Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology graduate students received awards for best research poster presentations at Research!Louisville on September 13, 2019.  

Master’s Basic Science Graduate Student Awards

 1st place:  Jeffrey Warner

“Soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibition: a novel therapeutic strategy in alcoholic liver disease”  

Mentor: Irina Kirpich

2nd place:  Sean Raph

“KVß2 mediates vasodilation in response to redox changes of the NADH:NAD+ ratio.”

Mentor: Matthew Nystoriak.

2nd place:  Angeliki Lykoudi 

“Overexpression of has-miR-186 induces anchorage-independent growth and chromosomal alterations in arsenic exposed human keratinocytes: A preliminary study”

Mentor: J. Christopher States

Doctoral Basic Science Graduate Student Awards

3rd place:  Adrienne Bushau-Sprinkle 

“Mechanistic insight for increased susceptibility to cisplatin nephrotoxicity with NHERF1 loss”. 

Mentor: Eleanor Lederer