Dr. Anurag Singh Receives OTD-HTS Ignition Award
Kudos to Anurag Singh, Ph.D., on being awarded the OTD-HTS Ignition Award for his proposal on “Identification of Subtype Selective Therapeutic Agents for Pancreatic Cancer.” This award covers the costs of HTS Core sevices for a Full and/or a Pilot HTS screen. Dr. Singh is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental […]
Richard Wainford Receives 2013 APS Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award
Congratulations to Richard Wainford, Ph.D. for being selected as the recipient of the American Physiological Society’s 2013 Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award. Established in 1998 in memory of Shih-Chun Wang, a renowned neuroscientist and pharmacology professor, this award recognizes an individual demonstrating outstanding promise in the field of central nervous system physiology. Dr. Wainford will […]
Casey Carmichael to Receive the 2013 Caroline tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award from the American Physiological Association
Hats off to Casey Carmichael who has been chosen to receive the 2013 Caroline tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award from the American Physiological Association! The award is one of three based on abstract submissions that are offered by the APS for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Casey was selected by the Women in Physiology […]
Dr. Richard Wainford to Receive the American Physiological Society Central Nervous System Section’s 2013 New Investigator Award
Congratulations to Richard D. Wainford, Ph.D., FAHA, on being selected to receive the American Physiological Society Central Nervous System Section’s 2013 New Investigator Award. This award is given to an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career who has made meritorious contributions to the field of the study represented by the Central Nervous […]
Stefan Yohe joins Bayer’s Berkeley site as a Process Development Engineer
Stefan Yohe, a graduate student working under the supervision of Dr. Mark J. Grinstaff in the Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology, recently completed the Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. degree and Biomolecular Pharmacology training program. In November he successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Superhydrophobic Materials for Drug Delivery”. Stefan received multiple job offers from all over the […]
Richard Wainford Named International Society for Hypertension New Investigator for December
Congratulations to Dr. Richard Wainford on being selected as the International Society for Hypertension’s December 2012 New Investigator. Richard recently received recognition for presenting the Best Poster at the 2nd International Society for Hypertension New Investigators Symposium. Dr. Wainford is an assistant professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine, Division of […]
Cottone/Sabino Laboratory of Addictive Disorders Paper is NIDAIRP Hot Paper
“Antagonism of Sigma-1 Receptors Blocks Compulsive-Like Eating,” a paper in the November 2012 issue of Neuropsychopharmacology, coauthored by Drs. Pietro Cottone, Valentina Sabino and members of their Laboratory of Addictive Disorders, is November’s Featured Paper on the National Institute of Drug Abuse’s Intramural Research Program “Hot Paper” website. Congratulations on job well done! For more […]
$10.5 million bolsters breast cancer research at BUSM
Anurag Singh, Ph.D., and Hui Feng, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professors in the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, work in the Dahod Breast Cancer Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine. The research center is the recipient of a $9.5 million endowment to “understand the causes of breast cancer and develop prevention strategies and new treatments.” […]
Richard Wainford honored with Best Presented Poster Award at the 2nd International Society of Hypertension New Investigators Symposium
Last month, Dr. Richard Wainford attended the 2nd International Society of Hypertension New Investigators Symposium in Sydney Australia. Sponsored by the International Society of Hypertension, the New Investigators Symposium honors promising new investigators (within 10 years of graduation) who have made significant scientific contributions in the field of hypertension. For more information on Dr. Wainford and […]
Angelo Blasio presents at annual SfN Meeting: “Addiction Drug Could Curb Binge Eating”
Angelo Blasio, a Post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders, presented this past week at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans. Yahoo!News featured his research in an article shortly thereafter: “For the study, rats were turned into binge eaters consuming about four times as much food as other rats by being fed a […]