Javier Gomez successfully defended his thesis on June 8, 2016 completing the requirements for his Ph.D. Javier completed his dissertation work “Regulation of the signal transduction pathways of the Unfolded Protein Response during chronic and physiological ER stress” in the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Rutkowski.

Congratulations to Jeanine Schibler who successfully defended her thesis on June 3, 2016. Jeanine completed her dissertation work "Targeting unique oxidative metabolism of clonogenic multiple myeloma cells for therapy" in the laboratory of Dr. Apollina Goel.

Ilya Blokhin successfully defended his thesis on May 3, 2016 completing the requirements for his Ph.D. Ilya completed his dissertation work “micro-RNA-dependent Mechanisms of Thrombosis in Obesity” in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Lentz.

Nicholas Borcherding, an MSTP student who will matriculate into MCB in Fall 2016 through Dr. Weizhou Zhang's lab, has been selected as a Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished Thesis Award winner for 2016.

2013 MCB Alum, Nirjal Bhattarai, PhD, is now a Principal Investigator at the Gene Transfer and Immunogenicity Branch of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies at the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Congratulations Nirjal!