Pictured below, Omar, Mian (who received an additional travel award), and Sadik went to the 2025 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting, the premier meeting dedicated to Physician-Scientists, in Chicago this April. Likewise, Caroline presented at the 2025 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) where she also won an AACR Cancer Research Award at the meeting. Travel to these conferences was generously supported by our Office of Physician-Scientist Career Development (OPSCD), which is an additional funding source available to our MD-PhD Students.

The UConn MD-PhD Program is pleased to announce that Clement Ojo and Sadik Karma have been
selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to participate in the 2025 ASH Graduate
Hematology Award (AGHA), part of ASH’s investment in hematology research and the next generation of hematology physicians and scientists.

Through this award, Clement and Sadik will receive funding to conduct hematology research over a two-year period.

We would like to congratulate UConn MD-PhD graduate in the Class of 2017 (in the Immunology AoC) Sonali Bracken, MD, PhD who became an endowed faculty at Duke University Medical Center! As a physician-scientists specializing in Rheumatology, we wish Dr. Bracken the very best as a triple Husky (BS, MD, PhD).