University of Iowa Biomedical Science Graduate Program

Congratulations to Salma Hassan for receiving the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship for Spring 2025!

This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. students to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities. This fellowship is awarded to those students who have shown excellence in both their academic coursework and their scholarly research.

Salma received this award working in Dr. Drack’s lab in the Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program. She is a member of our 2022-23 BSP Cohort and we couldn’t be more excited for her!

Don’t forget to vote in the upcoming November 5th election, it’s a big one!

Remember it’s not just a presidential election; You will be voting for House and Senate seats, local offices, local issues.

Make sure your registration information is up to date and that you take time to familiarize yourself with all the candidates and issues you will be voting on.

Here are some resources if you want to get involved, check your registration status, or are interested in voting early:

Hawk The Vote | Office of Leadership, Service, and Civic Engagement | The University of Iowa (uiowa.edu)

Elections - Voter Registration | Johnson County (johnsoncountyiowa.gov)

Congratulations to Jianyu Yu on being first author of the paper "Determination of the FABP5 expression profile in skin lesions of an IMQ-induced psoriasis mouse model using flow cytometry" in the journal 'Star Protocols'!

Jianyu is a member of the 2021-22 BSP Cohort and is now a valued member of Dr. Bing Li’s lab in the Molecular Medicine program.

We are looking forward to all his future accomplishments!

Congratulations to our current BSP student Sophie Granger on being the first author on the paper “Human hnRNPA1 reorganizes telomere-bound Replication Protein A” to be published by Nucleic Acids Research!

An amazing accomplishment in her career. We can't wait to see what she does next.

Event: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Professional and Graduate School Virtual Conference
Date/Time: Thursday, October 3, 2024 | 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. (CT)
Registration Form: https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8JmOyo2dzMg0qYS
Cost: FREE
Deadline to Register: Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Each individual participant (advisors and students) must register for the event separately.
The Zoom links will be emailed to registrants on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.
We hope you and your students can attend! If you have any questions, contact [email protected].

Here's a look at our amazing incoming class!

We are proud to present the BSP 2024-2025 Class!

April 15th is decision day for prospective Biomedical Science Ph.D. Program students at the University of Iowa. Will you be on campus with us next year?

Join us in welcoming Michael Geneser as the Administrative Director for the Carver College of Medicine’s Biomedical Science Program. Welcome, Michael, we are excited to have you on our team!