Category: Awards and Recognitions

Lauren Redlinger, a third year Medical Scholar majoring in Investigative Medical Sciences (Doisy College of Health Sciences), has been awarded a Summer Research Fellowship to continue her work in the laboratories of Drs. Gina Yosten and Willis Samson in the Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science, in the SLU School of Medicine. The Endocrine Society offers Summer Research Fellowships to encourage promising undergraduate students, medical students and first year graduate school students to pursue careers in endocrinology. The Fellowship provides a stipend to the recipient to participate in research projects under the guidance of a Society member for 10 to 12 weeks during the summer, and all expenses for the awardee to attend the Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, to be held in Houston in June 2012. Ms. Redlinger’s work in the Yosten/Samson lab has already resulted in the publication of her first, peer-reviewed manuscript (Yosten, Redlinger, Samson 2012 Evidence for a Role of Endogenous Nesfatin-1 in the Control of Water Drinking. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 24:1-7). Her current work focuses on the identification of the cognate receptor for the novel hormone, neuronostatin, discovered by the Yosten/Samson lab in 2008 (Samson et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283: 31949, 2008).

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