Congratulations to Cody Lensing

Congratulations to Cody Lensing, a Medicinal Chemistry graduate student in the Haskell-Leuvano laboratory, who was awarded a 2016-2017 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

Congratulations to Sara Coulup

Congratulations to Sara Coulup, recipient of a 2016-2017 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education.

New Grant Awarded to Dr. Daniel Harki

Congratulations to Dan Harki, who is a co-investigator on a new four year, $2.12M NIH (NIGMS) R01 grant for the project, "APOBEC3 Structural Studies." Reuben Harris and Hideki Aihara are co-PIs.

Funding Awarded to Dr. Sunil David

Congratulations to Sunil David who received $400,000 in supplemental funding for his project, "Development of Zika Virus-specific Serodiagnostic Immunoassays and Evaluation of Zika Virus Env-derived Antigens for Subunit Vaccines."

Congratulations to Jordan Baur, Caitlin Puro, & Hannah Skopec

Congratulations to the following Harki lab students for winning the following summer research awards:

• Jordan Baur: Heisig/Gleysteen Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UMN Chemistry

• Caitlin Puro: Heisig/Gleysteen Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UMN Chemistry - declined; DAAD award for research in Germany Summer 2016

• Hannah Skopec: Melendy/Peters' Summer Research Scholarship, UMN Pharmacy

Jillian Kyzer Quoted in News Article

Jillian Kyzer, a Medicinal Chemistry graduate student in the Georg laboratory, was recently quoted in a news article regarding progress made on developing a male contraceptive drug.

Find the full article here: http://mentalfloss.com/article/77887/scientists-move-one-step-closer-male-birth-control-pill