Achievements and announcements
Congratulations, Jaiden Christopher!
Jaiden Christopher (CMB) is a Robert E. Dickenson Scholarship 2024-2025 awardee.
Congratulations, to our Graduate Dean’s Merit Scholarship 2024-2025 Awardees!
- Elizabeth Jennings (Biochemistry)
- Sushila Baral (CMB)
- Allison Bartlett (CMPP)
- Chase Firoe (CMPP)
- Simindokht Aliabadi (CMPP)
- Sarah Weiby (CMB)
2024-2025 Graduate Dean’s Awardees
Several incoming MBS graduate students have received Graduate Dean’s awards for the 2024-2025 academic year. Billiah Bwana was awarded a Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, a one-year award of $45,000, including an out-of-state tuition waiver. Students Axel Munoz and Jennifer Stevens were recipients of the Graduate Dean’s Merit Scholarship, a one-year award of $10,000.
Graduate Dean’s fellowships and merit scholarships are awarded to master’s and doctoral students with an outstanding academic record and who show strong promise in their scholarship. Congratulations to our awardees!
2024-2025 Graduate Dean’s Merit and Robert E. Dickenson Scholarship Awardees
Graduate Dean’s Merit Scholarship 2024-2025 Awardees
- Elizabeth Jennings (Biochemistry)
- Sushila Baral (CMB)
- Allison Bartlett (CMPP)
- Chase Firoe (CMPP)
- Simindokht Aliabadi (CMPP)
- Sarah Weiby (CMB)
Robert E. Dickenson Scholarship 2024-2025 Awardee
- Jaiden Christopher (CMB)
Biomedical Researcher Awardees
Several foundation awards were presented recently to members of the Molecular Biosciences Graduate Program engaged in biomedical research:
- Majid Kahn, MD/PhD, CMPP Program) and Chase Fiore, CMPP Program: Wiener Biomedical Graduate Scholars
- Allison Bartlett, CMPP Program: Glen E. Whiddett Biomedical Award
- Kabita Adhikari, CMB Program: Crain Biomedical Research Scholar
- Ryan Durbin, Integrative Neuroscience Program: Dr. Charles and Mary Marshall Award
Congratulations to these Biomedical Researcher Awardees!
$2.3 million in NIH funding awarded to researcher to advance hypertension research and treatments
, associate professor, departments of pharmacology, and physiology and cell biology at University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno School of Medicine was awarded a competitive, four-year, $2.3 million grant from the (NIH) to support her research on increased sympathetic nervous system activity which has been found to be a primary precursor of hypertension. Congratulations on this award!
Robert Renden, Ph.D. receives $1.5 million NIH grant
Robert Renden, Ph.D., a University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno School of Medicine researcher and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology faculty member, has received a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant award to explore how mitochondria support synaptic function in the healthy brain and advance new approaches in the study of some diseases. Congratulations on this impressive award!
Congratulations, Caleb J. Worker, on your first-place win!
Caleb J. Worker (PI: Yumei Feng Earley) won first place and $500 in the 11th annual George G. Bierkamper Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Retreat at the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno.
Presentation title: Neuronal (Pro)Renin Receptor Deletion Attenuates Astrogliosis And Inflammation In The Arcuate Nucleus Of Mice Fed With High Fat Diet
Congratulations to our two Graduate Dean's Merit Scholars!
Congratulations to Emer Ni Bhraonain (3rd year) and Lauren Parker (1st year), recipients of the Graduate Dean’s Merit Scholarship. The Dean’s award recognizes outstanding academic record and promise of productive scholarship and is awarded annually.
CMPP Program Director Seungil Ro awarded $2 million to continue research on a cure for type 2 diabetes
University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno School of Medicine Associate Professor Seungil Ro, Ph.D., department of physiology and cell biology, has made an important discovery-finding a molecule that can be used to inhibit and treat Type 2 diabetes. This new discovery helped obtain $2 million in funding for project development over the course of the next three years.
The $2 million contract will support Ro, whose lab discovered that Type 2 diabetes can be caused by gastroparesis, a condition where stomach muscles stop working properly and therefore have difficulty moving food from the stomach to the small intestine.
Brian Prince awarded a Graduate Dean's Fellowship
Brian Prince, a Ph.D. student in Cell and Molecular Biology, was awarded a Graduate Dean's Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year. The Graduate Dean's Fellowship for promising, newly admitted Ph.D. students is a one-year award in the amount $35,000 per academic year ($17,500 per semester).
