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Research News

May, 2013


Wednesday, May 1

Faculty Meeting


Friday, May 3

CongZhen Qiao, Lucchesi Lab

Title: Atorvastatin-induced Heart Function Impairment


Wednesday, May 8

Faculty Seminar

Dr. John Tesmer

Title: Regulation of Effector Enzymes by the Heterotrimeric G Protein Gαq


Friday, May 10

Alisha Griffin, Traynor Lab

Title: Interactions between Mu and Delta Opioid Receptors


Wednesday, May 15

Dr. Shaomeng Wang

Title: Drug Discovery in Academia: How to Make an Impact in the Development of New Medicines


Thursday, May 16

SASS Seminar (Faculty Only)

Dr. Les Satin

Title: The Dual Oscillator Model of Pulsatile Insulin Secretion: Experimental Tests and Challenges

Location: 2955 GAP Center


Friday, May 17

Dissertation Defense

Rheaclare Fraser, Gnegy Lab

Title: Functional Characterization of N-terminal Threonine Mutations in Human Dopamine and Norepinephrine Transporters


Friday, May 24

Special Pharmacology Seminar

Time: 2:00pm

Dr. Tom Wilkie, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Title: Rgs8-16 - Regulators of Glucose Homeostasis and HTS Biomarkers for Pancreas Development, Cancer and Diabetes


June, 2013


Friday, June 7

40th Annual Pharmacology Research Colloquium at Wayne State University




Wednesday, September 14, 2011

12:00 - 1:00 PM, room 2736 MS II

Dr. Vincent Groppi, Ph.D., Vice President and CSO Essen Bioscience

Title: Temporal Pharmacological Analysis of Angiogenesis and Metastasis

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

12:00 - 1:00 PM, room 2736 MS II

Dr. Vincent Groppi, Ph.D., Vice President and CSO Essen Bioscience

Title: Temporal Pharmacological Analysis of Angiogenesis and Metastasis

Congratulations to David Auerbach, Postdoctoral fellow in the Isom’s lab, who is the recipient of the 6th Annual Courts K. Cleveland SADS Foundation Young Investigator Awards in Cardiac Channelopathies. More information...


Congratulations to Dr. Richard Neubig who is the recipient of the 2013 Pharmacia-ASPET Award for Experimental Therapeutics. More information...


Congratulations to Drs. Stephen Fisher, Ben Lucchesi, and Donna Shewach who have been inducted into the League of Educational Excellence. More information...


Congratulations to Dr. Peggy Gnegy the Outstanding Teaching Award in Pharmacology from the Endowment for the Basic Sciences.


Congratulations to Helen A. Baghdoyan, Ph.D. for receiving a 2013 MICHR Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor Award. Read More....


Congratulations to Dr. Lori Isom for receiving the Rackham Distinguished

Mentor Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Hollenberg
, who has been elected as 2012 Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Read More....


Congratulations to Jeff Martens for receiving the Rackham Graduate School’s 2012 Faculty Recognition Award. Read More...


A recent paper from Jeff Marten’s lab in Nature Medicine shows the ability of gene therapy to restore the sense of smell to a congenitally anosmic mouse model. Read More...


The University of Michigan has announced a new Center for the Discovery of New Medicines (CDNM) with Rick Neubig as director. This center will coordinate and support drug discovery and development efforts across campus. Read More ...


Congratulations to Roger Sunahara, Ph.D., who is the recipient of the 2012 Basic Science Research Award.


Congratulations to Chris Canman, Ph.D., who has been promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure, in the Department of Pharmacology.


Congratulations to Haoming Zhang, Ph.D., who has been promoted to Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology.


Congratulations to Jeremy McIntyre, Post-doctoral fellow in the Marten’s lab, who is the recipient of the Polak Young Investigator Award from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS).










 

Congratulations:


Larisa Kruger was awarded a 2013 PhRMA graduate fellowship.


Larisa Kruger was awarded a graduate research fellowship from the Epilepsy Foundation.


Jason Kehrl is a featured member in this months’ “The Pharmacologist”.


Sylvia Radzikowski has been awarded a Rackham Travel Grant on March 1, 2013.


Sarah Mikelman has been awarded a Rackham Conference Travel Grant on March 1, 2013.


Yen Truong has been awarded a Rackham Travel Grant.


Jason Kehrl was awarded a Graduate Student Travel Award .


Andrew Storaska was awarded a Rackhm Conference Travel Grant on December 18, 2012.


Andrew Haak has been awarded a Rackham Conference Travel Grant on November 21, 2012.


Jenny Lamberts received the 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award.


Ariell Joiner (Martens lab) won Best Poster Presentation at the 39th Annual Pharmacology Research Colloquium.


Andrew Haak (Neubig lab) won Best Oral Presentation at the 39th Annual Pharmacology Research Colloquium.


Andrew Storaska has been awarded a Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant.


Diane Calinski and Jason Kehrl are recipients of the February 2012 Pharmacology Travel Award competition (Thomas Baum Travel Award).


Ryan Frieler who has been awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.


12:00 to 1:00pm , 2736 FSSC,

unless otherwise noted