MU Biomedical - News

Melinda "Mindy" Varney is a Ph.D. candidate within Marshall University's Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and has been selected to receive funding from the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium for a third year!  The Board will fund her research project for $12,000.

Mindy submitted a new project for funding this time around. The project investigates survivin as a mediator of dietary omega 3 fatty acid effects on hematopoiesis. She recently had a paper published in Lipids in Health and Disease entitled "Omega 3 fatty acids reduce myeloid progenitor cell frequency in the bone marrow of mice and promote progenitor cell differentiation." Her grant proposal investigates the mechanism by which this occurs.

Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine's Biomedical Sciences graduate program is proud of Mindy and her accomplishments.  Congratulations, Mindy!