William Theune received the 2024 Lepow Award for Outstanding Biomedical PhD Student entering the 4th year of study 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. William studies under the mentorship of Dr. Kepeng Wang.