Tyler Moran, Ph.D., who completed his thesis in the lab of Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Lori Raetzman, was selected as the 2011 recipient of the Molecular Endocrinology Student Author Award.
Tyler Moran, Ph.D., who completed his thesis in the lab of Assistant Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Lori Raetzman, was selected as the 2011 recipient of the Molecular Endocrinology Student Author Award. This award was for the publication "Numb deletion in POMC expressing cells impairs pituitary intermediate lobe cell adhesion, progenitor cell localization, and neuro-intermediate lobe boundary formation" in Molecular Endocrinology.
The Endocrine Society presents a yearly award to outstanding first authored papers in Molecular Endocrinology and Endocrinology, the flagship journals of the Endocrine society. The award will be presented at ENDO 2012, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in Houston, Texas. Tyler is currently a fourth year medical student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign College of Medicine.