Chelsea Herdman awarded NSF poster prize at the RNA Society Meeting 2021
Dr. Chelsea Herdman was awarded an RNA2021 Conference Award sponsored by the US National Science Foundation to support training and innovation in RNA science and bioinformatics
Avery Abelhouzen awarded SDB poster prize
Avery Abelhouzen was awarded 2nd place in the undergraduate poster competition at the Society for Developmental Biology’s 79th Annual Meeting 2020. She was selected as a finalist out of the 601 posters presented this year and competed in a Q&A session to claim 2nd prize for her poster entitled “Loss of jag2b leads to adult-onset…
Dr. Yost awarded an NIH R25 Grant
Dr. Joseph Yost has been awarded a five year NIH R25 grant entitled “Genomics Summer Research for Minorities: A Pathway to Promote Diversity in Science Research. This grant is to bring Underrepresented Minorities undergraduates (12 per year) into a program to give them exposure to Genomics and mentor them to apply to graduate or Medical…
Angie named a Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar!
Dr. Angie Serrano was awarded one of five prestigious Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar transition grants! Congratulations Angie! The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars is a recently established program, now in its second year, that will support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an MD or PhD degree and who have completed a minimum of three…
Chelsea awarded a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Chelsea Herdman was awarded a three year postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2020-2023) for her project entitled “The roles of microRNAs in the regulation of heart development and human congenital heart disease” https://www.canada.ca/en/institutes-health-research/news/2019/05/government-of-canada-invests-in-top-research-leaders-of-tomorrow.html
Angie Serrano awarded AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Angie Serrano has been awarded a 2 year AHA Postdoctoral Grant for the project “The roles of Kmt2d in vasculogenesis.” – July 2018 – June 2020 https://professional.heart.org/idc/groups/ahamah-public/@wcm/@sop/@rsch/documents/downloadable/ucm_432213.pdf
Trisheena Kills Pretty Enemy is being awarded the Daniel Voyich Award for Indigenous Community Involvement
Trisheena, a former NARI (Native American Research Internship – University of Utah) student in the Yost lab, who trained with Angie Serrano summer 2018 is being honoured for her academic excellence and dedication to her family and Crow culture at Montana State University’s 2019 American Indian Council Powwow. Congratulations Trisheena! Read the article from Montana…
