Year: 2017

Joseph Kemnitz, PhD, was appointed Interim Chair of CRB in July.  Prof. Kemnitz is one of the founding members of our department.  He previously has held other roles in research administration locally, including director of …

Welcome to our new Assistant Professor, Anita Bhattacharyya! Anita joined CRB on December 1. Please stop by her office in 623 Waisman Center to say hello!

CRB participated in Union South’s Badger Bash event on Saturday, November 11. Posters, interactive displays, and informational brochures and handouts were set up for the public. This event was a great success and we hope …

Welcome to our new Assistant Professor, Junsu Kang! Junsu joined CRB on October 1. Please stop by his office in 4451 WIMR II to say hello!

Welcome to our new Assistant Professor, Ahmed Mahmoud! Ahmed joined CRB on September 1. Please stop by his office in 4557 WIMR to say hello! There will be a welcome reception for Ahmed on September …

Congratulations to several new PhD graduates! Zach Gregorich (Ying Ge’s lab) and Adriana Rodriguez (Karen Downs’ lab) both completed their PhDs in August. Earlier this year (May 2017), Lucas Tomko completed his PhD with Patti …

Welcome to our new Department Administrator, Jacalyn McHugh! Jackie has been working as the Research Operations Manager for the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA since 2010. Prior to that …

Congratulations to Vege (Wenxuan Cai) on receiving an American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship! Vege is a graduate student in Ying Ge’s lab.

Welcome to our newest faculty member, Ricki Colman. Ricki joined the CRB faculty in March and will continue her groundbreaking research on nutrition and longevity at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center.

Congratulations to the students of CRB faculty and affiliates who gave research presentations yesterday in the Undergraduate Symposium 2017. These students are Brenna Bomkamp and Ryan Gigstad (Patti Keely lab); Cayla Guerra (Grace Boekhoff-Falk lab); …