UofUtah.CIHD
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NIDDK-Sponsored Center for Iron & Hematology Disorders at The University of Utah School of Medicine
Congrats to the University of Utah's Dr. Betty Leibold who, together with Drs. Matthias Hentze, Tracey Rouault and Lukas Kuhn, received the Marcel Simon Award for the discovery of the IRE-IPR regulatory system at the 10th Congress of the International BioIron Society in Montreal!

Utah CIHD trainees Allison Fisher, Audrey Belot, and Brian Czaya represent at the BioIron Meeting in Montreal May 2025!



We are pleased to announce that our Center for Iron and Heme Disorders (CIHD) within the Division of Hematology at the University of Utah School of Medicine will fund two to three small pilot grants in 2025. Please see details here cihd.cores.utah.edu/funding/.
Utah and BYU are sponsoring a Proteomics Training Course offered at the University of Utah Crocker Center July 14-17, 2025. Check out the details here cores.utah.edu/mass-spectrome….

Join our next meeting from the CIHD Virtual Seminar Series 2024-2025 on Tuesday, May 13th at 9:00 am MT! “Autophagy ATG4A in normal and impaired erythropoiesis” presented by Massiel Chavez Stolla, Ph.D. @NIDDKgov

Erica Hastings from Paul Sigala’s lab (@sigalalab) is defending her thesis on May 15th, 2025 at 2:00pm. Please join us at the EIHG Auditorium.

Congratulations to The Galmozzi Lab and the CCEH-sponsored Utah Metabolomics Core for their recent publication in Nature Metabolism - "Haem biosynthesis regulates BCAA catabolism and thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue". Learn more here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40133548/.

Congratulations to Utah CIHD members Jihyun Song and Josef Prchal on their publication "Alternatively spliced NFKB1 transcripts enriched in Andean Aymara modulate inflammation, HIF and hemoglobin"! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39971917/

Don't miss our next meeting from the CIHD Virtual Seminar Series 2024-2025 on Tuesday, April 15th at 9:00 am MT! “Biological and Genetic determinants of Red Blood Cell Metabolism: Do RBCs die of Ferroptosis?” presented by Angelo D’Alessandro, Ph.D. @NIDDKgov

Join our next meeting from the CIHD Virtual Seminar Series 2024-2025 tomorrow, March 11th at 9:00 am MT! “Disentangling the function of Syndecan-2 in hematopoiesis” presented by Christina M. Termini, Ph.D. @NIDDKgov

The Utah CIHD is hosting a “Rising Stars in Hematology and Iron and Heme Disorders Symposium” next Monday, March 10th, 8:50 am - 3:00 pm MST. Our Keynote speaker is Dr. Britta Will from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. See the flyer for a schedule and more details.

If you missed our CCEH Multiomics Monday presentation from Kevin G Hicks, Ph.D., check out our YouTube channel - youtube.com/watch?v=4RjnNr….
CIHD Sponsored Professional Training Luncheon on March 11th at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Hope to see you at the combined Red Cell Club East-West Iron Club Meeting in fall 2025!!
Watch for the Utah CIHD U54 Rising Stars in Iron, Heme and Hematology Symposium March 10th, 2025! @NIDDKgov

Congratulations to those Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students that have been selected for the Utah U54 CIHD Rising Stars Symposium and Core Training!
Check out the Professional Training Opportunity offered at the Yale CCEH 2025 - medicine.yale.edu/labmed/ycceh/e… @YaleCCEH
If you missed our first CCEH Multiomics Monday presentation from James Cox, Ph.D., check out our YouTube channel - youtube.com/watch?v=0o7OsY….