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Kassidy Jungles, PhD student (Green Lab), has recently been awarded a competitive CEW+ Fellowship for the 2023 school year. This fellowship supports students at the University of Michigan who are conducting research on issues of importance to women. Read more about the fellowship here:

Tenzin Ngodup, Pharmacology PhD student in the Lee lab, recently received the NCI F31 award for his work entitled "Role of hypoxia in fibroblast reprogramming in pancreatic cancer."

Congratulations, Tenzin!

This August, the Department of Pharmacology will have 11 MS trainees graduating from our program, pushing the total number of MS trainees that have graduated from the Pharmacology program over 100! Based upon when each student applied to graduate, Ian Levine will become our 100th MS graduate to earn his Pharmacology degree. Congratulations to all

Dr. Andy Alt, Director of the Center for Chemical Genomics and Assistant Research Scientist in Pharmacology, recently received the OVPR Faculty Achievement Award. Dr. Alt’s discoveries hold significant therapeutic potential for treating opioid addiction. Congratulations, Dr. Alt!

Robert Goldsmith, Ph.D. student in the Brody lab, recently received the 2023 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship. Robert serves as the Director of Professional Development for miLEAD Consulting, a graduate student-led consulting organization. He has helped organize the Midwest Healthcare Case Competition, and received an

During her time in the Pharmacology department, Julie’s research has been broadly focused on understanding how reward centers of the brain drive feeding and how these centers and associated behaviors are changed after exposure to high fat or high sugar diets. She has had a variety of projects including assessing effects of intra-nucleus accumbens

Dr. Kyoung Lee, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, recently received a $1.4M grant from NCI to study the role of low oxygen supply in pancreatic cancer. Read more about the grant here .

Dr. Les Satin, Joanne I Moore Research Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Pharmacology, and Professor of Internal Medicine, recently had a book published for IOP Press. Dr. Satin is an editor (and series chair) for the book "Calcium Signals: From single molecules to physiology". More info can be found here: