MCIP Grad Group at UC Davis

Congratulations to our awesome MCIP students, Aki Chaffin, Carly Hennessey, and Jacopo’s Di Lucente, for passing their Qualifying Exams!

Congratulations, Maryam Moshref for receiving the Schwall Dissertation Year Fellowship in Medical Research for 2018-19!

This year’s Annual MCIP Colloquium was full of exceptional speakers and presentations. We were honored to have Dr. Holly A. Ingraham, Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF, as our keynote speaker. Congratulations to Kuei-Pin Huang (Dr. Helen Raybould lab) and Arik Davidyan (Dr. Sue Bodine lab) for winning the best talk awards and to Danica Ito (Dr. Rose Dixon lab) and Lu Ren (Dr. Nipavan Chiamvimonvat lab) for winning the best poster awards!

MCIP Highlights from this month: Karlton Larson (a fourth year MCIP student from Dr. Karen Ryan’s lab) received the 2017-2018 Irving J. Hertzendorf Memorial Award in Physiology for his outstanding qualities as a scholar and as a humanitarian. Hannah Ledford (a fifth year MCIP student from Dr. Nipavan Chiamvimonvat’s lab) received the 2017-2018 Loren D. Carlson Prize in Physiology for her dissertation on Regulation of Cardiac Potassium Channels in Health and Disease.... Congratulations, Karl and Hannah!

Congratulations to MCIP student, Arik Davidyan, for receiving the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award!