Author Archives: Betsy Clarke

Dr. Hazelton successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Engineering Probiotic Yeast for Targeted Oral Protein Delivery in IBD,” under the guidance of Dr. Juliane Nguyen!

The article, “The Effect of Case-Based Instruction on Physician Assistant Pharmacology Education," was published in Cureus Journal of Medical Science, a Springer-Nature journal.

Dr. Martin successfully defended his PhD thesis, "Changing The Guardian's Playbook: Dissecting How Cancer Driver Rewire p53 Gene Regulatory Networks," under the guidance of Dr. John Morris IV!

Dr. VanKeulen-Miller successfully defended her PhD thesis, "The Dynamic Cell as a Contextual Variable in the Mechanism and Efficacy of mRNA Lipid Nanoparticles," under the direction of Dr. Owen Fenton!

Congratulations to Amy Aponte, Mckenzie Gehris, Anh Luu, Ryan Robb and Michael Sturdivant for your well earned recognition!

Dr. Bellinger successfully defended her PhD thesis,"Structural, Functional, and Transcriptional Responses of Nucleus Accumbens Microglia to Long-access Cocaine Self-Administration," under the guidance of Dr. Kate Reissner!

Dr. Aponte successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Post-translational Regulation of the RB Tumor Suppressor in Response to CDK4/6 Inhibition" under the mentorship of Dr. Mike Emanuele!

Dr. Wang successfully defended her PhD thesis, "Decoding Cancer Biology Using Single-Cell Multiomics" under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Brunk.

Congratulations to Dr. Terry Kenakin on being named a Fellow of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (FASPET) as part of the 2025 Fellows Class.

Congratulations to Dr. Yinglong Miao for earning major media attention for his team’s groundbreaking study revealing, for the first time, how G-protein complexes detach from activated GPCRs—a key step in cell signaling.