On May 16, 2024, the Regents of the University of Michigan promoted Melanie Pearson, Ph.D., to Associate Professor on the Research Track, effective September 1, 2024.

Faith Anderson, Jaime Fuentes, and Andrés Rivera Ruiz, M&I Ph.D. candidates, have been awarded prestigious fellowships from Rackham Graduate School, in recognition of their academic excellence. Congratulations, we’re so proud of you!

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.

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

A study builds on previous work that found depriving T cells of iron prevented cells from proliferating. The current study, published in PNAS, found that excess iron is just as problematic.

Four Graduate Program in Immunology alumni participated in a panel discussion about their career paths.

This M&I award recognizes outstanding dissertations.

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

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