Jianyu Yu, a Ph.D. candidate in the Molecular Medicine Graduate Program at the University of Iowa under the mentorship of Dr. Bing Li, has received a Travel Award to attend the 4th Metabolic Dysregulation and Cancer Risk (MeDOC) Consortium Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, where he delivered a short podium presentation.

Featuring: Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; Abdelrahman Barakat, MBBCh; John Harty, PhD

A recent study published in Cancer Research by Drs. Jiaqing Hao and Bing Li in the Department of Pathology at University of Iowa provides fresh insight into how specific dietary fats shape triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) behavior.

Connor Wilhelm, Experimental Pathology PhD candidate in Alex Boyden’s lab, has received a travel grant from the National MS Society to attend this year’s Autumn Immunology Conference (AIC) in Chicago, where he will present a poster and short talk.

Featuring: Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; Abdelrahman Barakat, MBBCh; John Harty, PhD

Featuring: Vladimir Badovinac, PhD; Andrew Bellizzi, MD; Ravi Tej Bommu, MD; Aaruni Khanolkar MBBS, PhD; Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD; Steven Moore MD, PhD; Anand Rajan KD, MBBS; Rostislav Ranguelov, MD; Abdullah Thayyil, MD

October's recipients are Tarique Abdalla and Heather Lai

On Friday, October 17, we celebrated our Medical Laboratory Science students who received the David and Pamela Buhr Medical Laboratory Sciences Excellence Fund. Hanna Gee and Lexi McIntyre are fourth year students in the program who will begin clinicals next semester. Hanna will be completing her clinicals here in Iowa City and Lexi will be finishing her final year and clinicals through our partnership with Mercy College of Health Sciences.

Payton Kahl successfully defended her M.S. thesis on October 3rd, 2025 and completed the Pathology M.S. Program.