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The goal of the Lansing-based Aitch Foundation fellowship is to study, and perhaps inhibit, a liver enzyme that has been shown to help cancer cells resist chemotherapy. "We want to provide patients with alternatives," she said.

The Collaborative Online International Learning Faculty Fellows Program strives to make global learning more accessible to MSU students as well as a students who are part of the Alliance for African Partnership.

Long interested in research and science, Amanda Jurgelewicz earned her Ph.D. at MSU and is continuing her work at the EPA's Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure. "This research is important, and I’d like to continue it as long as I can," she said.

Derek Decloux wanted a deeper understanding of how drugs, especially anesthetics, impacted dental patients and MSU's online pharmacology and toxicology master's program proved to be a perfect fit for him. "It has opened opportunities for me," he said.

IPSTP retreat highlights updates and research from the past year and celebrates the service of one of its trailblazers, Dr. Richard Neubig.

For UCSD Professor Emeritus Dr. Paul Insel, receiving the 2024 Theodore M. Brody Distinguished Lecturer Award was an unexpected blast from the past.

In a long-standing department tradition, the newest Ph.D. students brought their early research to an audience of faculty and colleagues. Said Ph.D. program director Dr. Jamie Bernard: "It was an opportunity to effectively communicate science."

The Ghana native sent a cold email from a colder Scotland to Dr. James Luyendyk seeking to study PhmTox at MSU and it has proven to be an educational relationship for both of them

He has taken his MSU training to Worldwide Clinical Trials where he works with pharmaceutical companies to establish clinical trials for people afflicted with rare diseases. "The long-term goal is always to get the drug approved,” he said.

Dr. Kari Sant is back in her home state and working at MSU to research and find answers to environmental issues with the help of the tiny zebrafish

Melissa Meschkewitz successfully defended her dissertation on August 7.

One of his Dr. Richard Neubig's goals when he came to MSU in 2013 was to create and build a Drug Discovery program, a relatively new direction in the world of drug research. Mission accomplished.

SURF, BRUSH students among summer undergraduates who presented their research at the annual Mid-SURE event held at MSU

Pragya Saxena successfully defends her dissertation

SURF students present their research from their 10-week foray into the world of scientific research

Brad Ryva Successfully Defends His Dissertation

She was going to stay only two years at MSU. That was nearly 50 years ago and now Dr. Susan Barman can't imagine having taken her skills as a scientist and researcher anywhere else. "I really liked what I was doing here," she said.

Her study of the cardiovascular system looks at how certain drugs impact the prolongation of the heart’s QT interval, which is a risk factor for the development of ventricular arrhythmia.

Drs. Nathan Tykocki, Kin Sing Lee, and Adam Lauver will have new titles added to their names after the Michigan State University Board of Trustees on June 28 approved their promotions to Associate Professor.

Dr. Erika Lisabeth, director of the Assay Development and Drug Repurposing Core Lab, likes the challenge of helping researchers "Get the most bang for the buck in terms of data.”