July 2025 News and Publications
July 11, 2025
Publications:
Christina M. Ferrer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Garis Grant, PhD Candidate, Molecular Medicine, reviewed The role of the immune tumor microenvironment in shaping metastatic dissemination, dormancy, and outgrowth. Trends in Cell Biology, 2025.
Ashley E. Marquardt, PhD, Program Manager, UM-MIND, and Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, along with several other collaborators co-authored, The transcriptome of playfulness is sex biased in the juvenile rat medial amygdala: a role for inhibitory neurons. Cell Reports, 2025.
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UM School of Medicine's Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD, Elected as Member of Prestigious National Academy of Medicine
Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD, an internationally-recognized neuroscientist, who is the James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Endowed Professor in the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Drug Development, and Director of the University of Maryland – Medicine Institute of Neuroscience Discovery (UM-MIND), has been elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine.