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Congratulations to Kristina Sattler for publishing a first-author paper! The title of the paper is Assessment of Lectin Staining Biomarkers for GNE Myopathy Gene Therapy…
Our September MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Dr. Jessica Nunes! Dr. Nunes is a Postdoctoral Fellow at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She graduated from MCDB in 2023…
Congratulations to each of our newly elected MCDB GSO members!
President
Anna Childers
Congratulations to Jessica Wedig for passing her final exam!
We are excited to announce that the new online paperless workflow for our MCDB Student Progress Report form is now live. This new workflow takes effect immediately; all progress reports submitted…
Congratulations to Bethany Pepple for receiving a C. Glenn Barber Fellowship from the College of Veterinary Medicine!
Welcome to the incoming MCDB cohort! We’re so excited to have each of you in the program.
Yijing Su, Ananya Viswanathan, Abigail Shugrue, Khulood Alzahrani, Gabriela Pardo-Toro,…
Our August MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Dr. Yu-Ci Syu! Dr. Syu is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She graduated from MCDB…
Congratulations to our graduates! We wish them success on their future endeavors!
Katelyn Amstutz Advisor: Iris Me
Yogesh Budhathoki Advisor: Ryan…
Congratulations to Annika Chura, Ayushi Das, Zixi Long and Noura Srour for being selecting among the 2026-27 cohort of Pelotonia…
Congratulations to Jingru Liang for receiving a predoc fellowship from the American Heart Association!
Congratulations to Mackenzie Dillenbeck, Jack Gregory, Matt Janik, Bianca Lederfeind, Brendan Moran and George Roy for being…
Congratulations to Yogesh Budhathoki for successfully defending her dissertation!
Congratulations to Mariam Salem for successfully defending her dissertation!
Our July MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Dr. Siddhi Nath Paudel! Dr. Paudel is a Scientist in the Oncology In Vivo Pharmacology group at Amgen. He graduated from MCDB in…
Congratulations to Mackenzie Dillenbeck and Andrew Vontell for passing their candidacy exams!
Our July MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Dr. Iftekhar Showpnil! Dr. Showpnil is a Bioinformatics Analyst at Nationwide Children's Hospital. He graduated from MCDB in 2022.…
Congratulations to Jessica Herstine for successfully defending her dissertation!
Welcome to Internship Insights! This new series will feature interviews with MCDB students about their experiences with internships during their time in the program. We hope that…
Congratulations to Katelyn Amstutz, Hsiang-Ling Huang and Tianyi Tao for successfully defending their dissertations!
Congratulations to all of the MCDB students that were awarded at the 2026 IGP Symposium!
Outstanding Poster Presentation: Zianne Olverson Runner-Up Poster Presentations: Caleb Holaway, Aparna…On May 11 and 12, 2026, MCDB graduate students hosted an interactive science activity for middle schoolers at Hayes Intermediate School in Grove City, Ohio.
MCDB students Carmen…
Our June MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Dr. Anisha Kalidindi! Dr. Kalidindi is an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. She graduated from MCDB in 2022.
We asked…
Congratulations to Dominic Kolonay for receiving the Dr. Margaret T. Nishikawara Graduate Student Scholar Award! This award is given to recognize the top doctoral candidate in the…
Congratulations to Salma Abdelbaky, Moulisubhro Datta, Kyle Ernzen, Natasha Maria James, Jack…
Our May MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Dr. Daniel Arango! Dr. Arango is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Northwestern University. He graduated…
On Wednesday, Ayushi Das, Maria Mihaylova, Zianne Olverson, Emily Payne, Kristin Stanford, Yi Wang…
Congratulations to Caden Martin for successfully defending his dissertation!
On Apr. 17, 2026, MCDB graduate students Zianne Olverson, Electra Coffman, Jessica Anderson, Madeline Burghaze, Remy…
Congratulations to Mariam Salem for publishing a first-author paper in the European Journal of Immunology!
The title of the paper is, “Gene Regulatory Programs of NK…
Congratulations to Leyre Jiminez-Garcia for publishing a first-author paper in Springer Nature Link!
The title of the paper is, “Meningeal-tumor interactions define…
Our May MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Dr. Sanjana Rajan! Dr. Rajan is a Senior Computational Scientist in Immunology R&D Discovery at Johnson & Johnson. She graduated from…
MCDB Student Spotlight Award for Service and Engagement Awardee: Zianne Olverson
Zianne Olverson demonstrates an extraordinary passion for community…
Congratulations to Ma Suu, Zhantao Du and Paul Nicolosi for passing their candidacy exams!
Tong Xiao also recently published a first-author paper in Nature Immunology. The paper was titled, "ZFP148 is a transcriptional repressor of cytolytic effector CD8+ T cell…
Congratulations to Natasha Maria James, Yi Wang and Kyle Ernzen for all successfully defending their dissertations!
Our April MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Kelsey Schaefers! Dr. Schaefers is a Senior Scientific Associate at VML Health. She graduated from MCDB in 2021.
We asked Dr…
Congratulations to Zianne Olverson, Ayushi Das and Jessica Wedig for all being recognized in various categories at the Edward F. Hayes Advanced…
Our March MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Andrea Keller! Dr. Keller is an Assistant Professor in the Biology & Chemistry Department at Asbury University. She graduated from…
Congratulations to Ayushi Das for achieving First Place, as well as receiving the People's Choice Award, in the Graduate School's University-Wide 3MT Competition on February 4th!…
Our January MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Revati Dewal! Dr. Dewal is a Senior Editor at Nature Metabolism. She graduated from MCDB in 2021.
We asked Dr. Dewal some…
Congratulations to Jess Herstine for publishing a first-author commentary in Molecular Therapy Methods & Clinical Development!
The commentary is titled, "To be or not…
Congratulations to MK McCulloch for being accepted to the 2026 Stanford Brain Organogenesis Workshop! She received the NCH Wellstone Center Fellowship to support her attendance to…
Congratulations to Christina Ross Budding and Nehleen Reza for being awarded first and third place, respectively, for Outstanding Poster Award at the 5th…
Our December MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Emily Nordquist! Dr. Nordquist is a project manager in the Transformation Management Office at Solventum. She graduated from…
Congratulations to Moulisubhro Datta, Emily Ringwalt, Chung-Ju Yeh, Christina Budding, Alexi Tallan, Gargi Mishra and Salma Abdelbaky for all…
Our November MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Danni Jin! Dr. Jin is a postdoctoral associate at Yale University. She graduated from MCDB in 2021.
We asked Dr. Jin some…
Congratulations to Jessica Wedig for receiving the Presidential Fellowship from The Graduate School!
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the…
Congratulations to Zachary Hurst, Yinchong Wang and Yuanfeng (Tommy) Wang for being awarded the Pelotonia Graduate Scholars Award!
The…
Congratulations to Ayushi Das, Adalyn Brown and Debadrita Paul for winning first, second, and third place, respectively, in the 9th Annual MCDB…
Congratulations to Jingru Liang for placing third in the DHLRI Research Day Poster Competition!
Our October MCDB Alumni Spotlight is highlighting Anuvrat Sircar! Dr. Sircar is a Senior Scientist, Translational Research, Hematology Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca. He graduated…
Congratulations to MCDB student MK McCulloch for being one of four recipients of the CMTRF Emerging Researcher Award!
The Emerging Researcher Award program delivers focused, high-impact…
Congratulations to MCDB student Yi Wang for publishing a first-author paper in Nature!
Introducing our first MCDB Alumni Spotlight! With this series, we hope to shine some light on our awesome alumni, as well as giving our current students some advice from previous MCDB students!
Congratulations to all of the newly elected members of the MCDB Graduate Student Organization!
President: Caleb Holaway
VP: Adalyn Brown
Congratulations to Isabella Kolodny, Manie Brema, Morgan Smith, Emily Payne and Omar West for all passing their candidacy exams!
Welcome to MCDB's incoming cohort of students!
Our incoming class, consisting of 21 students, includes Dana Al Disi, Ziqian An, Amy Apfelbaum, Afia Asamoah, Caleb Clark, Carter Gaines, Matt…
Congratulations to Midhun Anne, Paul Toth, Ezgi Elmas and Chetan Gomatan for earning their Ph.D. from the Molecular, Cellular,…
Congratulations to Brendan Moran, Mackenzie Dillenbeck and Jack Gregory for receiving fellowships from the Cellular, Molecular and Biochemical Sciences Program!…
Congratulations to Zianne Olverson, Yuanfeng Wang, Abbey Hershner, and Madeline Burghaze for passing their candidacy exams!
Congratulations to Jack Bozik for winning Best Oral Presentation in the Basic/Translational Research Category at the Neuroscience Day event!
The Department of Neuroscience Research Day is an…
Congratulations to Patrick Green, who was recently named as the Distinguished University Professor for 2025. This is the highest honor that faculty at the university can receive.
Patrick…
Congratulations to Debadrita Paul for receiving a Center for RNA Biology Graduate Fellowship! Debadrita was one of three students selected to receive the fellowship.
Congratulations to Ayushi Das for winning second place in the poster session at the Department of Internal Medicine Annual Scientific Symposium. Ayushi's poster centered on her work on a novel…
Congratulations to Rocio Zaldivar for receiving the Daniel Wolf Prize for best poster at the 51st Annual Retroviruses meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Rocio presented her thesis project which…
Congratulations to all of the MCDB students who won awards at the IGP Symposium! Here is a list of all of the MCDB students who won awards at the symposium:
MCDB student selected speaker: …
Alexi Tallan, a fifth-year MCDB student, has published his first authored paper in Cells Reports Methods. The publication is titled, "Highly quantitative measurement of differential protein-genome…
Congratulations to Shan-Lu Liu for earning the Distinguished Scholar Award! In ERIK's write-up about Shan-Lu's award, he is cited as being, "an internationally recognized leader…
Congratulations to Bryan Perez-Soto and Julia Faraone for being recognized for their outstanding work during the Graduate School Award Ceremony!
Bryan was awarded the
Congratulations to Wenfang Liu, Julia Faraone, Mackenzie Turner, Hannah (Hartzler) Lovins and Jade Blackwell for earning their…
Congratulations to Leyre Jimenez Garcia for being selected as a Pelotonia Graduate Scholar! They will be presented on stage at the Pelotonia Sympoium on April 11.
Congratulations to Ayushi Das for winning third place for her oral presentation in the "Health Sciences" category in the OSU Hayes Advanced Research Forum!
The Edward F. Hayes Advanced…
Congratulations to Annika Chura and Electra Coffman for winning first and third place, respectively, in the OSU Hayes Advanced Research Forum Poster Session in…
Congratulations to Hsiang-Ling Huang for her two first author papers describing the use of cryo-electron microscopy to solve the molecular structures of two muscle proteins: dysferlin, published…
Congratulations to Jessica Herstine for receiving an NIH F99/K00 award titled "Molecular profiling of seizures to provide comprehensive, durable, and targeted treatment for inherited white…
Congratulations to Bryan Perez-Soto on receiving the 2024 MCDB Student Spotlight Award for Service and Engagement. Bryan was acknowledged for his extensive service to MCDB and the broader…
Congratulations to Electra Coffman, Caden Martin and Emily Payne for earning first, second and third place respectively in MCDB 3MT Competition. Electra will advance to the University-wide 3MT…
Congratulations to Kenzie Turner for her first-author paper on tissue-engineered vascular grafts published in Nature Communications
Congratulations to Jessica Herstine on winning first place in the 2023 annual MCDB 3 Minute Thesis competition. Jess will now advance to the University-wide competition in the Spring.
Congratulations to Debi Mukherjee for receiving a prestigious 2023-24 Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential as she…
Congratulations to Gargi Mishra on her first-authored publication entitled "The metabolic and functional roles of sensory nerves in adipose tissues", published in Nature Metabolism
Congratulations to Anuvrat Sircar on his first-authored paper on Mantle Cell Lymphoma, published in Leukemia
Congratulations to Ashley Francois on receiving an NIH F31 Pre-doctoral Fellowship for her work on the role of BET proteins in pathological cardiac remodeling under the mentorship of Dr. Matthew…
Congratulations to MCDB student Julia Faraone for her first-author paper on antibody neutralization of Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Congratulations to recent MCDB graduate Swagata Goswami and current MCDB student Jessica Nunes for their co-authored paper on acute myeloid leukemia published in the journal Blood
Congratulations to MCDB student Arundhati Kavoor for her first-author paper on the proofreading activity of alanyl-tRNA synthetase published in Journal of Biological Chemistry
Congratulations to MCDB student Monica Mannings Blatnik for receiving a Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Service in Mentoring Excellence.
Congratulations to MCDB student Shridhar Sanghvi for receiving a prestigious Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School
Congratulations to MCDB student Jack Evans for his paper on SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody responses published in Science Translational Medicine
Congratulations to MCDB student Pablo Vidal-Souza for receiving a pre-doctoral fellowship from American Heart Association
Anita Hopper, MCDB faculty member and member of the MCDB Graduate Studies Committee, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Hopper is one of 120 new members and is part of NAS…
MCBD student Shridhar Sanghvi won the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Physiology and Biophysics Award for his poster presentation at the Ohio Physiological Society…
Anna Smith, 3rd year MCDB student in the Sharma Lab, won the College of Veterinary Medicine's Annual Research Day award for Immunology and Infectious Disease. Her presentation was titled, …
Congratulations to 5th year MCDB student, Anisha Kalidindi! Anisha recently participated in a virtual mini case student competition hosted by the Center for Career and Professional Success (Career…
Congratulations to MCDB student, Kelsey Pinckard, for being awarded a F31 by the National Institute of Health. Kelsey is a 4th year student in Kristin Stanford's laboratory.
Dr. Aman Husbands, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, was featured on episode 5 of season 5 of the Plantae podcast "The Taproot". Click here to learn more!
Revati Dewal and Kelsey Pickard have been awarded the Nishikawara Scholars Award from the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology. The Margaret T. Nishikawara Scholar Award was established to…
On May 9th, OSU plans to celebrate the graduating class of 2021 in person. To allow for a safe celebration with physical distancing, we will hold two spring ceremonies on May 9 with no more than…
Congrats to our Autumn 2020 3MT winners!
1st place - Revati Dewal
2nd place - Callie Lovejoy
3rd place - Anupama Rao
Congratulations to Adrianna Matos, recipient of the first MCDB Student Spotlight Award for Service & Engagement. This new award, which we implemented at the suggestion of the GSO, aims to…
Congratulations to our new MCDB GSO Officers!
President- Monica Mannings Vice President- Revati Dewal Treasurer- Andrea…
Congratulations to our 2020 MCDB graduates!
Summer Term: Justin Middleton & Giovanna Merchand Reyes
Autumn semester: John Sherman, Ruohan Wu & Abigail Beer
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The academic calendar will be adjusted for autumn semester. The first day of classes will be Tuesday, August 25 and the last day will be December 4- with the last day of in-person, on-campus…
To our MCDB faculty and students:
We are facing challenging yet vital times as communities around the country come together to protest police brutality against black people after the…
The University has announced that in-person classes will resume in autumn semester with measures to reduce the covid transmission. More guidelines will be announced in the coming weeks about the use…
Congratulations to the Spring 2020 MCDB graduates!
Paul Kelly & Daniel Del Valle Morales
Congrats to our Autumn 2019 3MT winners!
1st place - Talita Choudhury
2nd place - Mariella Mestres-Villanueva
3rd place -…
Congratulations to the Autumn 2019 MCDB graduates!
Hannah Bekebrede & Nathaniel Buteyn
Congratulations to 3rd year MCDB student, Randa Breikaa, for winning the Graduate Student Poster at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Retreat. Randa joined…
4th year MCDB Student Featured in Pediatrics Nationwide blog
Sanjana Rajan, 4th year MCDB student in the Ryan Roberts…
MCDB Graduate Studies Committee
The MCDB Graduate Studies Committee welcomes Aman Husbands, Maria Mihaylova, Ruoning…
Congratulations to our new MCDB GSO Officers!
President- Jack Evans Vice President- Ben Oakes Treasurer…
Congratulations to 4th year MCDB student, Adrianna Matos, for being featured in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute Discover Booklet. Adrianna is in the Garg Lab at…
Congratulations to 2nd year MCDB student, Monica Mannings, for winning 1st prize Graduate Student Poster at the Midwest Zebrafish Meeting. Monica joined the Amacher Lab in 2018.
…
Effects of Exercise to Improve Cardiovascular Health
Front Cardiovasc Med. 2019 Jun 4;6:69. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00069. eCollection 2019.
MCDB alum and current Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Silent Spring Institute, Andrea Hindman, represented her organization at the California Breast Cancer Research Program’s Global Idea Challenge…