UTMB NIEHS Pre-doctoral Fellow is recipient of Kenneth M. Johnson Pharmacology/Toxicology Endowment Fund award
August 11, 2020
Amy Cooper won the award for the Best Candidacy Student Oral Presentation, for her talk entitled, "Differential Roles of the ARNT isoforms during T cell activation", at the Fourth Annual Pharmacology & Toxicology Summer Symposium.
Presentation Highlight: ARNT is alternatively spliced during T cell activation in a manner that leads to a predominance of ARNT isoform 1 which promotes the expression of the T cell growth factor, IL-2.