2019 Safar Symposium
The 17th Annual Safar Symposium took place on April 22nd and 23rd this year, and was an outstanding success, and one the most well attended in the event’s history.
Safar Faculty Members Awarded Chuck Noll Grants
Safar Center Faculty members, Ruchira Jha MD, and Shaun Carlson, PhD, have been awarded grants by the Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research.
Dr. Sherry Chou Awarded R21 from the NIH
Safar Center Associate Director Sherry Chou, PhD, just received a notice of award for her new R21 grant, titled “MicroRNA Endotypes of Systemic Inflammation in Sub-Arachnoid hemorrhaGE (MESSAGE).”
Ihuoma Njoku Wins Bert and Sally O’Malley Award
Ihuoma Njoku was recently awarded the Bert and Sally O’Malley Award for outstanding medical students at the 2019 Pitt Medical School Scholars Day.
Safar Center Fellow Onome Oghifobibi Wins Pediatric Academic Society Travel Award
Onome Oghifobibi, MD, a second-year fellow received the Diversity in the Research Workforce Travel Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.