Mike Holinstat, Ph.D., recently co-authored an article, "An age-progressive platelet differentiation path from hematopoietic stem cells causes exacerbated thrombosis", that was posted in CELL.

In emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country, clinicians make split-second decisions about which antibiotics to give a patient when a life threatening infection is suspected. Now, a study reveals that these decisions may have unintended consequences for patient outcomes.

Nicholas Kolbman (Ph.D. student, Pal and Mashour Labs) and Kassidy Jungles (Ph.D. student, Green Lab) have recently been selected as Rackham Predoctoral Fellows.

Kassidy Jungles (Pharmacology Ph.D. student, Green Lab) has been featured in the most recent Center for the Education of Women+ newsletter.

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

Please join the department in congratulating Dr. Emily Jutkiewicz, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Chair for Education, on her appointment as the inaugural Pfizer Upjohn Research Professor of Translational Pharmacology!

Please welcome our newest postdoc, Dr. Cagney Coomer. She will be receiving postdoctoral training in Dr. Kevin Jones’s lab.

Dr. Matt Brody receives the inaugural Pfizer Upjohn Early Career Research Professorship of Molecular Pharmacology

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

Anthony Rosenzweig's lab is awarded one of three national AHA Center grants

Anthony Rosenzweig, M.D., has paper come out on the cover of Science Translational Medicine

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.

Juan Valentin-Goyco (Ph.D. student, Auchus Lab) recently had his PhD thesis paper shown as the cover article of Biochemistry this month.

Kassidy Jungles (Ph.D. Student, Green Lab) inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society

Michelle Hastings, Ph.D., receives Pfizer Upjohn Research Professorship in Pharmacology