AAAS to Induct Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD, Chair of Department

Garcia-Blanco is a leading researcher into how genetic material called RNA influences immunity to disease. He made headlines in June for discovering a key factor that determines our risk for multiple sclerosis – advancing efforts to better treat and prevent the often debilitating disease. Shortly before that, his team made an important discovery about the transmission of dangerous dengue viruses, revealing how the saliva of carrier mosquitoes can thwart the human immune system and make it easier for people to become infected. Congratulations!!!

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Shoutout to MIC Student Nadia Holness!

Congratulations to Nadia Holness, graduate student in Sarah Ewald's lab, on being selected for the highly competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship. Holness’ project is designed to understand how a cell recognizes that it is infected. She hopes to learn why some microbes within the host cell are detected and destroyed while others in the same cell evade immune clearance.

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Graduate student Johnson Ung receives an F99/K00 Award.

Johnson Ung, who is a graduate student in the Loughran lab will receive a prestigious two year F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award from the National Cancer Institute in September 2023. Johnson’s project is entitled ‘Mechanisms and In Vivo Efficacy of Synergistic Acid Ceramidase and Bcl-2 Inhibition in Acute Myeloid Leukemia’. Congratulations Johnson!

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