December 17, 2025
The Department of Cell Biology and Physiology held its annual holiday party on December 10, 2025. Students, faculty, and staff from the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology gathered on December 10 to show appreciation for each other and celebrate another successful year of research and collaboration. The event included an array of food and …
July 15, 2025
Four CBP PhD Curriculum students received this year’s Cellular Systems and Integrative Physiology (CSIP) T32 (NIH/NIGMS) Training Awards. The mission of the CSIP T32 Training Program is to develop a robust pool of responsible, rigorous scientists who have the skills to investigate the integrative, regulatory, and developmental physiology of higher organisms and their organ systems …
February 25, 2025
O’Brien will map the kidney nerve network from acute injury to chronic disease for the first time in a high-risk/high reward project. Sympathetic and sensory neurons innervate the kidney, with sympathetic neurons playing key roles in regulating blood flow and fluid balance and sensory neurons sending critical information about physiological changes within the kidney to …
February 24, 2025
Understanding the influence of blood vessels on liver recovery may be the first step in developing better treatments for liver injury and solving the problem of why some drugs fail in the pharmaceutical market. The human liver naturally cleanses the body of most toxins, but this comes at a biological cost. Medication, dietary supplements, and …
December 16, 2024
The Department of Cell Biology and Physiology held its annual holiday party on December 11th. Students, faculty, and staff from the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology gathered on December 11th to show appreciation for each other and celebrate another successful year of research and collaboration. The event included an array of food and desserts …
December 5, 2024
CBP graduate student, Kimberly Lukasik, received a National Cancer Institute F99/K00 predoctoral to postdoctoral fellow transition award. Kimberly Lukasik, a graduate student in Stephanie Gupton’s laboratory is the first student from the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology to win a F99/K00 award from the National Cancer Institute. The award supports outstanding doctoral candidates and …
