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PBIO Postdoc Sweta Agrawal featured in the NINDS podcast, Building Up the Nerve
PBIO Postdoc Sweta Agrawal was recently featured in the NINDS podcast, Building Up the Nerve (she’s a Neuroscientist), where she talks about her approach to getting NIH funding. Sweta was recently awarded a K99, so clearly she knows what she’s doing!
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Meet Beth Buffalo, PhD, the New Chair of Physiology and Biophysics
Beth Buffalo’s path to a doctorate in neuroscience, even as she ticked off other boxes to become a philosophy professor, was foreshadowed in high school by a science fair experiment in her basement. Buffalo’s precocious experiment involved her hypothesis about a chemical’s effects on aggression, guidance from the University of Arkansas Medical School and 20…
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Early Stage Investigator Award for Alec Smith
Money matters at every career stage of course, but Early Stage Alec is now an Instructor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and the muscle research community he joined is growing and galvanizing, buoyed in just the last twelve months by two major grants. One grant gave rise to the Center for Translational Muscle Research…
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Loring B. Rowell, Ph. D. 1930 – 2020
Loring (Larry) B Rowell, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, died at home in Seattle, Washington, on December 19, 2020, after developing cardiac and renal failure. Born on January 27, 1930, in Lynn, Massachusetts, Larry retired in 1997 after a long scientific career. In addition to more than 100…
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Claudia Moreno awarded a 2020 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grant for Junior Faculty
https://www.afar.org/grantee-profiles/claudia-moreno
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John Tuthill named to 2020 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
John Tuthill, PhD, assistant professor in Physiology and Biophysics, was named in the 2020 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators by the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF). The NYSCF Investigator Program fosters and encourages promising early career scientists whose cutting-edge research holds the potential to accelerate treatments and cures. Tuthill’s research focuses on proprioception, or the sense…

