Grants & Contracts:

Bob Bloch, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology received a grant with the Jain Foundation for 1 year, $127,530.

Publications:

Vivek Garg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and postdoctoral fellows, Anshu Kumari, PhD and Dung M. Nguyen, PhD, were among the co-authors of “Excessive EFHD1-dependent ER-mitochondrial contacts drive a maladaptive antiviral response in metabolic liver disease” which was published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation on September 1st, 2026.

Michele Vitolo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology and Stuart Martin, PhD, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Physiology were the senior authors along with the additional coauthors John Schmitz, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Min Yu, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Taofeek Owonikowo, MBChB, DrMed, MS, Professor of Medicine and UMGCCC Director of “Single-Cell Profiling of Anoikis Resistance in Patient-Derived Xenografts and Primary Circulating Tumor Cells using TetherChip,” which was published in ACS Applied Materials Interfaces on August 14, 2026.