Grant Awarded to Physiologist
By Brent Davis
AUHS is pleased to announce that Dr. Oksana Zayachkivska, Professor of Physiology in the School of Medicine, has received a grant from the Physiological Society to support a seminar for students at AUHS and Lviv National Medical University (Ukraine). The purpose of the seminar is to promote interest in physiology in relation to health and disease. The Physiological Society of the UK is the oldest in the world and includes 60 Nobel Prize winners among its members and scientists from over 60 countries. Student membership is free. Prof. Zayachkivska is a representative of this society and will be conducting the seminar in this capacity.
The seminar, “Obesity: Lessons from the Scientific Studies About Brown Fat” will help students at both universities to use physiological evidence to improve public health, understand diseases better, and find innovative ways to improve diagnoses and treatments. Our congratulations again to Dr. Zayachkivska!
