Jason MacGurn has been appointed to the NIH MRAD Study Section with a term beginning in July 2026. As described on the NIH website: “Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award - D Study Section (MRAD) reviews NIGMS-sponsored MIRA (R35) grant applications that focus on...
Pedro Henrique Ayres Galhardo, a first-year graduate student in Vanderbilt’s IGP program, has joined the MacGurn Lab for his thesis research. Pedro, a graduate of Lipscomb University, will be conducting research to understand how cells sense and respond to changes in...
Check out our recent collaborative study with the Burkewitz Lab, published in Nature Cell Biology (March, 2026). This study explores ER remodeling in aging cells and underscores an important role for ER-phagy. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41629400/