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UI researchers receive grant to continue studies on rare neuroendocrine cancers

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Second NET SPORE grant at Iowa focused on translating research into improved treatments for patients.

UI Carver College of Medicine Investiture Ceremony to celebrate endowed professorships to Sluka, Petkov, Tomchik

Tuesday, September 2, 2025
University of Iowa Health Care faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend an investiture ceremony honoring Kathleen Sluka, PT, PhD; Christopher Petkov, PhD; and Seth Tomchik, PhD, at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23
UI graduate student is among 30 selected nationwide for this prestigious award

Quiñones-Labernik named HHMI 2025 Gilliam Fellow

Wednesday, August 13, 2025
UI graduate student is among 30 selected nationwide for this prestigious award
Neuroscience & Pharmacology Faculty Seminar - Katelin Dannen, PhD and Adele Stewart, PhD promotional image

Neuroscience & Pharmacology Faculty Seminar - Katelin Dannen, PhD and Adele Stewart, PhD

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Medical Education Research Facility

Accessible Pharmacology

Katelin Dannen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Associate Chair for Education
Dept of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
University of Iowa

Sex- and region-dependent regulation of dopamine reuptake by progesterone receptors

Adele Stewart, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
University of Iowa

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Pain Interest Group Workshop - Agatha Greenway

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

The potential role of a cerebellar-cingulate circuit in migraine

Presented by Agatha Greenway
Graduate Student in Dr. Levi Sower's Lab

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Workshop - Alexandra Petrucci, PhD

Thursday, October 16, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Medical Education Research Facility

Seizure Circuit Activity in the TMEV Model of Infection-induced Epilepsy

Alexandra Petrucci, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Dr. Ted Abel's Lab

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Neuroscience and Pharmacology Postdoctoral Seminar - Ava Carter, PhD

Tuesday, October 21, 2025 10:30am to 11:30am
Virtual

Evolving Responses to the Environment: Human-specific gene regulation in the brain

Ava Carter, PhD
HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School

Pain Interest Group Seminar - Garry Gold, MD promotional image

Pain Interest Group Seminar - Garry Gold, MD

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 9:00am to 10:00am
Medical Education Research Facility

Osteoarthrits: New insights from Imaging

Garry E. Gold, MD
Stanford Medicine Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Bioengineering & Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine

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ACB Seminar Series - Julia von Blume

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 9:30am to 10:30am
Bowen Science Building

Dr. Julia von Blume, an Associate Professor of Cell Biology from the Yale School of Medicine will present a seminar titled "Mechanism of Secretory Granule Biogenesis."

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College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Christian Fernandez, PhD

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 11:30am
College of Pharmacy Building

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by: 

Christian Fernandez, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.

College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Tonglei Li, PhD

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 11:30am
College of Pharmacy Building

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by: 

Tonglei Li, PhD
Allen Chao Chair and Professor
Industrial and Physical Pharmacy
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana

All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.

College of Pharmacy PSET Seminar Series: Leslie Benet, PhD

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 11:30am
College of Pharmacy Building

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics (PSET) in the College of Pharmacy will host a seminar presented by: 

Leslie Benet, PhD
Professor
Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California

All are welcome to attend. No pre-registration required.