COURTNEY GRIFFIN LAB

New AHA Postdoc Fellowship awarded

April 23, 2018 By griffinc

Big congrats to Chris Schafer who was just awarded a 2-year AHA Postdoc Fellowship for his fascinating project studying hyaloid regression in the neonatal murine eye. We’re proud of you, Chris!

Best wishes to Matt

The lab is bidding a fond farewell to its senior Postdoc, Matt Menendez, as he leaves to pursue an exciting opportunity as the Scientific Consultant for the NYC-based law firm Siri & Glimstad. We have benefited greatly from Matt’s creativity and hard work for the past six years and are wishing him the best in […]

Outstanding Poster Award

Congrats to Bridget Parrish, who won an Outstanding Poster Award at her first annual NAVBO meeting in October. Based on her poster, Bridget has been further honored by being selected to present at an online NAVBO research forum in January. We’re so proud of you, Bridget!

Summer Scholar

The Griffin lab has been delighted to host Andrianna Buxton this summer through the new Langston Biomedical Research Scholars program at OMRF. Andrianna has spent two months working closely with Dr. Chris Schafer studying inflammatory factors that increase lung vascular permeability. We’re grateful for Andrianna’s hard work and hope to welcome her back to the […]

Saxon Scholar

The lab has had the pleasure of hosting Erika Willis, a rising Senior at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as our Saxon Scholar this summer. Erika spent a month working with Chris Schafer studying inflammation-induced vascular permeability in the lung. We are proud of Erika’s accomplishments in the lab this summer and wish her the […]

Graduate Student Scholarship

Congrats to Rahul Rajala for his OMRF Predoctoral Scholarship, which will fund his research on protease-activated receptors for the next academic year.