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 1,000 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.
Dr. Ju Chen has been selected as a recipient of the 2019 AAI Careers in Immunology Fellowship. This award provides one year salary support for Dr. Chen’s work in the study of IL-17 in colorectal cancer development and therapy.