News

2/18/2021 Vanessa Puñal is selected as a 2020 Hanna Gray Fellow, a program supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) .  Story here. 
4/30/2020

Congratulations to the postdoctoral fellows who will join IRACDA for the FY20 cohort including:

  • Rebecca Cox who will be working in the lab with Scott Leiser of Molecular & Integrative Physiology,
  • Nathan Horrell who will be working in the lab with Jacek Debiec of  the Molecular Behavior Neuroscience Institute,
  • Molly Naylor who will be working with Jillian Pearring of Cell and Developmental Biology.
May 1, 2019

Congratulations to the postdoctoral fellows who will join IRACDA for the FY20 cohort including:

  • Ramiah Jacks who will be mentored by Carey Lumeng of Molecular & Integrative Physiology,
  • Vanessa Puñal  who will be working in the lab of Josie Clowney, Molecular ,Cellular & Developmental Biology
  • Sonya Wolf-Fortune who will be working in the lab of Katherine Gallagher, Microbiology & Immunology
4/2/2019

Coming Jun 30 through Jul 2, 2019!

The University of Michigan will host the National Meeting of the Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award programs from around the United States.  Speakers will include:

  • Dr. John Carethers
  • Dr. Becky Wai-Ling Packard
  • Dr. Ahna Skop

and many others.
6/1/2018

Congratulations to the postdoctoral fellows who will join IRACDA for the FY19 cohort including:

  • Lauren Jepsen who will be mentored by David Sept of Biomedical Engineering,
  • Elizabeth Duran who will be working in the lab of Nils Walter, Chemistry,
  • Holly Turula who will be working in the lab of Joel Swanson of Microbiology & Immunology.
7/1/2017 Congratulations to the postdoctoral fellows who will join IRACDA for the FY18 cohort including: 

  • Delawrence Sykes who will be working in the lab of Yatrik Shah of Molecular & Integrative Physiology,
  • Jennifer Judge who will be working in the lab of Susan Brooks of Molecular & Integrative Physiology,
  • Neda Nourabadi who will be mentored by Lonnie Shea of Biomedical Engineering and Daniel Beard of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, and
  • Zoe Thompson who will be working in the lab of Malcom J. Low of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
10/14/2016 Wylie Stroberg is appointed to be our second fellow to start the IRACDA program.  He will be working with Santiago Schnell of Molecular & Integrative Physiology.
9/28/2016 Victor Cazares is appointed as out inaugural IRACDA fellow!
He will be working in the lab of Geoffrey Murphy who is in Molecular & Integrative Physiology and the Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute.
8/1/ 2016 The official start of the Michigan IRACDA program and time to start recruiting our first group of fellows!