Congratulations to MCIP PhD Student, David Wong who was awarded the Vascular Biology Training Grant! Congratulations also to his faculty mentor, Dr. Pearl Quijada!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Asif Razee who was awarded the Vascular Biology Training Grant (VBTG) for the 2nd year in a row! Congratulations also to his faculty mentor, Dr. Soban Umar!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Student, Pranav Kannan who was awarded the Muscle Cell Biology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics (MCBPT) T32 for AY 2022-2023! Congratulations also to his faculty mentor, Dr. Rachelle Crosbie!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Whitaker Cohn who was awarded the Muscle Cell Biology, Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics (MCBPT) T32 for AY 2022-2023! Congratulations also to his faculty mentor, Dr. Varghese John!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Laila Aryan who was awarded the UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (DAPM) Seed Grant! Congratulations also to her faculty mentor, Dr. Mansoureh Eghbali!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Mirian De Siqueira who was awarded the 2021-2022 Mautner Graduate Award! She was one of three students selected for the award this year and attended the public lecture by Dr. Joseph DeRisi and our Life Sciences Dean on April 11! Congratulations also to her faculty mentor Dr. Claudio Villanueva!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, MontyBlencowe and MCIP PhD Student, Zoe Zhao on their paper published in Genome Research! Title of the paper is: “Relative contributions of sex hormones, sex chromosomes, and gonads to sex differences in tissue gene regulation.” Congratulations also to their faculty mentor Dr. Xia Yang!

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https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2022/04/08/gr.275965.121.abstract

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Student, Ricardo Frausto who was awarded the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship! Congrats also to his faculty mentor Dr. Elissa Hallem!

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Congratulations to MCIP PhD Student, Paul Vander who was selected as one of the top 10 finalists at this year’s 2022 UCLA Grad Slam!

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The final competition will be live streamed on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on YouTube. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu0ZROvbEZs

Congratulations to MCIP PhD Candidate, Cynthia McKee on her first author paper published in FASEB J! The title of the paper is “The anti-aging protein Klotho affects early postnatal myogenesis by downregulating Jmjd3 and the canonical Wnt pathway”

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Link to paper: https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1096/fj.202101298R