KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
Jian Cai
1998 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: N-(carboxymethyl)valine adduct in hemoglobin: A biomarker of advanced glycation end product formation and oxidative stress
Mentor: Harrell E. Hurst, PhD
Adrian J. Fretland
1999 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Pharmacogenetics of heterocyclic amine carcinogenesis
Mentor: David W. Hein, PhD
R. Scot Payne
2000 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: The corticosterone hypothesis of hyperglycemia-enhanced cerebral ischemic damage
Mentor: Avital Schurr, PhD
Jason R. Neale
2001 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Bone-targeted estrogens: Structure-activity relationships and mechanistic studies
Mentor: William M. Pierce, Jr., PhD
Jason C. Lambert
2002 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Zinc inhibition of acute ethanol-induced liver injury
Mentor: Y. James Kang, PhD
Yu (Janet) Zang
2003 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Studen Award
Dissertation: Mechanistic studies on the T341C (Ile114Thr) single nucleotide polymorphism of human N-acetyltransferase 2
Mentor: David W. Hein, PhD
Anwar Husain
2004 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Regulatory control regions of human arylamine N-acetyltransferase 1 and 2: Implications for genetic predisposition to breast cancer
Mentor: David W. Hein, PhD
Stephen Reeves
2005 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Chronic intermittent hypoxia and respiratory plasticity
Mentor: David Gozal, MD
B. Frazier Taylor
2006 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Arsenite inhibition of mitotic progression
Mentor: J. Christopher States, PhD
Jason M. Walraven
2007 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Computational and functional analyses of human and rat N-acetyltransferase genetic variants N-acetyltransferase genetic variants
Mentor: David W. Hein, PhD
J. Phillip Kaiser
2008 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: The role of PKC-epsilon in models of alcohol- and toxin-induced liver disease
Mentor: Gavin E. Arteel, PhD
Nicole A. Lavender
2009 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: The role of genetic and environmental oxidative stress factors in prostate cancer
Mentor: La Creis R. Kidd, PhD
Shyam Sunder Bansal
2010 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Development and evaluation of polymeric implants of curcumin for enhanced chemopreventive activity
Mentor: Ramesh Gupta, PhD
Lori M. Millner
2011 KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Functional analysis of N-acetyltransferase (NAT1*14B and NAT1*10) in complete NATb and NATa mRNA
Mentor: David W. Hein, PhD
Colins O. Eno
2012 co-winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: The role of endogenous Bcl-xL in regulation of apoptotic signaling pathways
Mentor: Chi Li, PhD
Akshata Moghe
2012 co-winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Role of chromatin remodeling in curcumin-mediated regulation of gene expression in hepatocellular carcinoma
Mentor: Shirish Barve, PhD
Banrida Wahlang
2013 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Evaluating the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Mentor: Matthew C. Cave, MD
Pritesh P. Kumar
2014 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Searching for novel ligands for the cannabinoid and related receptors
Mentor: Zhao-Hui (Joe) Song, PhD
Tess V. Dupre
2015 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Identifying novel renoprotective agents in cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury
Mentor: Leah Siskind, PhD
Laila Al-Eryani
2016 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: miRNA epression changes in arsenic-induced skin cancer in vitro and in vivo
Mentor: J. Christopher States, PhD
Cierra Sharp
2017 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation:A clinically relevant mouse model of cisplatin-induced kidney injury
Mentors: Leah Siskind, Ph.D. and Levi Beverly, Ph.D.
Rachel M. Speer
2018 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Mechanisms of chromate-induced suppression of RAD51: A one environmental health approach
Mentor: John P. Wise, Sr., Ph.D.
Jamie L. Young
2019 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: The effects of whole life, low dose cadmium exposure on high fat diet-induced NAFLD and the role of zinc
Mentor: Lu Cai, M.D., Ph.D.
Sophia M. Sears
2020 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Characterizing the role of macrophages in cisplatin-induced kidney injury and progression to chronic kidney disease
Mentors: Leah J. Siskind, Ph.D. and Levi J. Beverly, Ph.D.
Sarah H. Shrader
2020 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Cannabidiol, behavior & the immune system in idiopathic autism spectrum disorder
Mentors: Greg N. Barnes, M.D., Ph.D. and Zhao-hui (Joe) Song, Ph.D.
Jeffrey B. Warner
2021 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: Soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibition: A novel therapeutic strategy for alcohol-associated liver disease
Mentor: Irina Kirpich, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Idoia Meaza Isusi
2022 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation:
Mentor: John P. Wise Sr., Ph.D.
Micaela A. Reeves
2023 Winner of KC Huang Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Dissertation: EPICERTIN: preclinical development of a novel mucosal healing agent
Mentor: Nobuyuki Matoba, Ph.D.