Neuroscience graduate student Erin Santos earns Gilliam Fellows award
Erin Santos, a graduate student and Ph.D. candidate in the Vollum Institute/OHSU Neuroscience Graduate Program, is the recipient of a 2024 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or HHMI, Gilliam Fellows Program award. The prestigious award recognizes talented early career scientists in the biomedical sciences.
“I am honored to receive the HHMI Gilliam award,” Santos said. “This fellowship will support my graduate research aiming to uncover how astrocytes regulate neuronal circuit activity and behavior. The award also provides resources to improve the OHSU Neuroscience Graduate Program. I am excited about the opportunities this fellowship brings for my development as a scientific leader, and hope it contributes to the betterment of the OHSU research community.”
Santos works in the lab of Marc Freeman, Ph.D., director of and senior scientist in the Vollum Institute. She is among 50 graduate students in science and their advisers who were named to the 2024 cohort of the Gilliam Fellows Program.
“I am thrilled and very proud of Erin — she really deserves this award,” said Freeman, who is Santos’ mentor. “She’s a bright, creative and hard-working researcher, and outward-thinking person that sincerely wants to make our community at OHSU better. I’m looking forward to helping her do that however I can, and I’m grateful to HHMI for supporting her efforts with this prestigious award.”
Administered by HHMI’s Center for the Advancement of Science Leadership and Culture, the program will provide each student-adviser pair with $53,000 in support each year for up to three years of the student’s dissertation research. This year’s cohort includes scientists working in various biomedical and life science areas.
The program emphasizes the importance of mentorship in developing scientific leaders, and provides leadership training and opportunities for engagement with peers and program alumni. The Gilliam Fellows Program also supports advisers to promote healthy and inclusive graduate training environments.
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School of Medicine duo tackle sports injuries at Portland State University
When a Portland State University athlete is injured, Melissa Novak, D.O., associate professor of family medicine and a sports medicine physician in the OHSU School of Medicine, and surgeon Jacqueline Brady, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the OHSU School of Medicine, come to their aid.
This dynamic duo serves as the Head Team Physicians at Portland State University, responsible for the health and well-being of Viking athletes. Their role is part of an 8-year strategic alliance between OHSU and PSU, originally focused on clinical care. However, Novak and Brady have also played a key role in involving student-athletes in broader research, innovation and scholarship initiatives at the OHSU School of Medicine.
They are among the 11% of team physicians nationally who are women. Novak was recently elected to the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine National Board.
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