This October, many members of the Leung Lab got to travel to the 2023 ASTMH* meeting in Chicago to share posters, give talks, chair sessions and network with our fantastic international community of researchers working to improve global health! Kilee…
Dan, Owen, Olivia and Daniel present at CD1-MR1 in Gothenburg 2022
This May we were delighted to be back in-person for the the bi-annual CD1-MR1 conference, held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Senior Ph.D. students Dan, Owen, and Olivia met Daniel in Gothenburg, who was traveling from his sabbatical in Tanzania. This made…
Summer of ’19 Recap
The summer has flown by and among the highlights were several lab potlucks. The photos above don’t do it justice, but our team has some amazing cooking skills. Reasons for our gatherings included: 1) the receipt of institutional training grants…
Owen and Daniel passed their prelims!
Last weekend was our annual lab Holiday Party, and we took the occasion to celebrate the recent accomplishments of a couple of our graduate students. Owen Jensen and Daniel Labuz, students in the Molecular Biology graduate program, passed their prelims!…
New funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation!
As we mentioned in a previous post, recently at the ASTMH conference, we held a kickoff meeting for a project titled, “Development of a Bayesian diagnostic for etiological management of pediatric diarrhea.” This project is funded by the Bill &…
Our team at the ASTMH annual meeting
Last week, 5 members of our group attended the Annual Meeting of the ASTMH (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) in New Orleans. We experienced some amazing Cajun food, street Jazz, and of course, the charms of the…
Best of luck, Michael and Cole!
Over the summer, we’ve had a couple of bittersweet parties, where we celebrated achievements, welcomed new PhD students, and sent off two of our lab members. Michael Graves is leaving us to attend medical school in Iowa, and Cole Anderson…
Time to celebrate
Last week, we went out to Asian Tao to celebrate a few of our team’s recent achievements: 1) We received an R01 award, a 5-year grant from the NIH/NIAID. We will be working in collaboration with scientists at the icddr,b in Dhaka,…
Anita selected for Travel Award to ASTMH Conference
Congratulations to Anita Iyer, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in our lab, who has been selected to receive an ASTMH (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) Annual Meeting Award, supported in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She will…
UROP awardees present at recent conferences
Congratulations to our Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) recipients for their poster presentations at recent research conferences! Joe Fuell presented a poster on “Immune Response to Native American Antidiarrheals” at the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research in February (left photo),…
Leung lab awarded Center for Clinical and Translational Science grant
The Leung lab has been awarded a grant from the University of Utah’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Program in Personalized Health to identify biomarkers for refractory Clostridium difficile infection. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most common…
University of Utah Undergraduate Research Opportunities (UROP) Summer 2015 Grantees
Congratulations to our 3 University of Utah Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grantees! Amanda, Joe, and Mait all received summer stipends to work on their research projects in our lab. Amanda Barrett The purpose of my UROP project is to…