STUDENTS
Shea Gilliam Davis received the APS/NIDDK Travel Fellowship Award to attend the Experimental Biology meeting in April 2009.
Karl Pendergrass received a travel award from APS to attend the Experimental Biology meeting in April 2009.
Amy Arnold won the 2008 Mary A. Bell award for the best poster presentation in the Systems Category at the Western Neuroscience Society Poster Day.
Karl Pendergrass was awarded the 2009 Carolyn tum Suden/Francis A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award.
Graduates students David Soto Pantoja and Aaron Trask graduated earning their PhD’s in December 2008.
David Soto Pantoja won the Lucy Robbins Award. The award is given in memory of Lucy Robbins who was the wife of Dr. Mike Robbins a faculty member of the Radiation Oncology department. The award was established to provide support for Ph.D. students focusing on cancer research in any department who have demonstrated not only outstanding academic and research expertise, but also interpersonal skills, collegiality and commitment to excellence.
Amy Arnold received the Forest Pharmaceuticals New Investigator Travel Award.
Amy Arnold received the ASPET Graduate Student Travel Award for the Experimental Biology 2009 meeting.
At the Surgical Sciences Sixteenth Annual Residents' and Fellows' Research Day, David Soto Pantoja won the Silver Award with his poster entitled “Angiotensin-(1-7) Inhibits Triple Negative Tumor Growth Through the Inhibition of Angiogenesis and a Reduction in Placental Growth Factor PIGF”
Graduate students, Amy Arnold and Aaron Trask were awarded the Merck New Investigator Award for the 62nd Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research in association with the Council on Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease.