News, Achievements, and Upcoming Events

Dr. Zhiyu Dai was recently chosen as an awardee for the American Health Association Career Development Award for his project titled Role of Endothelial Fatty Acid Binding Proteins in the Pathogenesis of PAH! This project is ranked on 0.21% percentile which means that Dr. Dai surpassed 99.79% of other applicantions received by the AHA. The award is for 3 years and guarantees $231,000 to aid in his research. 

Dr. Jennifer Stern was invited to give a webinar on her lab's research for Mercodia titled Glucagon Signaling in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in which over 200 attendees from around the world joined to watch! Click the image to watch the recording of the webinar!

Kyle Smith of the Simpson Lab has been chosen as an awardee of the 2020 NASA Space Physiology Research Grant provided by the American College of Sports Medicine Foundation! More about the award here: 

Dr. Michael Grandner has been mentioned in multiple media and press outlets such as TIME, US News, The New York Times and hundreds of others recently for his work and studies! Find more of his work and mentions at his website:

Dr. Janet Funk, in collaboration with NY Times reporter Dawn MacKeen and her editor, worked on a feature about the Medicinal Effect of Tumeric, which Dr. Funks lab focuses on throughout the year! Find the story here:

Current students' awards and achievements:

• Ike Chinyere: 2016 Honors College Alumni Legacy Grant Award (2016), Solutions Challenge (2016), InnovateUA: PitchFest (2016), Best Research Project by an Honors Student (2017), Pillar of Excellence Award (2017), First Place Presentation - Graduate Medical Education (2018), RA Williams Scholarship for Medical Students (2018)
• Claire DeLucia: NIH T32 Training Grant: Interdisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Research (2017-2018, 2018-2019)
• Michael Flood:  NIH T32 Training Grant: Interdisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Research
• Andrew Flores: Achievement Award for College Scientists (ARCS 2015-16, 2016-2017, 2017-2018)
• Gabriel Kelly:  NIH T32 Training Grant: Interdisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Research
• Matthew Klass: University Fellows Award (2016-2017), NIH T32 Training Grant: Interdisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Research (2017-2018)
• Alexander Pendleton: NIH T32 Training Grant: Interdisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Research (2017-2018), Achievement Award for College Scientists Award (2019-2020), Herbert E. Carter Travel Award (Fall 2019)
• Megan Sylvester:  MD-PhD Jeffrey-Bunt Scholarship (2017-2018), Medical Award of Excellence (2015-Current)
• Kate Smith: Achievement Award for College Scientists (ARCS 2015-16, 2016-2017, 2017-2018), NIH T32 Training Grant: Interdisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Research,
• Joshua Uhlorn: University Fellows Award (2016-2017), McGuire Entrepreneurship Program and received the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Scholarship (2017), NIH T32 Training Grant: Interdisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Research (2017-2018), Herbert E. Carter Travel Award (Fall 2019)

Recently graduated students' awards and achievements:

• Matthew Bull: Achievement Award for College Scientists (ARCS 2015-16)
• Daniel Hill: ARCS Foundation Graduate Scholars Award (2018-2019)
• Maura Cotter: Herbert E. Carter Travel Award (2017), NIH T32 Training Grant: Interdisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Research
• Nicole Jacobsen: American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017)
• Sarah Lehman: Sarver Heart Center Fellowship (2015-16), ARCS Eller Family Scholar Award (2016-2017), ARCS Lauber/Templin Foundation Scholar Award (2017-2018), APS Writing Skills Course Travel Award (2017)
• Melissa Lynn:  American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017)
• Dennis Pollow: Achievement Award for College Scientists (ARCS 2014-2015, 2015-2016), American Heart Association, PreDoctoral Fellowship (2014-16)
• Candy Rivas:  Porter Physiology Development Fellowship (2016-2017, 2017-2018), SACNAS (Society for the Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science) Travel Award (2016), Minority Travel Fellowship from the APS, the Donald Sheer Research Award (2017)

• Lila Wollman: Herbert E. Carter Travel Award (2016), Donald Sheer Memorial Research Award (2017)

Stop by our virtual booths at these graduate school fairs in the fall!  

UA Graduate School Fair
October 21 | Online via Handshake

Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
October 19-24 | Online - Look for UA Graduate College

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
November 9-13 | Online- Look for UA Graduate College

PS Fall 2020 Student Forums will be held via zoom from 11:00am-12:00pm. 

Fall 2020