The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Warner is the fourth graduate student in the pharmacology and toxicology program this year awarded an individual predoctoral fellowship.  Three of the awards are Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral National Research Fellowship Awards (F31) from the National Institutes of Health.  The fourth predoctoral fellowship was awarded by the non-profit foundation Autism Speaks.  Two of these graduate students (Sarah Shrader and Jeffrey Warner) previously were awarded predoctoral fellowships on the NIH funded T32 training grant in environmental health sciences.

The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and the NIEHS T32 training program in environmental health sciences are very proud of the success of these graduate students and their mentors in receiving extramural predoctoral fellowships for their PhD dissertation studies.  The graduate students and their mentors are listed below:

Jeffrey Warner, NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship entitled “sEH Inhibition in Alcoholic Liver Disease: A Novel Therapeutic Strategy”.  His mentor is Dr. Irina Kirpich.

Mengwei Jiang NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship entitled “Probiotic and intestinal miR194 regulation of bile acid metabolism in alcoholic liver disease”.  His mentor is Dr. Wenke Feng.

Sophie Sears NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship entitled “Role of macrophages in cisplatin-induced kidney injury and progression to chronic kidney disease”.  Her mentor is Dr. Leah Siskind.

Sarah Shrader, Autism Speaks predoctoral fellowship entitled “Phytocannabinoids as behavioral and immunological modulators in autism spectrum disorders”.  Her faculty mentors are Drs. Zhao-hui Song and Gregory Barnes.

Jeff Warner        Sarah Shrader      Sophie Sears          Mengwei Jiang