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On Thurs., April 18

On Feb. 21st, Soman Abraham, PhD , gave a talk titled “Cross Talk Between Infections, Agents, and the Immune System” at the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction 2024 Winter Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A few days later, he presented at talk titled “Regulation of Mast Cell Regranulation”at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAI) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

Vianna Martinez, a third-year graduate student in the laboratory of Amy McNulty, PhD, has been awarded a Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Educ

Jinjin Wu, a fifth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Ming Chen, PhD, has been awarded a Duke University School of Medicine Office of Biomedical and Graduate Education

On Thurs., April 20^th, PhD Graduate Program members gathered in MSRB001 to celebrate Margaret “Meg” J.

PhD student Evangaline Bao spoke at the Pathobiology and Translational Science Fall Student Seminar Series at UNC on Nov. 1^st.  Her presentation was titled “A Mast Cell-Thermoregulatory Neuron Circuit Axis Regulates Hypothermia in Anaphylaxis.”

PhD student Amelia Schirmer spoke at the Pathobiology and Translational Science Fall Student Seminar Series at UNC on Oct. 25^th.  Her presentation was titled “Investigating the Non-Canonical Role of Hippo Kinase Serine/Threonine Kinase 3 (STK3) in Prostate Cancer.”

On October 13^th the Pathology PhD Graduate Program launched a new milestone recognition event this year: a Lab Coat Ceremony for Post-Preliminary PhD Candidates.

This year, four out of the ten Peer Mentors in the Duke School of Medicine’s (SOM) Office of Biomedical Graduate Education (OBGE) program are from the Pathology PhD Program: Amelia Schirmer, Zoe Loh, Jinjin Wu, and

Pathology Graduate Program Alumnus Yuanfan Yang is presenting his PhD work at the 2022 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Meeting, from Oct. 8-12, in San Francisco, CA.