Graduate student Mohsin Ali (CBP Track) has received the 2021 American Society of Bone and Mineral Research Investigator Travel Grant and selection as Plenary Poster Speaker. The major advisor for Mohsin Ali is Dr. Maria Almeida Schuller. Congratulations to Mohsin and mentor Dr. Almeida Schuller for this award!
Department News
UAMS Research Team Upends Understanding of How Blood Clots Form; NIH Awards $2.5 Million for Further Study
A UAMS-led research team has found that blood clots form in puncture wounds similar to a skyscraper, with rooms and furnishings that scientists can now see. Published in Communications Biology, the discovery of the vaulted thrombus (blood clot) structure surprised researchers and is a big change from a long-held hypothesis.
Summer Research Fellowship Student Iad Alhallak Published
Second-year medical student Iad Alhallak is the first author on the article “Breast adipose regulation of premenopausal breast epithelial phenotype involves interleukin 10,” just published in the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. Iad carried out part of the study as a recipient of the Endocrine Society Summer Research Fellowship. The senior author of the study is […]
Amrita Khakurel is First Author on New Article
Second-year graduate student Amrita Khakurel (Cell Biology Track) is the first author of the article entitled “The Golgi-associated retrograde protein (GARP) complex plays an essential role in the maintenance of the Golgi glycosylation machinery” in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Congratulations to Department Graduates and INBRE/SURP Summer Students
We are pleased to honor our recent Ph.D. and Masters Graduates who received their degrees this Spring/Summer 2021.
New Publications in Physiology and Cell Biology
Two manuscripts have been accepted for publication from the laboratories of Dr. Teresita Bellido, Professor and Chair, and Dr. Jesus Delgado-Calle, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology.
Jennings Scholarship Awarded to Caitlin Caperton
Physiology and Cell Biology graduate student, Caitlin Caperton, has been selected by the UAMS College of Medicine Scholarship Committee to receive the Dr. Michael and Paula Jennings Endowed Scholarship for the 2021-22 academic year. Caitlin, an M.D./Ph.D. student, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “The dichotomous role of immune cells in thyroid cancer pathogenesis,” on May […]
Higher Learning Commission
Thank you to Drs. Frank Simmen, Rosalia Simmen, and Jerry Ware for your contribution to the success of the Higher Learning Commission Site Visit. The following is a letter from Provost Stephanie Gardner about the success of the site visit. Dear UAMS colleagues and students, I want to thank all of you who participated in our […]
Physiology & Cell Biology: A New Name and Bright Future for UAMS College of Medicine Department
A basic science department in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has adopted a new name to better represent the expertise of its faculty, research programs and long history of excellent teaching. The name change for what is now the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology was one of the […]
Top Article, Congratulations Dr. Rosalia C.M. Simmen
An article by Dr. Rosalia C.M. Simmen, Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology, and her research team, “Metformin Promotes Anti-tumor Biomarkers in Human Endometrial Cancer Cells,” has been selected as the most popular basic science original article published by Reproductive Sciences in 2020. The study was conducted with postdoctoral fellows Dr. John Mark Pabona (lead […]