Featuring: Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD, Nasreen A. Syed, MD

Featuring: Christopher Holt, MD, David K. Meyerholz, DVM, PhD, Sergei Syrbu, MD, PhD, Yiqin Xiong, MD, PhD

Featuring: David K. Meyerholz, DVM, PhD

Featuring: John Blau, MD, Matthew Krasowski, MD, PhD, Osorio Lopes Abath Neto, MD, PhD, Anna Merrill, PhD, DABCC, David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD, Meredith Parsons, MD, Kai Rogers, MD, PhD, Nasreen Syed, MD

Featuring: Laila Dahmoush, MBChB, Rachel Fitzjerrells, BS, Ashutosh Mangalam, PhD

August's recipients include: Lisa Blake, Matthew Krasowski, and Heather West.

Dr. Kai Rogers, a resident in the Pathology physician-scientist training program (PSTP), has received an NIH/NINDS grant award through its R25/UE5 funding mechanism. The University of Iowa R25/UE5 program, entitled “Carver College of Medicine Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (CNS-TP)” is led by Drs. George Richerson and Kumar Narayanan in the Department of Neurology. This program acknowledges the critical need for physicians to be involved in basic research on human brain disease and provides direct support toward this goal. It provides funding for residents in any department if their research is in any area aligned with the goals of the NINDS. Its major purpose is to increase the number of physicians performing disease-oriented neuroscience research, and to decrease the time for physician-scientists to obtain independent funding (K Awards, R01s, etc.).

Stephanie van de Wall, Ph.D. was the lead author of the study. Co-authors include Scott Anthony, Lisa Hancox and Lecia Epping from the Harty lab, Vladimir P. Badovinac Ph.D., also from U. Iowa Pathology as well as Ryan Langlois (U. Minnesota) and Dietmar Zehn (Technical University of Munich). The work was supported by grants from the NIH to VPB and JTH.

Dr. Harty received a new five-year grant from the NIH entitled “Mechanisms of compromised CD8 T cell responses to vaccination in malaria experienced hosts.” The award totals $3,442,760, the project started June 24, 2024 and concludes April 30, 2029.

Nastaran Daneshgar successfully defended her doctoral thesis in early June and graduated from the Experimental Pathology Ph.D. Program. Her thesis, Klotho-Sirt1-CHK2 Pathways in the Regulation of Cardiac Function in Aging and Post-Myocardial Injury, focuses on aging and cardiac function, offering promising insights into potential therapeutic interventions for age-related cardiac diseases. She conducted her thesis work in the laboratories of Dr. Dao-Fu Dai and Dr. Chad Grueter, utilizing a combination of human tissue, mouse models, and human-derived stem cell models.