Mengxi Jiang, a third-year pharmaceutical sciences graduate student in the laboratory of Professor Wen Xie at the School of Pharmacy, has been chosen to receive the 2012 George Wang Memorial Student Assistance Fund Award in Pharmacogenetics based on her research proposal, “The Steroid Sulfastase Prevents Bile Acid Toxicity by Activating the LXR Signaling Pathway.”
This award was established in memory of George Wang, an outstanding graduate student in the Department of Human Genetics. The award was made possible by an endowment established by Novartis and the Wang family and is sponsored by the Department of Human Genetics at the Graduate School of Public Health and their partners: the Center for Pharmacogenetics, School of Pharmacy; the Center for Clinical Pharmacology, School of Medicine; and the Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine.
