Faculty Friday

Faculty Friday

Dr. John Henry Dasinger is an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology at Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Dasinger received his doctorate in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in the laboratory of Dr....
Meet Abby Brooks

Meet Abby Brooks

Abby Brooks holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and an M.S. in Biotechnology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Driven by a profound passion for research, she is currently pursuing a PhD within the...
Meet Dr. Lance Benson

Meet Dr. Lance Benson

Currently residing in Childersburg AL, Lance is a postdoctoral trainee conducting research in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine under the mentorship of Jennifer Pollock, Ph.D. Lance obtained his...
Meet Dr. Megan Rhoads

Meet Dr. Megan Rhoads

Dr. Megan Rhoads is an integrative physiologist interested in how time of day and the molecular clock contribute to cardiovascular and renal function and disease. During graduate school at the University of Kentucky, she studied spontaneous high blood pressure in...
Meet Rebecca Horowitz

Meet Rebecca Horowitz

Rebecca was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, but raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. After graduating high school, Rebecca was accepted into Tulane’s Accelerated Physician Training Program (TAP-TP). In her last year of undergraduate studies, Rebecca discovered her love of...
Meet Tha Luong

Meet Tha Luong

Tha Luong is a Ph.D. student in Immunology, Graduate Biomedical Science program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She received a master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa in 2020. Her master project was to examine a...
Meet Huy Nguyen

Meet Huy Nguyen

Huy Nguyen is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) under Dr. Hyndman’s mentorship. With a background in organic chemistry from HCMC University of Education, Vietnam, Huy transitioned to biotechnology, earning a...
Meet Arushi Kotru

Meet Arushi Kotru

Arushi Kotru, an alumnus from the KURE program, is a current post-baccalaureate IRTA fellow at the NIH. We reached out to her to gain more insight into her experiences as an emerging scientist. Q: Do you have any particular experiences, interests, or passions that...
Meet Connor Sisk

Meet Connor Sisk

Connor Sisk, a KURE 2022 Scholar, is a current post-baccalaureate IRTA fellow at the NIH. We reached out to Connor to gain more insight into his experiences as an emerging scientist. “Research has continued to be an influential component of my premedical...
Meet Dr. Maggie Jones-Carr

Meet Dr. Maggie Jones-Carr

Dr. Maggie E. Jones-Carr is a post-doctoral trainee at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation. Dr. Jones-Carr works under the mentorship of Dr. Jayme Locke, who is supported under a TL1 KUH PRIME training...