Nagham Farah receives prestigious 2025 Henderson Award

August 22, 2025

The Graduate Programs Committee has selected Nagham Farah from the Genetics and Developmental Biology Graduate program as the recipient of the 2025 Henderson Award. This award is given annually to the student with the best dissertation in the Biomedical Science PhD program. The title of her dissertation was “Cerebellar Hemisphere Formation: Purkinje Cell Diversity and the FOXP Code”.  The award was established in honor of Dr. Edward G. Henderson, a member of the Pharmacology Department and one of the first faculty members of the University of Connecticut Health Center.  Nagham did her Thesis work in Dr. James’s Li lab and, upon graduation, accepted a postdoctoral position at Yale University.

42^nd Annual Biomedical Science Graduate Student Research Day

August 20, 2025

The 42^nd Annual Biomedical Science Graduate Student Research Day took place on August 20, 2025.  The following students from The Genetics and Developmental Biology Graduate Program presented posters, Sanjucta Adak (Beaudoin Lab), Allison Andrade (Miura Lab), Rachael Massey (Pinter Lab), Martina Miranda (Li Lab)  and Zengshuo Mo (Guo Lab).  In addition, an oral presentation was given by Sarah Alshawi from the Beaudoin Lab.  The day ended with announcements and award presentations.  The Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences was proud to have a faculty and former student recognized.  Dr. Pedro Miura received the 2025 Osborn Award for excellence in Biomedical Science Graduate teaching and Dr. Nagham Farah received the 2025 Henderson Award for the best dissertation in the Biomedical Science Ph.D. program. 

More details at UConn Today