Dr. Con Yost’s cover of Blood
Please check out this edition of Blood and Dr. Yost’s beautiful cover.
Congratulations to Dr. Joe Yost!
Dr. Joe Yost has been awarded the 2020 Gary C. Schoenwolf Mentorship Award by the University of Utah Health Department of Pediatrics. This award recognizes sustained commitment to mentoring and the success of trainees.
U2M2 Investigators Find Platelets are Activated During COVID-19
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Campbell for his COVID-19 in Blood https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/doi/10.1182/blood.2020007214/461106/Platelet-Gene-Expression-and-Function-in-COVID-19
Great news for Dr. Allie Grossmann
Dr. Grossmann received an R01 score of 4% (payline for early stage investigator is 15%). This score qualifies her for the R37 MERIT award, which allows eligible early stage investigators the opportunity to obtain up to 7 years of support in two segments, with the first being an initial 5-year award and the second being…
Congratulations Dr. Robert Campbell on your ISTH appointment!
Robert Campbell, Ph.D. has been designated an Early Career Committee Vice-Chair for the ISTH and will serve two years before becoming the Chair of the Early Career Committee.
Dr. Corrine Welt has been appointed Endowed Chair in the Department of Internal Medicine
Upon the recommendation of Senior Vice President, Michael L. Good, Dr. Welt has been appointed holder of the George E. Cartwright, MD Endowed Chair in the Department of Internal Medicine, effective December 1st, 2019. This appointment is a five-year term and is also renewable. Please join us in wishing Dr. Welt felicitations in her new…
Congratulations Dr. Aylin Rodan!
Dr. Rodan has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Lazaro J. Mandel Young Investigator award. The American Physiological Society’s Lazaro J. Mandel Young Investigator Award was established in 1999, in memory of Lazaro J. Mandel, to recognize an individual demonstrating outstanding promise in the field of epithelial or renal physiology.
Congratulations Wendy Zhu, PhD!
The National MS Society has authorized an award in response to her recent Research Grant application (RG-1907-34532) entitled, “Stabilizing the Blood-Central Nervous System Barrier to Treat Multiple Sclerosis.” Please join us in congratulating this great accomplishment!
Congratulations to Elizabeth Leibold, PhD
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14004-5 Check out Betty Leibold’s newly published article in Nature Communication.