Current Faculty Announcements
Congratulations to the following faculty for their recent honors and accomplishments -
Dennis Discher has been named the Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
The following PGG members were recently welcomed to Penn's 25-Year Club - recognition of faculty and staff who have been members of the University community for 25 years:
Marc Dichter
Stephen Thom
David Weiner
Daniel Rader - along with a fellow Penn professor, and researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin received a $9 Million NIH Grant to Study the Relationship Between Gene Variants and Cardiovascular Disease. Also of note Dr. Rader was recently elected as a new member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine.
Mark Kahn's work on bird blood for clues to preventing human cardiovascular disease was recently featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Ted Abel was recently appointed as the Brush Family Professor of Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Tracy Bale is the recipient of the 2011 Richard E. Weitzman Memorial Award.
We are proud to announce that three of this year’s recipients of the Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence are members of the PGG. Our special congratulations go out to Klaus Kaestner, Ph.D.; Caryn Lerman Ph.D., and Steven Siegel, M.D., Ph.D. of the Pharmacology Graduate Group as the recipients of the following awards -
Research
· Stanley N. Cohen Biomedical Research Award to Klaus H. Kaestner, Ph.D., of the Department of Genetics
· William Osler Patient Oriented Research Award to Caryn Lerman, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychiatry
Clinical
· Leonard Berwick Memorial Teaching Award to Steven Siegel, M.D., Ph.D., of the Department of Psychiatry
Current Student Announcements
Awardees of the 2011 John S. O'Brien Research Awards at the 28th Annual Symposium were Ania Warczyk for Best Oral Presentation, and Melissa Love for Best Poster Presentation.
2nd year student, Laura Castellano is a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.
Alumni Announcements
2010 graduate Nan Wu is to be honored as a 2011 recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.
Armen Karamanian, wins 2008-2009 Wharton Business Plan Competition and rings NASDAQ bell Pictured here with Wharton Team.
Jennifer Oliver-Krasinski, research in the news: Implications for New Diabetes Treatments
