News

Dr. Hankyu Lee was recently granted a NIH T32 training grant called “Training Grant in Cell and Molecular Dermatology” for the period of April 2023 to March 2024.

Bo received a promotion confirmation from LSA-EC today. Congratulations Bo!!! His packages will now move on to his next destinations (the Provost’s office for Bo). But getting LSA approval is a big step and congratulations for Bo of our PI is in order again.

Good news from Brennan!!! Brennan was accepted into Wayne State Medical School!!!! Congratulations and Happy new year!

Verity Lee, an undergraduate who studied in our lab for two years, started studying at Drexel University College of Medicine last August. We are late to congratulate you, but we sincerely congratulate you!!!

Congratulations to Rex Fung and Brennan Smith! Thank you for all of your hard work in the Duan lab, and we wish both of you the best of luck in your future endeavors!

Undergraduate Jingyi (Angel) Liu receives Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience scholarship! Congrats!

Undergraduate Matt Eitzman receives Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience scholarship! Congrats!

Congratulations Lorraine for receiving a Rackham Travel Grant and ARO travel award for an oral presentation at The Association for Research in Otolaryngology conference!

The manuscript titled “Abnormal somatosensory behaviors associated with a gain-of-function mutation in TRPV3 channels” has been accepted for publication in the  Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, section Brain Disease Mechanisms journal written by Dr. Bo Duan, Mahar Fatma, Hannah Slade, Lorraine Horwitz, Angela Shi, Jingyi Liu, Delaney Mckinstry, Troy Villani, and Haoxing Xu.

Undergraduates Verity Lee, Diana Melikyan, and Timmy Li’s thesis has received the designation of Honors. Congratulations to our graduating seniors!