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  5. July 2018

July 2018

Parimal Chowdhury, PhD.

Parimal Chowdhury, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Cellular Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, has been invited by the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases (ISPTID) to present a talk in their 14th Annual meeting to be held in Izmir, Turkey, October 4-6, 2018.
Dr. Chowdhury is a member of the Scientific Committee of ISPTID and serves as an American Regional Director of the society. The title of Dr. Chowdhury’s presentation is : A model of pancreatitis and pancreatic oncogenesis following exposure to Nicotine

Dr. Chowdhury recently presented a paper entitled: Radiation-induced endothelial dysfunction markers are differentially modulated by simulated microgravity” in 2018 Experimental Biology meeting, held in San Diego, California from April 21-25, 2018

Dr. Franco

Congratulations to  Dr. Aime Franco on her promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!

More Great News for the Franco Laboratory, as their R01 application “MAPK Pathway modulation in thyroid tumorigenesis” was funded by the NIH (NCI). Congratulations!

Zachary Nickell

Congratulations to Zachary Nickell from the Franco Lab on his acceptance to graduate school. Zach will be attending Florida Atlantic University in the fall to join their Ph.D. program in Evolutionary Biology.

Congratulations to Caitlin Caperton, a M.D./Ph.D. student in the Franco lab on the awarding of her fellowship for the SPaT Program. Her project will focus on the role of Ras in the development of follicular thyroid cancer and novel therapeutic approaches to treat advanced Ras-driven thyroid tumors.

Posted by Chris Lesher on July 16, 2018

Filed Under: Department News

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