Faculty Feature Carol Kao
Carol “Mimi” Kao was born in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her parents emigrated from Taiwan to the United States where her father pursued his PhD in aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech, some of her earliest childhood memories are cheering on the Hokies. In kindergarten, she remembers being hospitalized after many days of …
Faculty Feature David Bark
Raised in a rural farming town in northern Illinois, Dave began his career baling hay and detasseling corn. This occurred in between hide and seek among farm equipment. Dave’s academic career began at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Coming from an engineering parent and another that taught math, it …
New Employees March 2021
Staff Title Division Tamara Abou-Antoun Sr Scientist Hematology/Oncology Brian Palmer Bangs Graduate Student Infectious Disease Jennifer Becker Clinical Research Aide Allergy Immun Pulm Med Keisha A Blanchard Payroll Associate Central Admin Brittany Bonty Clinical Research Coord I Infectious Disease Nicole C. Brown Case Worker I Infectious Disease Christina Daniel Research …
Funded Awards February 2021
PI Agency Title Angela Brown NIH/U01 17/22 Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS) Phase 3 – Research Project Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg NIH/R01 Development of human adaptive immunity to Staphylococcus aureus Abby Green DOD Mutagenic Deaminase Activity in Cancer Jeffrey Magee Leukemia & Lymphoma Society/Career Development Program Neonatal origins of pediatric …
New Employees Jan-March
Staff Title Division Aaron Michael Aanestad WU Student Infectious Disease Laura Beilsmith Clinical Research Aide Infectious Disease Melissa Lynn Bizzle Clinical Research Aide Allergy Immun Pulm Med Amber Craig Grant Assistant Central Admin Thomas Emerson Clinic Manager Cardiology Jarena Ewing Medical Assistant II Ambulatory Care Serdar Gorumlu Postdoc Research Associate …
Funded Awards January 2021
PI Agency Title F.S. Cole CDC/Task Force for Global Health, Inc COVID-19 Electronic Health Data Initiative Brian DeBosch Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Supplement-Modeling Human Hepatocytes to Translate Glucose-fasting Mimetics as Novel Therapies Against Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Jorge Di Paola NIH/R33/University of Colorado A systems biology approach to identifying the …
Faculty Feature Steve Ming-Che Liao
Steve never imagined that one day he would live and have a great family in the United States. You see, Steve was born and grew up in Taiwan. He lived with his grandparents for the first four years while his parents both worked in the city of Taipei. His parents …
Funded Awards April 2020
PI Agency Title Leonard Bacharier NIH/ U2C/Duke University ECHO Coordinating Center Jeffrey Bednarski NIH/U54/Regents of University of California – San Francisco Primary Immune Deficiency Treatment Consortium Brian DeBosch AASLD Hepatic Arginase 2 as a Novel Fasting-induced Factor to Treat NAFLD and NASH Lori Holtz NIH/R01 Role of Environmental Exposures …
Faculty Feature Amanda Kolmar
Amanda grew up in Westfield, New Jersey (yes, the same 30,000-person town as the nephrology attending Brian Stotter). She attended Westfield High School (apparently where you went to high school is important in St. Louis?) and spent much of high school pretending to play the clarinet in marching band. She …
Resources for parents with school-aged children
500 Women Scientists Minecraft Server To sign-up: https://t.co/vMOY2j0A2Y?amp=1, Open to Kids and relatives too! Follow the Minecraft Server creators the 500 Women Scientists Crafting Group on twitter: @500WSCrafting Edge for Scholars.org: A web-based forum with all sorts of information to support an academic physician including: Science help for homebound kids …