Professor Stephanie Correa awarded a NIH R21 grant!
Congratulations to Professor Stephanie Correa who was awarded a NIH R21 grant to investigate the effects of endocrine therapy on thermoregulation!

Congratulations to Professor Stephanie Correa who was awarded a NIH R21 grant to investigate the effects of endocrine therapy on thermoregulation!

Congratulations to Professor Claudio Villanueva for his research paper titled “Mitochondrial pyruvate carrier is required for optimal brown fat thermogenesis” to be published in the journal eLife

Here is the link to the paper.
Congratulations to Professor Jim Tidball for receiving a new NIH R01 grant to investigate the role of the muscle microenvironment in cancer with his long time collaborator, Professor Denis Guttridge of Medical University of South Carolina

Professor Elaine Hsiao received an NIH-NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant for her project titled: “ Dissecting Microbiota-Gut-Brain Interactions for the Anti-Seizure Effects of the Ketogenic Diet”

Good luck and Congratulations to Dr. Tae-Hyung Kim as he leaves UCLA IBP (Rowat lab) for an assistant professor position in the department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico!

Congratulations to graduate student, Kelly Jameson (Hsiao Lab) who was awarded an NIH-NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant for her project titled: “Investigating the Effects of The Microbiota on Vagal Afferent Sensory Neuronal Activity in an Animal Model of Parkinson’s Disease.”




Professor Jim Tidball was awarded an NIH RO1 grant for his research titled “Novel mechanisms regulating muscle growth and regeneration: elucidating the Klotho/Jmjd3/Wnt axis.” Additional important contributors to this important work include Dr. Michelle Wehling-Henricks and Cynthia McKee.

Professors Scott Chandler and Xia Yang use single-cell RNA-seq analysis to discover that specific cell types and gene pathways are perturbed in ALS disease. Check out their insightful paper here!
