Dr. Maria Croyle, LCID Faculty Member and Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Glaxo Wellcome Professor in the College of Pharmacy, recently received the Best Research Paper Award from the University Co-op as part of its Research Excellence Awards.
The Best Paper Award recognizes extraordinary achievement by a faculty member or staff researcher who was the principal or sole author of a peer-reviewed scholarly paper reporting original research that was published between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021.
Congratuations to Dr. Laura Fonken is this year's recipiant of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Frank A. Beach Early Career Award!
This award recognizes an early-career scientist who has established an independent research program which exhibits the potential for continued significant impacts on the field of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. Dr. Fonken’s research focuses on how interactions between the
The Washington Post and Texas Monthly recently featured articles on LCID Member Jason McLellan and his contributions to the development of an RSV vaccine with National Institutes of Health viral immunologist Barney Graham. The articles looked at the beginnings of McLellan’s partnership with Graham when they worked together at NIH in 2008 and the challenges they faced in developing the vaccine as well as the promising results that have come from recent human trials of RSV vaccines based on their research. The Texas Monthly article also looked at other research
Congratulations to Dr. Micky Marinelli for recieivng a 2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award!
The College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award celebrates the members of the CNS faculty that excel in the classroom. Recipients of CNS Teaching Excellence Awards are educational innovators, who embody and demonstrate commitment to CNS's mission: To provide an excellent, research-oriented education in science, mathematics and computing that fosters the success of its students, to discover important new knowledge through research and to create an intellectually and
LCID Members Jennifer Maynard and Walter Fast recently received grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas for their cancer research. Dr. Maynard's lab received $3.9 million, which will go towards new equipment to aid the lab's work in creating antibodies against cancer. A grant of $250,000 was awarded to the Fast Lab, led by Dr. Fast, which will go to the lab's graduate students who are translating Dr. Fast's research into a usable drug to treat cancer.
Dr. Audrey Duarte's lab published a research article in Journal of Cognitive Neurosceince entitled "Neural Reinstatement of Overlapping Memories in Young and Older Adults". This research investigatted why older adults have more difficulty resolving competition between relevant and irrelevant memories. Duarte's lab used used Encoding-Retrieval Similarity (ERS) analysis – which measures the similarity of neural patterns during encoding and retrieval – to better understand how young and older adults process memories. They found that older adults’ susceptibility to old
Our researcher, Crystal Wilson, has been recognized by the College of Natural Science for a photograph she has taken of some of her metastatic cancer mice! Congratulations Crystal!
