Katherine Gallagher, MD, is the 2021 recipient of the Gill Heart and Vascular Institute Award for Early Achievements in Cardiovascular Research. The award is presented to investigators for innovation and creativity that has impacted cardiovascular research or advancements in clinical care. Dr. Gallagher, a vascular surgeon and Taubman Emerging Scholar, is the John R. Pfeifer…
Taubman Emerging Scholar Scott Van Epps, MD, PhD, has received $25,000 in seed funding from the U-M Biointerfaces Institute. Dr. Van Epps is an assistant professor in Emergency Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering. He also serves as an investigator for the Biointerfaces Institute and an associate director at the Michigan Center for…
Sriram Venneti, MD, PhD, has been appointed the inaugural Al and Robert Glick Family Research Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. The professorship was established on March 1, 2021, through a gift from the Al and Robert Glick families to honor the memory of Chad Carr, the son and grandson of the Lloyd Carr family,…
Taubman Emerging Scholar Daniel Wahl, MD, PhD, was among six recipients nationwide of the 2021 Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, which recognizes outstanding early-career physician-scientists working to develop new cancer therapies. Dr. Wahl is an assistant professor of radiology who specializes in cancers of the central nervous system. His research particularly focuses on the metabolism…
Taubman Emerging Scholar Brendon Watson, MD, PhD, has received new R01 funding of $450,000 per year from 2021 to 2026, to study stress and depression. The research will focus on brain and body responses to various stressors, measuring more than 50 metrics to observe effects on circadian changes, neural circuits and more. Dr. Watson, a…
Allison Billi, MD, PhD, is the latest Michigan Medicine faculty member to be appointed a Taubman Emerging Scholar. Dr. Billi is an assistant professor of dermatology and scientist studying autoimmune disorders. Her team aims to understand why women are so much more likely to develop autoimmune disease than men, and they are looking into skin…
Thursday, December 16, 5-6 pm via Zoom Join us for the latest Taubman Technology Talk, featuring Jun Lee, PhD. Click here for free Zoom registration. Dr. Lee’s talk, “See Everything Quickly through SEQ-Scope — Microscopic Examination of Spatial Transcriptome,” discusses a technique he and his team have developed. It uses high-throughput sequencing, instead of a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the special challenges facing early-career faculty who are balancing family caregiving responsibilities with building their biomedical research careers. Now, new funding from national nonprofits and internal resources will help support selected U-M Medical School faculty facing this situation. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in concert with the American Heart Association,…
John Carethers, MD, chair of Michigan Medicine’s Dept. of Internal Medicine, announced that Taubman Institute Emerging Scholar, Brian Emmer, MD, PhD received the Laurence F. McMahon MD Dept. of Internal Medicine Early Career Endowment Award. His was one of just three awards announced for 2021. Dr. Carethers explained the award as follows: The Department of…
Join us at 5 p.m. on November 9 for the latest Taubman Technology Talk, about using in vivo calcium imaging in freely behaving animals to decode neural information. “How Am I Wired?” will be presented by Joanna Spencer-Segal, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of internal medicine in the division of metabolism, endocrinology, and diabetes. This…