The Amanda Hope Skolnick Undergraduate Award is given annually to honor the memory of Amanda Skolnick, who worked as a Laboratory Assistant in the Department of Pharmacology while an undergraduate at ...
Andrew Johnson successfully passed his Ph.D. examination on Friday, February 17, 2012. His thesis title was "Protection against Angiotensin II-induced Endothelial Dysfunction and Hypertension via Smal...
Dr. Ann Bonham ('86 Ph.D. Pharmacology), a former graduate student in the College of Pharmacy and a Pharmacology graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Michael J. Brody, will receive the University...
Benjamin Weidemann, an undergraduate student in Justin Grobe's laboratory, received a 2012 summer research American Heart Association Fellowship for his project entitled, "Homeostasis of Glucose Level...
Beth Oberg successfully passed her Ph.D. examination on Friday, November 16, 2012. Her thesis title was "Regulation of Protein Phosphatase 2A by Proteasomal Degradation". Members of her thesis committ...
Caitlin Runne, a Pharmacology graduate student in the laboratory of Assistant Professor Songhai Chen was awarded the best poster award at the 50th annual MIKI Medicinal Chemistry meeting held recently...
Colin M.L. Burnett, MS (M1) medical student in the laboratory of Assistant Professor, Justin L. Grobe, PhD received the "Outstanding Presentation in Pharmacological Research" award for his presentatio...
The Department of Pharmacology seeks highly qualified applicants for two tenure track faculty positions at the assistant, associate or full professor level in the area of neuroscience. Preferred areas...
Dr. Songhai Chen, an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine, has received an Idea Development award entitled: "Targeting G-Protein Signaling for the Therapeutics ...
Congratulations to Dr. Curt Sigmund for his recent renewed designation as a Carver Research Program of Excellence (RPOE) for 2012-2016. This Trust-funded initiative is intended to recognize meritoriou...
Dr. Justin L. Grobe, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, has received a Pathway to Independence Research Transition award (R00 phase) entitled: “Central Renin-Angiotensin System:...
Stella-Rita Ibeawuchi, a Ph.D. graduate student in Curt Sigmund’s laboratory, received another year on an Institutional Training Grant entitled, “Predoctoral Training in the Pharmacological Sciences.”
Drs. Anne Kwitek, Ph.D., and Kamal Rahmouni, Ph.D., Associate Professors of Pharmacology received another year of funding from the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center. Dr. Kwitek’s proj...
Viviane Muniz successfully passed her Ph.D. examination on Thursday, November 8, 2012. Her thesis title was "Role of Parf, a Novel Partner of ARF, in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and in ARF Signal...
Qi Wu, Ph.D. joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor on Jan 9. His research interests are in the neurobiology of feeding behavior. Dr. Wu is the inaugural hire of the University of Iowa Obesity I...
Drs. Dawn Quelle, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Pathology and Yuriy Usachev, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Anesthesia each received a Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabet...
Sara Reed, an M.D., Ph.D. graduate student in Dawn Quelle’s laboratory, received a three-year individual Predoctoral National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health for her proj...
Ricardo Peña Silva successfully passed his Ph.D. examination on Thursday, May 31, 2012. His thesis title was "Cardiovascular Oxidative Stress: Recent Findings on ACE2 and MAO". Members of his thesis c...
Dr. Rory Fisher, a professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine, has renewed an R01 grant entitled: "Molecular Analysis and Role of RGS6 as a Novel Growth Suppressor" for 5 years...
Caitlin Runne, a Ph.D. graduate student in Songhai Chen’s laboratory, received a two-year position on an Institutional Training Grant entitled, “Interdisciplinary Training Program in Pain Research.”
Sara Francis, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Dawn Quelle, has received the Sandra H. Barkan Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award. This award, named for former Associate Dean of the G...
Shannon Harlan, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Kamal Rahmouni, was awarded the best poster award at the University of Iowa Postdoctoral Association (UIPDA) Research Day. ...
Many drugs work by “fixing” a particular biological pathway that’s gone awry in a disease. But sometimes drugs affect other pathways too, producing undesirable side effects that can be severe enough t...
Andrew Slupe, a graduate student in Dr. Stefan Strack’s laboratory, won for his poster “Catastrophic convergence of multiple regulatory pathways following ischemic injury in neurons”. The other autho...
Justin Grobe, Ph.D. joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor on June 1. His research interests are to define the mechanisms a) by which the brain and systemic renin-angiotensin systems regulate en...