
Saving Our Bacon: Katie Summers, PhD
Katie and her lab at the USDA research ways to grow healthier pigs by studying an unlikely material.

Fat, Sex, and Inflammation: Durga Singer, MA, MD
Studying the long-lasting and impactful consequences of obesity on the immune system.

Blast Off! Engineering Rockets with Colin Heye, PhD
Learning about rocket propulsion, fluid dynamics, and some of the engineering challenges it takes to launch people and materials into space.

Making Cold Tumors Hot: Blake Heath
Highlighting Blake’s work on restoring interferon signaling in head and neck cancer to activate the body’s immune response to fight cancer.

Learning About Language: Annemarie Kocab, PhD
Annemarie researches fundamental aspects of language.

Drug Discovery in Academia: Karson Kump
Karson targets the Bcl-2 protein family to design and develop new drugs for cancer.

Cell Therapy, Devices, and Diabetes: Richard Youngblood
Richard is studying the feasibility of using stem cells and a microporous device as an approach for treating type 1 diabetes.

Cancer Whack-A-Mole: Melanie Krook, PhD
Profile of a grad school friend who is currently a post-doc studying tumor heterogeneity and drug resistance.