A first-author paper by MD/PhD student Kurt Prins was published in TheJournal of Cell Biology on August 10, 2009. A figure from the paper was featured on the front cover. MD/PhD student Christopher Wilke is first author of a paper published in the August 2009 issue of Clinical Neurophysiology. An editorial discussing the paper is published in the same issue.
Ten MD/PhD students are recipients of NIH Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellowships:
John Albin - 2009-2013 (National Institute on Drug Abuse) John is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Program. His research examines the role of APOBEC3 proteins in HIV-1 drug resistance.
Joan Beckman - 2007-2011 (National Institute on Aging) Joan is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Program. Her research focuses on vascular inflammation and blood vessel stasis that occurs in patients with sickle cell disease and transgenic sickle mice.
Daniel Beisang - 2009-2012 (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of General Medical Sciences partnership) Daniel is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Program. His research will focus on evaluating the role of mRNA decay in regulating expression of cytokine genes in T lymphocytes.
Christopher DeNucci - 2008-2011 (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Chris is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Program. His research project, "The role of beta1 integrin in modulating gut-homing alpha4beta7 on T cells " focuses on investigating the molecular mechanisms by which T cells acquire and regulate integrin expression.
Kristin Gehrking - 2006-2011 (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Kristin is in the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics Graduate Program. Her resaerch focus is spinocerebellar ataxia type I (SCA1), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by gait abnormalities, incoordination, and problems with speech, swallowing, and breathing.
Michelle Hamline - 2009-2012 (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) Michelle is in the Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics Graduate Program. Her research focuses on elucidating the molecular events leading to proper cardiovascular development and examines how these events are disrupted in congenital heart disease.
Lisa Jasperson - 2008-2011 (National Institute on Aging) Lisa is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Research Program. Her research focuses on the role of IDO in the age-related increase in severity of graft-versus-host disease.
Ava Yun Lin - 2009-2014 (National Institute on Aging) Ava is in the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Graduate Program. Her research focuses on spectroscopic probes of protein-protein interactions in muscle degeneration.
Oludare Odumade - 2009-2011 (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease) Dare is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Program. Her research focuses on the role of CD8+ T cells in response to EBV-induced infectious mononucleosis.
Jared Rowe - 2009-2015 (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Jared is in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Program. His research focuses on the role of regulatory T cells in autoimmune diabetes
Jeannette Zinggler Berg - 2006-2010 (National Institute on Drug Abuse) Jeannette is in the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Graduate Program. She is broadly interested in the mechanisms of carcinogenesis.
Benjamin al-Haddad was awarded a 2009-10 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship by the Graduate School. His area of focus is development strategies and population health dynamics.
