School of Biomedical Sciences
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Jonathan Sweeney wins First Place Original Research Poster at TOMA

Jonathan Sweeney, Med Sci alum and TCOM student, won First Place Original Research Poster at the TOMA Midwinter Conference. His research project was conducted in the lab of Dr. Johnathan Tune, chair and professor of Physiology and Anatomy.
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Isabelle Gorham receives Top TARCC Investigator Poster Award

Isabelle Gorham, MS student in Dr. Nicole Phillips' lab, received the Top TARCC Investigator Poster Award at the 2023 Texas Alzheimer's Research and Care Consortium Symposium. Her poster was titled "Population-specific mitochondrial stress indicators associated with Alzheimer’s disease in Mexican Americans and Non-Hispanic White TARCC participants."
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New team member: Alexus Martin

Welcome to the team! Alexus Martin joins SBS as Academic Student Navigator for the in-person Med Sci program.
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Dr. Caroline Rickards named APS Fellow

Caroline Rickard's, PhD, associate professor of Physiology and Anatomy, was selected as a Fellow of the American Physiological Society (FAPS).
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Dr. Elizabeth Cho awarded postdoctoral fellowship

Elizabeth Cho, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Anatomical Sciences, was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
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Katherine Hernandez receives travel grant

Katherine Hernandez, PhD student, received a "Travel for Techniques" award from the American Association of Immunologists. With the award, she will travel to Georgetown University to learn the lysolecithin induced demyelination model from Dr. Jeffrey Huang, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology. Katherine is a member of the Ortega Lab.
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