KU Molecular Biosciences Symposium 2024 Award Winners Announced

The KU Molecular Biosciences Symposium was held Friday, August 23, 2024. This annual symposium is organized and hosted by the 4th-Year Molecular Biosciences graduate students. Keynote Speaker, Dr. Stephen J. McSorley, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.

The Mark Richter Memorial Award was established during the event, to honor of professor Mark Richter, who acted as chair of Molecular Biosciences in the late 1990s and again from2010-2014. . Mark received numerous awards for his teaching and student mentoring while at KU, including the Mortar Board Outstanding Educator award (1991), the Kemper Teaching Excellence award (2002), the Dean’s Scholar’s Mentor award (1999, 2000), the J. Michael Young Outstanding Graduate Advisor award (2005) and the Byron A. Alexander CLAS Graduate Mentor award (2005).

Bikash Pokhrel - 2024 MB Symposium Oral Presentation Award

Andrew Daufel - 2024 MB Symposium Poster Presentation Award

Macie Proctor-Roser - 2024 MB Symposium Poster Presentation Award

Eldric Carreon - 2024 MB Symposium Poster Presentation Award

This symposium is possible through support from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences CoBRE in Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease (P20GM113117), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences CoBRE for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways (P30GM145499), the Kansas Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE, P20GM103418), the University of Kansas Cancer Center (KUCC), and the Molecular Biosciences Graduate Student Organization (MB GSO).