Student and Research Highlights

Meet some of Upstate's outstanding students. Read stories of student research, activities, honors, and happenings, as chronicled in Upstate's blog, "With Distinction", by Jim McKeever.

Student in MD/PhD program wins $60,000 research award
Nick Huang’s relentless pursuit of answers has paid off. The fourth-year Upstate student in the MD/PhD program has received a prestigious Rheumatology Research…

Biochemistry PhD student wins best poster at Gordon conference
The long trajectory of biomedical science research is evident in Upstate student Stuti Sharma’s award for best poster at a prestigious conference this summer.…

Medical student designs T-shirt for Day of Service Sept. 10
Art is just a hobby for Liz Sulger, but she and more than 100 fellow Upstate students will wear some of her artwork during the Day of Service and Remembrance Sept.…

PhD student wins award for ‘immunological memory’ research
Upstate PhD student Kevin Kenderes specializes in memory. Not the kind of memory associated with recall, but the “immunological memory” of B cells within the…

Neuroscience student wins top poster prize for vision research
Neuroscience PhD student Rose Pasquale was awarded the top prize in a poster competition at the 2017 meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology…

Stopping invasive breast cancer tumor cells in their tracks
In the course of two days at the prestigious Gordon Research Seminar in California, Upstate graduate student Greg Goreczny went from terrified to gratified. Greg,…