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Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow receives Simons Foundation award to support her future research

Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow receives Simons Foundation award to support her future research

Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow Liz Haynes received a Simons Foundation Transition to Independence Award to support her career studying the aging brain using a zebrafish model.

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Fruit fly research is heating up at Morgridge

Fruit fly research is heating up at Morgridge

The increasing impacts of climate change include the effect on fertility as a factor that could decide an organism’s survival or extinction. New research reveals how chronic exposure to warm temperatures affects sperm development in the model organism, Drosophila.

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Amani Gillette: An entrepreneur’s journey to improve cancer care

Amani Gillette: An entrepreneur’s journey to improve cancer care

Morgridge Postdoc Amani Gillette discusses her fascinating transition from bench science to entrepreneurship as she steers a new company devoted to improving personalized cancer therapies.

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Visual art on social media provides unique way to bridge gaps in science communication

Visual art on social media provides unique way to bridge gaps in science communication

A Morgridge-funded research project on the impact of visual art as a science communication tool on social media received an award at the 2023 AEJMC conference.

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