Elisabeth Paymal

Elisabeth Paymal joined the Center for RNA Biomedicine as its public relations specialist in 2020. Prior to this role, she was the communication manager for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, a USAID project, and the head of communications for the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity, in Paris.

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Portrait of Ford Hannum, Ph.D.
Department News
Congratulations to Ford Hannum, PhD, for defending his dissertation!
Friday, June 21, 2024, D. Ford Hannum, Ph.D., defended his dissertation titled “Applications of emerging transcriptomic technologies and methods to gain insight into the human reproductive system."
Nicole Koropatkin, PhD, (left) and Brenda Franklin (right), recipients of M&I 2024 EBS Awards
Department News
Announcing M&I 2024 EBS Awards: Congratulations to Nicole Koropatkin, PhD, and Brenda Franklin!
M&I is proud to announce that Nicole Koropatkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, and Senior staff specialist Brenda Franklin were honored by the EBS with awards on Wednesday, July 17th.
Portrait of Professor Emerita Kathy Spindler
Department News
Katherine Spindler, PhD, is M&I Professor Emerita
Spindler's laboratory pioneered work on a mouse model of adenovirus infection that enables study of pathogenesis in the natural host and identified host susceptibility genes, mechanisms of blood-brain barrier disruption and evasion of a host antiviral response.
Caity Holmes, left, and Daniel Jorge, right
Department News
M&I AdMIration awards for Winter 2024 go to Caitlyn Holmes, Ph.D., and Daniel Macedo de Melo Jorge, Ph.D.
M&I AdMIration awards recognize two non-faculty individuals who have contributed to M&I departmental community and made it a better place to study science together. Congratulations to Caitlyn Holmes, Ph.D., and Daniel Macedo de Melo Jorge, Ph.D., for being named the Winter 2024 M&I AdMIration award winners.
Department News
New Epigenomic Metabolic Medicine Center to speed understanding of genes and disease
The new Epigenomic Metabolic Medicine center (EM2C) will contribute to understanding how genetic variations contribute to common, complex diseases such as diabetes