{"id":95725,"date":"2023-01-31T07:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=95725"},"modified":"2023-02-09T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:21:41","slug":"com-colleagues-to-be-honored-at-research-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/01\/31\/com-colleagues-to-be-honored-at-research-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>COM colleagues to be honored at research awards<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Diana Florescu, MD, professor in the UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine, will be posthumously honored as the 17th UNMC Scientist Laureate at a ceremony on March 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/01\/30\/remembering-diana-florescu-md\/\">Read a tribute to Dr. Florescu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/01\/05\/diana-florescu-md-named-unmc-scientist-laureate\/\">Read about Dr. Florescu\u2019s selection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award is the highest honor UNMC bestows upon its researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourteen other UNMC College of Medicine colleagues will be recognized with UNMC Distinguished Scientist, Research Leadership and New Investigator Awards at the hybrid virtual and in-person awards ceremony on March 9 at 4 p.m. at the Durham Research Center auditorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other college of medicine research awardees include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Investigators:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aditya Bade, PhD, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gargi Ghosal, PhD, genetics, cell biology and anatomy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jordan Rowley, PhD, genetics, cell biology and anatomy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Derrick Samuelson, PhD, internal medicine-pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Micah Schott, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jawed Siddiqui, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benjamin Teply, MD, internal medicine-hematology\/oncology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Siwei Zhao, PhD, surgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Distinguished Scientists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Benson Edagwa, PhD, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ashley Wysong, MD, dermatology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steven Yeh, MD, ophthalmology and visual science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sowmya Yelamanchili, PhD, anesthesiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Leadership:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Babu Guda, PhD, genetics, cell biology and anatomy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James Lawler, MD, internal medicine-infectious diseases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ceremony, held by the UNMC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, will be on March 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":87570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"51195,72954,69249,63219,69295,59934","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-research","topic-unmc-community","department-anesthesiology","department-biochemistry-and-molecular-biology","department-college-of-medicine","department-dermatology","department-genetics-cell-biology-and-anatomy","department-intercom","department-internal-medicine","department-ophthalmology-and-visual-sciences","department-pharmacology-and-experimental-neuroscience","department-surgery","department-vice-chancellor-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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