Congrats to Alice Chu for successfully completing her dissertation defense titled, “Elucidating the role of the TGF-Beta superfamily signaling in pulmonary vascular cell proliferation.” 🎉

Congrats to Ania Pathak for successfully completing her dissertation defense titled, “Associations between Cumulative Sociodemographic Risk, Daily Stress and Anxiety Symptoms, and Executive Function in Females: The Role of Progesterone.” 🎉

Congrats to 4th year DO-PhD student, Thomas Kim, for receiving the Rudolph Hugh Scholarship Award. He was nominated by Sean Crosson and will receive a generous $1,500 in travel funding. Way to go!!

Congrats to Basma Al Masraf for successfully completing her dissertation defense titled, "Telomerase: Dissecting the ends." 🎉

Congrats to David Broadbent for successfully completing his dissertation defense titled, “Live-Cell Tracking of Autophagy Factors Define the Role of ATG9 and ATG2 in Autophagosome Biogenesis” from the Schmidt lab! 🎉

Congrats to 5th year DO-PhD student, Nick Giacobbi, for receiving the 2023 Jack R. Hoffert Memorial Scholarship in the Department of Physiology! . Check out the article highlighting his amazing achievement!. Photo credit: Tyler Lee @msuphysiology

Congrats to 5th year DO-PhD student, Alan Halim, for successfully passing his comprehensive exam!! His proposal was titled, "Therapeutic Inhibition of miR-10b to target breast cancer stemness and metastasis." 🎉

Congratulations to 5th year DO-PhD student, Nick Chargo, for passing his comprehensive exam! His proposal defense was titled, “Understanding the critical role of the gut microbiota in prunes prevention of glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis.” 🎉

Congrats to 5th year DO-PhD student, Megan Russ, for successfully passing the comprehensive exam in the Department of Sociology!!! 🎉

Congratulations to 5th year DO-PhD student, Melissa Meschkewitz, for passing her comprehensive exam! Her proposal defense was titled, "Development of a direct SRF Inhibitor Peptide in Cardiac Fibrosis." 🎉

Congrats to Basma Al Masraf for being the first recipient ever of the Spartan Student Spotlight Award!! The Common Grounds Professionalism Initiative (CGPI) selects a student annually who received a kudos letter for their dedication, hard work, and accomplishments on campus!

Congratulations to 5th year DO-PhD student, Brad Ryva, for successfully passing his comprehensive exam! His proposal defense was titled, "Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Nausea and Vomiting during Pregnancy." 🎉

Congrats to Lyndsey Reich for successfully completing her dissertation defense titled, "Anti-Tumor Activity of Novel RXR Agonists." 🎉

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Congrats to OMS3 and 7th year DO-PhD student, Athanasios Kondilis, for passing his dissertation defense titled, "The influence of dietary obesity on feeding controlled by GHSR-expressing cells in the ventral hippocampus." 🎉

Congratulations to OMS3 and 7th year DO-PhD student, Luca Kaiser, for successfully completing his dissertation defense titled, "The impact of the NRF2 activators arsenic trioxide and tert butylhydroquinone on B cell function." 🎉

Congratulations to 5th year DO-PhD student, Nick Giacobbi, for successfully passing his comprehensive exam! His proposal defense was titled, "Examination of CXCL14 tumor suppression mechanisms in HPV+ head and neck squamous cell carcinoma."🎉

Congratulations to OMS3 and 7th year DO-PhD student, Maja Blake, for successfully passing her dissertation defense titled "Studying the genetic association between an ERAP1 polymorphism and Multiple Sclerosis." 🎉

Congratulations to 5th year DO-PhD student, Josh Baker, for successfully passing his comprehensive exam!. Proposal Defense titled "Defining the Natural History of Brain Changes and their Relationship to Patient Outcome following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A TRACK-TBI Study."

RT @MSU_Osteopathic: Congratulations to #SpartanDO students Meredith Herman, Basma Al-Masraf, Lauren Pelkey, Casey Schukow and Curtiss John….