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Program News
2011-12
Congratulations to this year's PhD graduates-Melda Onal, Jinhu Xiong, Shubhra
Chaudhuri, Shannon Rose, and Omar RahalCongratulations to the 2012 IBS Student Research Symposium winners:
Senior Division Winner
Nandini Sakurikar
Role of Cdk1 and Bcl02 Proteins in Mitotic Cell Death.
Cancer Biology Track, Advisor: Dr. Tim Chambers
Senior Division Runner-up
Shubhra Chaudhuri
nNos and HIF-1 Alpha Induction in Acetaminophen Toxicity in Mice
Clinical & Translational Sciences Track, Advisor: Dr. Laura James
Junior Division
Winner
Adam Brown
A Potential Role for Thyroid Hormone in Colon Cancer Prevention Through KLF9
Induction
Cancer Biology Track, Advisor: Dr. Frank Simmen
Junior Division Runner-up
Faith McDaniel
Elevated Palmitate Impairs Melanocortin-4 Receptor (MC4R) Function in
Hypothalamic Neurons
Cell Biology Track, Advisor: Dr. Giulia Baldini
2010-11
William Atchley, a M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Dr. Michael
Owens, received a Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award from the
National Institutes of Health.
Shimul Chowdhury, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of
Dr. Charlotte Hobbs, received the Wilson Presentation Award for Predoctoral
Students at the 50th Teratology Society Annual Meeting.
Kevin Kim, a M.D./Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of
Dr. Mayumi Nakagawa, received a 2011 Midwest Trainee Travel Award to attend the
CSCR/MWAFMR combined annual meeting.
Tanecia Mitchell, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of
Dr. Lee Ann Macmillan-Crow, received a Society for Free Radical Biology and
Medicine Young Investigator Award for the 17th Annual Meeting.
Andrew Norwood received a Behavior, Biology and Chemistry
conference travel award.
Melda Onal, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Dr.
Charles O'Brien, received the 2010 ASBMR Presidents's Award.
Agnieszka Zielinska, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory
of Dr. Mark Smeltzer, received an American Heart Association Predoctoral
Fellowship.
A profile of our M.D./Ph.D. student Kevin Kim was
published on the Graduate School web site at:
http://www.uams.edu/update/absolutenm/templates/news2003v2.asp?articleid=9998&zoneid=29
William Atchley, Chad Cragle, Amanda Elton, Rawad Hodeify,
Tanecia Mitchell, Melda Onal, Shannon Rose, Nandini Sakurikar, and Jinhu
Xiong received UAMS Graduate School Travel Awards.
Congratulations to the 2011 IBS Student Research Symposium winners:
Senior Division Winner
Shannon Rose
Decreased glutathione-mediated redox capacity and elevated reactive oxygen
species in primary immune cells from children with autism.
Cell Biology Track, Advisor: Jill James, Ph.D.
Senior Division Runner-up
Rawad Hodeify
Cdk2-dependent phosphorylation of p21 regulates Cdk2 role in cisplatin
toxicity.
Cell Biology Track, Advisor: Peter M. Price, Ph.D.Junior Division
Winner
Nandini Sakurikar
Role of cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (Cdk1) and anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins in
mitotic cell death.
Cancer Biology Track, Advisor: Tim Chambers, Ph.D.
Junior Division Runner-up
Klressa Barnes
Hyperthermia enhanced image-guided laser-ICG therapy.
Cancer Biology Track, Advisor: Gal Shafirstein, Ph.D.
2009-2010
Omar Rahal, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Dr. Rosalia CM
Simmen, has been selected as a recipient of a highly competitive Pre-Doctoral
Fellowship award from the United States Department of Defense Breast Cancer
Program for his project "Dietary Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor PTEN Network
and Tumor Initiating Population in the Mammary Gland: Implications for Breast
Cancer Prevention." The award of $129,000 will cover Omar's graduate stipend,
tuition, and graduate fees for a period of three years.
Avis Simms, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Kelly, has
been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller
Institute Breast Cancer Fellowship.
Shimul Chowdhury and Scott Helms have received UAMS Graduate
School Travel Awards.
A profile of our student Shannon Rose was published on the Graduate School website at
http://www.uams.edu/update/absolutenm/templates/news2003v2.asp?articleid=8974&zoneid=29.
Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2010.
Click here to view a
composite and list of 2009-10 students.
2008-09
Congratulations to Kevin Kim, Shannon
Rose, and Omar Rahal who will serve as Graduate Student Association officers for 2009-10.
Congratu lations to
the following students who won awards at the 2nd annual Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student
Symposium held May1, 2009.
Senior Division
1st Shashank Jain
2nd Rawad Hodeify
Junior Division
1st Tanecia Mitchell
2nd Shimul Chowdhury
Congratulations to Omar Rahal who received a UAMS 2008 Graduate Student
Research Funds grant and a 2008 ACHRI Student and Clinical Staff Research Grant.
Congratulations to Sherin Boctor who was awarded a Neurobehavioral Teratology Society Conference Award for the Monterey, California 2008 meeting.
Congratulations to Sherin Boctor, Rawad Hodeify, Anna Mazur,
and Omar Rahal who received UAMS Graduate School travel awards during
2008.
2007-08
Congratulations to Lindsay Pack and Shannon
Rose who will serve as Graduate Student Association officers for 2008-09.
The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences program graduated our first
graduates on May 17, 2008. Lauren Bailey and Cassie Jackson received their
M.S. degrees.
Congratulations to Shashank Jain and Rawad Hodeify who placed 1st
and 2nd in the 1st annual Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student
Symposium held March 14, 2008.
2006-07
Congratulations to IBS students Lauren Bailey and Shashank Jain
who are Graduate Student Association officers for 2007-08.
Congratulations to Lindsay Bradshaw who won third place
overall for graduate student oral presentations at the 91st meeting of the
Arkansas Academy of Science.
Congratulations and thanks go to Melda Onal, Sherin
Boctor, and Shashank Jain for presenting posters at the UAMS COM
Student Research Days 2007.
Congratulations to Tanecia Mitchell for being selected to attend the American
Physiology Society Short Course "Making Scientific Presentations: Critical First
Skills", March 8-11, 2007 in Bethesda, MD. She had her travel and meeting
expenses paid by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Thanks to Lauren Bailey who headed up an effort to adopt a Head Start
classroom for Christmas as part of the Little Rock Head Start Program. All
the IBS students contributed to the effort to buy and distribute gifts to this
good cause.
Click here to view pictures from the IBS picnic held August 26, 2006.
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