Immunology

Congratulations to Dr. Vijay Rathinam on receiving an NIH R01 grant titled “Host-derived extracellular vesicles in inflammatory caspase activation”.
Congratulations to Dr. Vijay Rathinam for being named to a list of the world’s most highly-cited researchers. Read more.
Congratulations to Ashley Russo for winning the Young Investigator Award at the 2019 New England Immunology Conference.
Dr. Kepeng Wang received a SPARK Technology Commercialization Fund Award for his proposal entitled, “Using GM-treg cells for the treatment of Crohn’s disease”.
We welcome Dr. Jianbin Ruan as assistant professor to the Department of Immunology. Dr. Ruan’s research focuses on the structural and mechanistic study in the emerging field of cytoplasmic innate immune signaling, especially signal transduction pathways of pyroptosis and inflammation using multidisciplinary tools including cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, and other biochemical and biophysical methods.
We welcome Dr. Zhichao Fan as assistant professor to the Department of Immunology. Dr. Fan’s research lies in the field of leukocyte trafficking and inflammation which he examines using advanced microscopy.
James Nevin has received the 2019 Lepow Award at the Graduate Student Research Day. This award, established in 1986 in honor of Dr. Irwin H. Lepow, a well-known faculty member, researcher and founding father of UConn Health, is given to the outstanding fourth-year student in the Biomedical Science Ph.D. Program. James is under the mentorship of Dr. Pramod Srivastava.
Dr. Chuan Li received the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Travel Award for Young Investigators for his abstract presentation during the Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine 2019 Scientific Sessions in Boston, MA. Only 10 recipients were selected from close to 1000 presenters at this conference. Dr. Li is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Beiyan Zhou’s lab.

Dr. Li has been asked to re-present his abstract at the American Heart Association Conference.

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