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Department of Genetics 50th Anniversary Symposium.
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Dr. Rob Mitra Inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows
AIMBE Fellows represent the top 2% of medical and biological engineers. They include the most accomplished medical and biological engineers in academia, industry, education, clinical practice, and government. Congratulations to Dr. Rob Mitra for being inducted on March 31 in Arlington, Va. along with 169 other new fellows from across the United States.
Assistant Professor of Genetics Brett Maricque Receives 2025 Dean’s Impact Award (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to Dr. Brett Maricque for receiving the 2025 Dean’s Impact Award.
Dr. Guoyan Zhao selected for the Hope Center Pilot Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Guoyan Zhao and co-investigator Dr. Hiroko Yano for being selected for the Hope Center Pilot Grant! The project “Identification and validation of drug candidates for repurposing in Huntington disease” will be funded in full $100,000 for the award period of January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026!
Graduate student Emma Casey awarded NINDS Diversity Supplement
Emma Casey, a second year PhD student in the Jin lab has been awarded a highly competitive NINDS Diversity Supplement to work on characterizing and assessing the impact of mitochondrial DNA variations in congenital hydrocephalus. Emma is the first trainee from the Department of Genetics to receive the significant 3-year NIH grant award totaling $225K. Congratulations!
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