News and Announcements
Mahtab Toulany, MD, is Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation’s Newest Michael Geisman Fellow
Dr. Mahtab Toulany, Research Technologist in Dr. Roy Morello’s lab, was recently awarded the OIF’s Michael Geisman Fellowship. Her wonderful profile, and details of her award are found on page 15 of the latest issue of Breakthrough.
Congratulations to Dr. Aric Anloague, Ph.D.!
Dr. Anloague, from Dr. Jesus Delgado-Calle’s lab, successfully defended his dissertation, “Local Crosstalk Between Osteocytes and Multiple Myeloma Cells Drives Tumor Growth and Bone Destruction” on June 26th, 2026. He will leave UAMS on July 17th to join Dr. Megan Weivoda’s lab at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN as a postdoctoral fellow. There, he will continue research in multiple myeloma. We wish Dr. Anloague every success as he takes this next exciting step in his career.
Physiology Summer Students Light Up the Labs in 2026
The Physiology and Cell Biology Department welcomes 17 summer students this year.
Bagchi Lab shines again at the 2026 American Physiology Summit!
Somaya Ibrahim represented the Bagchi Lab at the annual American Physiology Summit held in Minneapolis last month. Two highly competitive abstracts were submitted for the meeting from very divergent projects. Somaya earned four oral presentations and two poster presentations from these. In addition, both of her abstracts received the highly coveted “Abstract of Distinction” recognition. […]