemoreception Sciences meeting. AchemS is the largest organization dedicated to research in the chemical senses and this award is given to one graduate…

Congratulations to Dr. Moehle and his lab for recently having their manuscript titled “Early A-synuclein aggregation decreases corticostriatal glutamate drive and synapse density” accepted in the Neurobiology of Disease journal.

Congratulations Austin Kratz, from the Russ Lab, for being awarded a training spot on the Diabetes/Bioengineering T32. …

Congratulations to Sultan Khanfar, from the Oliveira Lab, for winning The Barry Goldwater Scholarship , the nation’s most prestigious undergraduate award in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering! Scholars are recognized for demonstrating outstanding potential to become future leaders in research. He was also selected for the Amgen…

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. …

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…