Congratulations to Dr. Kirpich and colleagues. Their abstract has won the “Distinguished Abstract” award for 2019 annual meeting of the American Academy of Clinical Chemistry (AACC). “Decreased endogenous ω-6 PUFAs induced intestinal mucosa transcriptional reprogramming that contributed to amelioration of intestinal and liver injury in mice in a context of systemic inflammation and chronic ethanol exposure” by Dennis R. Warner, Ying L. Song, Jeffrey B. Warner, Craig J. McClain, and Irina A. Kirpich was one of 20 (out of 202 considered) to be so honored.

The Annual AACC meeting will be in August, 2019 in Anaheim, California.