December 2010 – Research instructor Carie Facemire, PhD, and assistant professor Andrea Azcarate-Peril, PhD, have been approved for funding by the University Research Council. Grants will fund Facemire’s project “Regulation of blood pressure by vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2” and Azcarate-Peril’s work on “Impact of ileocecal resection ICR on bacterial diversity of small bowel and colon microbiota of conventionalized C57 Black 6 wild-type mice.”