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Congrats to Drs. Daniel Kapusta and Peter Winsauer on their nominations for the SOM Aesculapian Society Excellence in Teaching Award for 2011 – 2012.

Dr. Huijing Xia will be receiving the Research Recognition Award from the Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation section of the American Physiological Society. The award will be given to her at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego in April.

Dr. Srinivas Sriramula will be receiving the Research Recognition Award from the Central nervous System section of the American Physiological Society. The award will be given to him at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego in April.

Dr. Kim Pedersen will be receiving the Caroline Tum Suden professional Opportunity award of the American Physiological Society. The award will be given to him at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego in April.

Mr. Kavaljit Chhabra will be receiving the Mead Johnson Research Award from the Endocrinology & Metabolism section of the American Physiological Society. The award will be given to him at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego in April.

Ms. Melissa Scroggin will be receiving the Caroline Tum Suden professional Opportunity award of the American Physiological Society. The award will be given to her at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego in April.

Dr. Eric Lazartigues was just awarded a 5 year Established Investigator Award by the American Heart Association.

Special congratulations to Kavaljit Chhabra (1^st place oral presentation) and Sarah Mahne (3^rd place oral presentation) and Ji Won Park (2^nd place poster) and Monica Ertel (3^rd place poster) in the 25th annual Research Day awards.

Amy Cammarata published her first, first author paper “Antifungal activity of 2a,3b-functionalized steroids stereoselectively increases with the addition of oligosaccharides,” published in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

Richard Wainford for received an International Society of Hypertension poster award a the New Investigators Symposium. This award was presented at the joint meeting of the AHA Council for High Blood Pressure Research and Inter-American Society of Hypertension meeting in Orlando.

Srinivas Sriramula received a New Investigator Award from the High Blood Pressure Research Council of the AHA to attend their annual meeting.

Huijing Xia received a New Investigator Award from the InterAmerican Society of Hypertension to attend their annual meeting.

Kavaljit Chhabra received an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship.

Dr. Eric Lazartigues was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure,

Dr. Richard Wainford obtained his first NIH R01 grant.

Kavaljit Chhabra was selected to receive a 2011 Endocrinology and Metabolism Section Research Recognition Award.

Congratulations to Drs. Daniel Kapusta and Andy Catling on their nomination for the Aesculapian Excellence in Teaching Award presented by the Class of 2013 for the Spring Semester. Their nominations are just another example of the excellent teaching provided by the Department of Pharmacology.

Pingli, Paul, and Jordy have just had a manuscript accepted by one of the top 5 respiratory journals - American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (Red Journal). The title of the manuscript is “Radical Containing Particles Activate DCs and Enhance Th17 Inflammation in A Mouse Model of Asthma”. The editor submitted a special email to our laboratory congratulating us on “an excellent study”. We are excited with the new data and proud to have such great postdoctoral fellows and students in our lab.

Jordy Saravia recently had a manuscript accepted by Particle and Fibre Toxicology (Impact Factor 5.5 placing it second in ranking among toxicology journals). He is co-first author of this manuscript. Authors: Shrilatha Balakrishna*, Jordy Saravia*, Paul Thevenot, Terry Ahlert, Slawo Lominiki, Barry Dellinger and Stephania A Cormier. Title: Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals Induce Airway Hyperresponsiveness In Neonatal Rat Lungs Journal: Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Rahul Datta had a paper published in Allergy (2^nd of all allergy journals) with en editorial from the editor+reviewer(s).Original Paper . Editorial

Kavaljit Chhabra was among the applicants selected to receive the 2011 tum Suden Award. He will attend the Experimental Biology 2011 meeting in Washington, D.C.

Russell Amato received a ASPET Graduate Student Travel Award

Kavaljit Chhabra placed 2nd in the Oral Talk on Research Day.

Mary Worrel placed 3rd in the Graduate Posters on Research Day.

Swapnil Kher placed 4th in the Graduate Posters on Research Day.

Mary Worrel has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service award for Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows (F30) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Sharell Bindom's paper was published in Diabetes.Bindom SM, Hans CP, Xia H, Feng Y, Boulares AH, Lazartigues E. ACE2 gene therapy improves glycemic control in diabetic mice. Diabetes, 2010 Jul 26

MD/PhD Student Felix Nau, who spent this summer working on a project with Drs Nichols and Yu, is one of the 4 top winners of the Medical School Summer Research Symposium.

Youssef Errami has been awarded a student travel grant to attend the PARP 2010 Conference in Zurich.

Dr. Peter Winsauer received the 2010 Allen Copping Award for Excellence in Basic Science Teaching. This very prestigious award is only given to one individual in the basic sciences each year. The award is richly deserved and highlights the excellence in teaching provided throughout the department.

Dr. Ashok Pullikuth and Dr. Andrew Catling recent paper in Molcular and Cellular Biology has been selected by the editors as a hot paper to be featured in Spotlights in the July 2010 issue of the journal.

Dr. Eric Lazartigues won a Shih-Chun Wang Memorial Young Investigator Award from the American Physiological Society at the EB meeting.

Lauren Brignac-Huber won first place award at the Graduate Student Poster Competition for the Toxicology Division of ASPET at the Experimental Biology meeting last week. “Residence of P450 System Enzymes in Enoplasmic Reticular Lipid Microdomains”

Kavaljit Chhabra won a Graduate Student Best Abstract Award by the Division for Integrative Systems, Translational & Clinical Pharmacology of the American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics. “ACE2: A potential therapeutic target for Angiotensin II-mediated insulin resistance and glucose intolerance”