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Medical School News
In the second season of The Fundamentals podcast, co-hosts Kelly Malcom and Jordan Goebig talk to several leading experts from the Medical School about their fields and the fundamental questions they are trying to answer — and discover why U-M is such an amazing place for research. Six new episodes of the popular podcast were released on May 6
The Fundamentals
Dr. Jody Platt. She is an Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. Trained in medical sociology and health policy, her research focuses on issues at the intersection of informatics and ethics. She is interested in understanding what makes data-driven health trusted, and the pathways for earning, achieving, and sustaining trust across stakeholders. Dr. Platt is the Academy Health and ABIM Foundation Senior Scholar in Residence advising on issues of measuring and building trust.
The Fundamentals
Today on The Fundamentals is Dr. Maria Castro, the R.C. Schneider collegiate professor of neurosurgery, and a professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research program aims to develop immunotherapies for primary and metastatic brain cancer, studying basic immune biology mechanisms leading to clinical implementation. She has been inducted into the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the Latin American Academy of Sciences, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. She has won numerous awards for her contributions to basic science and cancer research and is a diversity ambassador for the Cancer Biology Graduate Training Program.
You can learn more about Dr. Castro here, and you can follow her @castro2355_mg, the Rogel Cancer Center @UMRogelCancer, the department of neurosurgery @umichneuro, Michigan Neurscience Institute @UM_MNI and the department of cell and developmental biology @UMCDB on X
Medical School News
Four with Medical School ties are among 12 University of Michigan faculty and staff members recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as 2023 fellows in recognition of their extraordinary achievements.
Department News
Subhash (Parent Lab) was selected as the 2024 Thermo Fisher Trainee Achievement Award recipient.
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A new publication by Seth Teague (Heemskerk Lab) was published in Nature Communications.
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A publication from the Yadlapalli Lab has been published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments.
Medical School News
Six members of the University of Michigan community were inducted into the National Academies of Practice (NAP) as Distinguished Fellows in a ceremony held on March 16, 2024 in Jacksonville, Florida as part of the Annual NAP Meeting and Forum. The group includes faculty and clinicians from the University of Michigan, University of Michigan-Flint and Michigan Medicine.
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A new publication from the Bazzi Lab was published in eLife.
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Charlie (Spence Lab) successfully defended her thesis.
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A new publication from the Bazzi Lab has been published in Genesis: The Journal of Genetics and Development.
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Sarah (Melanie Ohi Lab) was awarded the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.
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A new publication from the Lin Lab has been published in Science Translational Medicine.
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Ziyi (Lin Lab) was awarded the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
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Ye (Yadlapalli Lab) was awarded the prestigious Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.