Grace LeBleu is awarded 2nd place for her oral presentation titled “Interactome of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases and Their Putative Substrates Reveals Novel Signaling Networks in Podocytes” at the 11th annual GGNB Student Research Symposium (Nov 2024).
Grace LeBleu is selected for UC Davis Biotechnology Program’s DEB Research Award, June 2024. This award recognizes and supports Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology (DEB) doctoral students who have demonstrated interest in and ability to carry out research projects in the following areas:
Grace was awarded for the Human and Animal Health domain, which is selective for a project that will expand our understanding of human and/or animal health and wellness, leading to novel technologies or improvements in our ability to prevent, diagnose and/or treat diseases and/or genetic disorders.
Grace LeBleu is awarded the 2024 Carpenter Travel Award, which was established in memory of Cliff and Jane Carpenter to support graduate students in the Department of Nutrition. This award will be used to present at the American Society for Nutrition NUTRITION 2024 conference in Chicago in June 2024.
Amy Parkhurst is awarded the Horwitz & Horowitz Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Award. This award recognizes an outstanding graduate student in the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Graduate Group.
Grace LeBleu is selected to present a poster at the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Nutrition 2024 conference, April 2024. Grace will present a poster describing the interaction of Src Homology Phosphatase 2 (Shp2) and Vimentin in modulating glomerular podocyte function.
Grace LeBleu is awarded the 2024 Richard C. Woodard Diabetes Research Award, which recognizes and rewards junior faculty and trainees for research in diabetes mellitus treatment and prevention. Awards are given for outstanding papers or manuscripts published, submitted, or in-preparation during current academic year 2023 / 2024.
Grace LeBleu is selected for the 2024 Center for Nutrition and Wellness Campbell Soup Company Nutrition Research Scholarship, February 2024. This award was established by the Campbell Soup Company to support graduate students in the Department of Nutrition who are conducting their dissertation research in the area of phytochemicals, micronutrients, alternative medicine, and human nutrition and disease management.
Grace LeBleu and Ulrik Mjaaseth are awarded 2024 Rucker Family Fellowship Award. December 2023. The Rucker Family Fellowship was established by Bob and Margaret Rucker to support graduate students conducting research in nutritional biochemistry within the Nutritional Biology Graduate Group. This fellowship is awarded in recognition of your outstanding academic record and promise of productive scholarship.
Amy Parkhurst is selected for the CTSC TL1 predoctoral clinical research training program, Dec 2023. The TL1 program is jointly sponsored by the UC Davis School of Medicine and the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC). It provides clinical and translational research training for medical students, predoctoral students and postdoctoral scholars in the basic sciences using a team science approach.
Grace LeBleu passed her qualifying exam in the Graduate Group of Nutritional Biology, Nov 2023.
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