BMI Weekly News- May 30, 2023

BMI Weekly Newsletter  

May 29, 2023 

News: 

Congratulations to Drs. Brian Edwards and Ladislau Kovari for their recent awards from the Richard Barber Interdisciplinary Research Program.   

  • Dr. Edwards and his collaborator Dr. Benjamin Kidder (Dept. of Oncology) received a grant to support their project, “Developing innovative PD-1 protein mimetics as targeted therapies for breast cancer”,  
  • Dr. Kovari and his collaborator, Dr. Navi Gavande from Pharmaceutical Sciences, received funding for their project “Broad-spectrum nonpeptidic antiviral therapeutics targeting the SARS CoV-2 3CLpro.”  This is the second consecutive year this team has received a Barber award for their antiviral development work. 

BMI Faculty meeting is Thursday, June 1, 2023, 11:30am, 7364 Scott Hall. Zoom link will be sent out with agenda. 

Events This Week:  

Wayne State University School of Medicine presents the EPIC Seminar Series: Tuesday, May 30th, 2023, 1:00-2:00pm, Hybrid Event: Stapleton Room of Shiffman Medical Library 

  • Speaker: Sade Spencer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, Medical Discovery Team on Addition McGuire Translational Research Facility 
  • Title: “Preclinical studies of cannabinoid reward and cannabinoid dependence” 
  • Zoom link
    • Meeting ID:995 0118 8791  
    • Passcode: 37427  

Upcoming Events: 

Immunology Focus Group Seminar: Tuesday, June 6, 2023, 12:00-1:00pm via Zoom 

  • Speaker: Daniel Gatti, Ph.D., Senior Computational Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory 
  • Title: “Using Genetically Diverse Mice to Identify Genes that Influence Phenotypes” 
  • Host: Dr. Jennifer Jacob, PhD, Dept of Oncology, KCI, WSU School of Medicine 
  • Zoom link
    • Meeting ID: 954 3447 0334 
    • Password: 902942 

The Michigan Physiological Society (MPS) will be hosting their 10th annual research symposium at Alma College on June 26 & 27, 2023.  

Return to Campus:     

Recent Updates for Campus Conditions and Requirements as of May 30, 2023.

Campus Daily Screener link.

From Office of President Wilson:

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