The UConn Health MD/PhD Program would like to congratulate Rachel Cohn for winning a prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Nation Research Service Award (F30) from the National Institute on Aging. Rachel’s project is titled “Investigating Cellular Senescence at the Single Cell Level”. Rachel’s project builds upon her expertise in single cell RNA sequencing and the biology of aging. We are proud of her continued achievement here at UConn Health.
Month: May 2023
Congratulations to our new MD-PhD Graduates!
We send our congratulations to the graduating MD-PhD students! Their dedication and hard work are remarkable, and we are grateful for their contributions to our program. While we will miss them, we await their future achievements as they become leaders in medicine and beyond!
Jennifer Chen: Nassau University Medical Center, NY (transitional year), University of Connecticut School of Medicine – Dermatology
Katherine DiScipio: Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX – Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Alexandra Goetjen: New Hanover Regional Medical Center, NC – Family Medicine
Feria Ladha: Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics, Boston, MA – Pediatrics (Physician-Scientist Research Track)
Peter Larson: University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH – Otolaryngology
Anthony Pettinato: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA – Internal Medicine (Physician-Scientist Research Track)
Victor Wang: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD – Pediatrics/Medical Genetics.
Congratulations to Keaton Karlinsey on NIH F30 Award
Keaton Karlinsey, of Dr. Beiyan Zhou’s lab, has been awarded the prestigious NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein F30 Award! This highly competitive honor recognizes Keaton’s outstanding qualities as a future physician-scientist and the merits of his project, “Predicting Cardiovascular Outcomes Using Diabetes-Induced Transcriptomic Networks.” We’re proud of Keaton and can’t wait to see all the incredible things he will accomplish in the future!