Jun-Xu Li, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology and
toxicology, has received the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award
from the College of Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD)
for his research on pharmacotherapy for stimulant abuse.
Graduate student and trainee researchers and their mentors in
the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology received
positive feedback on in-depth studies they presented at the 2016
Behavior, Biology and Chemistry: Translational Research in
Addiction meeting.
Rajendram Rajnarayanan, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology
and toxicology, has been honored with a 2014 President Emeritus and
Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and
Mentoring.
Biologist and national science diversity advocate Clifton A.
Poodry, PhD, shared his inspirational success stories through two
University at Buffalo forums on June 24.
Jason Ma, a pharmacology and toxicology major, was one of four
UB undergraduates selected to present original research findings to
SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and state elected officials.
Undergraduates from across the country have come to UB this
summer to participate in a mentoring research program launched by
Margarita Dubocovich, PhD.
Ekue B. Adamah-Biassi and Anthony J. Hutchinson have received
Maximizing Access to Research Careers Travel Awards for this
year’s Experimental Biology meeting.
The two-year award supports MD/PhD candidate Alice Crane’s
research on how genetic variability impacts human susceptibility to
the pesticide chlorpyrifos.
Three PhD students and a recent postdoctoral fellow in the lab
of Ji Li, PhD, presented their research at the world’s
largest and most prestigious heart research meeting.
PhD candidate Shannon Clough and postdoctoral associate Anthony
Hutchinson, PhD, received travel awards to attend a prestigious
conference on translational research in addiction.
