Dr. Sivapriya Kailasan Vanaja has been awarded an NIH R01 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease entitled, “Bacterial modulation of noncanonical inflammasome”.
Dr. Vijay Rathinam has been awarded an NIH R21 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease entitled, “Characterization of Noncanonical Inflammasome-mediated Release of Armins”.
The Office of Faculty Affairs takes the opportunity throughout the year to celebrate UConn Health faculty. Each faculty member they spotlight has been selected from recent nominations received from our department chairs, center directors, and educational leadership. Our own Dr. Lynn Puddington was selected for this recognition. Watch Faculty Spotlight Video.
Congratulations to Dr. Joel Pachter on receiving a National Multiple Sclerosis Society grant award entitled, “Extracellular Vesicles and hES-MSCs as Novel Tools to Aid in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Secondary Progressive Disease”.
Our own Maria Xu, Ashley Russo and Cory Brennick received awards for their participation in the 2017 Graduate Student Research Day. Well done to all participants! Maria Xu – First prize for her poster presentation. Ashley Russo – Third prize for her poster presentation and recipient of the Lepow award. Cory Brennick – First prize for best oral presentation.
Ashley Russo received the 2017 Lepow Award at the Graduate Student Research Day held on June 26, 2017. This award, established in 1986 in honor of Dr. Irwin H. Lepow, a well-known faculty member, research and founding father of UConn Health, is given to the outstanding fourth-year student in the Biomedical Science Ph.D. program. Ashley is a graduate student in the Department of Immunology under the mentorship of Dr. Vijay Rathinam (pictured with Ashley).
Congratulations to Maria Xu, an M.D./Ph.D. student in Dr. Anthony Vella’s Laboratory, who has received an American Heart Association (AHA) Clinical Health Profession Student Training Grant Award for her exciting project centering on the interface of immunology with vascular biology. This AHA Predoctoral Fellowship Program aims to enhance the integration of research with clinical training for students who intend careers as physician-scientists by providing two years of stipend and project support. Her team-based scientific proposal will probe the role of T cells and cytokines in early atherosclerosis and will be performed in collaboration with Drs. Patrick Murphy, Beiyan Zhou, and Anabelle Rodriguez of the Center for Vascular Biology and Immunology departments.
The Office of Faculty Affairs takes the opportunity throughout the year to celebrate UConn Health faculty. Each faculty member they spotlight has been selected from recent nominations received from our department chairs, center directors, and educational leadership. Our own Dr. Vijay Rathinam was selected for this recognition. Watch Faculty Spotlight Video.
