Jeffrey Sturek Talks About Testing Blood Plasma From COVID-19 Survivors to Treat the Sick

In a recent article, Jeffrey Sturek, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology Student Alumni, Class of 2010), talks about his pandemic aftermath experience as a physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine who cares for patients with lung diseases and other critical illnesses in the ICU and how he saw the current public health crisis, as he stated, “a call to arms and an opportunity to rigorously test the power of plasma.”
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Congratulations, Katelyn Ahern- F31 NRSA Recipient! (Photo by Amanda Maglione)

The Pharmacology department is sending out a huge congrats to Katelyn Ahern (Pharmacology Graduate Student, in Thurl Harris’s Lab) for being a recent recipient of the Ruth L. Kirchstein Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) –effective July 1, 2020.
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Congratulations, Liz Gonye- F31 NRSA Recipient!

The Pharmacology department is sending out a huge congrats to Elizabeth (Liz) Gonye (Pharmacology Graduate Student in Douglas Bayliss’s Lab) for being a recent recipient of the Ruth L. Kirchstein Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The Kirschstein-NRSA program enables promising predoctoral students (like Liz) with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientist, to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research.
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