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Congratulations to MD-PhD M4 students on their Match!

Congratulations to our newly matched students!

Patrick McMullan, MD, PhD – Dermatology at UConn Health

Bruce Rheaume, MD, PhD – Internal Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lauren Marazzi Hinson, MD, PhD – Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University

Prakhar Bansal, MD, PhD – Psychiatry at UT Southwestern

Kristin Tokarski Kinstler, MD, PhD – Pediatric Physician-Scientist Training Program (PPSTP) at the University of Michigan

Nathan Leclair, MD, PhD – Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center

Brandon Byrd, MD, PhD – OB/GYN at University of Buffalo

Congraduations Justin and Cullen on T90/T32 appointments!

Justin King (Dr. Archana Sanjay’s lab) was appointed to a PhD position supported by the UConn-NIDCR T90/R90 Research Training Program for skeletal, craniofacial and oral biology research. Cullen Clairmont (Dr. Ching Lau’s lab) was appointed as a trainee supported by the UConn/JAX-GM Training Program in Genomic Sciences T32. Congraduations to both of them!

MD/PhD Program Director’s Innovative Approach to Heart Disease

UConn’s MD/PhD Program would like to congratulate our program director Dr. Kimberly Dodge-Kafka for her recent NIH grant award. This funding expands upon Dr. Dodge-Kafka’s prestigious work examining cardiac cell signaling networks with the ultimate goal of developing new therapies for heart disease. For more on her accomplishments please read her spotlight article in “UConn Today” Here

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!

Congratulations to Tima Karginov on AHA Fellowship

Tima Karginov, an athlete, creative developer, and winner of the 2022 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship, a 2-yr. fellowship for research on T cells, RNA splicing, and cardiovascular disease.

And that’s not all. He was also awarded the 2021 AAI Young Investigator Award for top poster presentation at the Immunology Conference and the 2022 AAI Travel Award for his oral presentation at the American Association of Immunologists Conference. Well done, Tima!

Congratulations T32 Recipients

Over the past year, several of our students have been awarded institutional research training grants funded by the NIH (more commonly known as the T32) to promote their work:

Ryan Englander: Training Program in Precision Genetics of Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
Keaven Caro: Regenerative Engineering of Musculoskeletal Tissues – a Convergence Doctoral Training Program
Mian Horvath:  The UConn/JAX-GM Training Program in Genomic Science
Christopher Pathoulas: The UConn/JAX-GM Training Program in Genomic Science