Jennifer Richards, a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Randy Sprague, was awarded a Graduate Dissertation Fellowship from Saint Louis University to begin July, 2013.

Jennifer Richards, Graduate Student in the lab of Dr. Randy Sprague, gave a talk at the 5th International Congress on Prediabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome in Vienna, Austria on April 18-20, 2013. Her talk was entitled, "Rescuing Low O2-Induced ATP Release from Erythrocytes of Humans with Type 2 Diabetes (DM2): New Role for C-peptide in the Treatment of Diabetes."