New targeted therapies for pain, Parkinson’s disease, and depression carry the promise of greater benefit for patients without serious side effects.
The annual Pharmacology Award Ceremony and Holiday Celebration was held at the Kenan Center Thursday evening, December 12, 2013. Five awards were given for Staff Excellence and Graduate Student Citizenship.
Rebecca Sinnott, a member in Angelique Whitehurst’s lab, successfully defended her thesis December 4, 2013 and received her Ph.D. The title of her thesis is “Mechanisms that promote liberation of mitotic stress-induced death.” Congratulations, Rebecca!
In a paper published in Nature Neuroscience on November 10, Juan Song discovers how baby neurons stay alive, a key finding for understanding neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.
Lauren Parker Huff, a member of Adrienne Cox’s lab, successfully defended her thesis November 4, 2013.
Bryan Richardson, a member of Gary Johnson’s lab, defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. November 6, 2013.
Klaus Hahn (Pharmacology), John Sondek (Pharmacology), Keith Burridge (Cell and Developmental Biology), Alan Hall (Sloan-Kettering Institute), and Gaudenz Danuser (UT Southwestern) have been awarded a 5-year Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to study GEF/Rho GTPase signaling circuitry.
The graduate students hosted the Pharmacology annual Halloween party. There were prizes for best costumes and winners of a variety of games. The prize for the best costume went to 5 members of the Cox lab who dressed up as “the central dogma of biology.”
Congratulations to Pei-Hsuan Chu, a member of Klaus Hahn’s lab, who successfully defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. October 24, 2013.
Dr. Gerald M. Rubin, Vice President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute gives the Luminary Scientist Distinguished Lecture Seminar.
