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2008 graduate, Hsien Sung Huang, Ph.D., has discovered topoisomerase inhibitors that can unsilence Ube3a in several regions of the central nervous system such as hippocampus, striatum, cerebral cortex, cerebellum and spinal cord. Ube3a is paternally imprinted and maternally active. Loss
Melissa Matzelle, PhD student, will give an oral presentation at the American College of Rheumatology national meeting in Atlanta, Georgia in a Concurrent Session on RA pathogenesis. Melissa is studying pathogenic mechanisms of articular bone destruction in arthritis in Dr.
Melissa Matzelle, a Cell Biology graduate student in the lab of Ellen Gravallese, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology and Chief of Rheumatology at UMass Memorial, was awarded the Abbott Bioresearch Fellowship in Translational Science. This award will support Melissa's
The Hope Scholarship is awarded by the Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP) at Harvard. The Biomedical Science Careers Program (BSCP), founded in 1991, was incorporated as a not for profit organization in 1994. BSCP's first student conference took place in
Two UMMS GSBS students have been awarded the 2010 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. This award is widely regarded by faculty as the highest award that any graduate student in the biomedical
Nang Maung is a fifth year PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. John Leong (MGM). Recently, Nang's abstract was selected for a Travel Grant to attend the 7th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases meeting in Tel Aviv,
Hantavirus research of Dr. Francis Ennis' lab was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal. Read Full Article http online.wsj.com article SB10001424052748703819904574553810498042156.html 0none2009 11 24Of Mice and Men Why Hantavirus is so Deadly
Linzy Hendrickson received the Suzannah Bliss Tieman Award for the best poster by a graduate student at the 17th Northeast Under graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience (N.E.U.R.O.N.) conference, held at Boston Latin School on Nov. 22, 2009. Linzy is a
Charusheila Ramkumar, a graduate student in the Department of Cell Biology, presented a poster titled " Smurf2 deficient mice exibit increased tumorigenesis " at AACR (American Association of Cancer Research) Conference on Frontiers in Basic Research. Charusheila was the first