Dr. Michael Kovacs has been selected as the 2023 MIC Outstanding Student!

Dr. Michael Kovacs, from Tajie Harris’s laboratory, has been selected as the 2023 MIC Outstanding Student. He received his Award with the Outstanding students from the other BIMS Graduate Programs at the GBS Symposium on March 17th 2023, where he also presented a seminar of his work.

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Shoutout to MIC Student Nadia Holness!

Congratulations to Nadia Holness, graduate student in Sarah Ewald's lab, on being selected for the highly competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship. Holness’ project is designed to understand how a cell recognizes that it is infected. She hopes to learn why some microbes within the host cell are detected and destroyed while others in the same cell evade immune clearance.

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Graduate student Johnson Ung receives an F99/K00 Award.

Johnson Ung, who is a graduate student in the Loughran lab will receive a prestigious two year F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award from the National Cancer Institute in September 2023. Johnson’s project is entitled ‘Mechanisms and In Vivo Efficacy of Synergistic Acid Ceramidase and Bcl-2 Inhibition in Acute Myeloid Leukemia’. Congratulations Johnson!

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