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Camron Bryant Receives 2013 IBANGS Outstanding Junior Faculty Travel Award
Congratulations to Dr. Camron Bryant on receiving the Outstanding Junior Faculty Travel Award for the 2013 International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) in Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Bryant was selected to present his work at the special oral Awardee presentation session on May 21. In addition to a stipend to cover his travel expenses, Dr. […]
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 […]
Matthew Whittaker, Ph.D., Pharmacology/ Toxicology Reviewer, US FDA
Dr. Matthew Whittaker completed his undergraduate studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA in 2000 with a B.A. in Biology. He joined the laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University School of Medicine in 2003, where he studied in the Program in Biomedical […]
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 […]
Shelley J. Russek, Ph.D. Participates in Transcriptomics: Assessing Genomic Networks in Normal and Diseased Brains Short Course at 2012 SfN Annual Meeting
Congratulations to Dr. Shelley J. Russek on her participation in “Transcriptomics: Assessing Genomic Networks in Normal and Diseased Brains” Short Course #1 at the 2012 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting on October 12, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Russek co-chaired the Group 2 Breakout Session on “RNA-seq Insights into Complex Diseases.” Dr. Russek is […]
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 […]