Congratulations to Dr. Harshraj Shinde for receiving a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the American Diabetes Association! We are grateful and appreciative for the ADA for funding his application.

We are excited for Anna Mahr receiving the FY25 Biomedical Research Training Program Award and the 3rd Annual Joan Hunt Award! Congratulations Anna!

We are proud to announce that Emma Peters received gold in the microbiology category, a separate "special award" and a blue division ribbon at this year's Greater Kansas City Science and Engineering Fair held at Union Station. Four of blue ribbon posters will be chosen to represent the United States this year.

We are proud to announce that KaLia Burnette, graduate trainee in the Tse lab, was recently awarded a F31 training fellowship from the NIH. Thank you all for all of your efforts! Details below:
Grant Number: 1F31GM150237-01A1
Principal Investigator: Burnette, KaLia
Project Title: Identifying Gestational-induced Changes in Islet Macrophages as a Potential Target for Beta-cell Expansion

After nearly 14 years at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the Tse lab has moved to the Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology at the University of Kansas Medical Center! We are excited by this new move, enjoying our new lives in the Midwest, and looking forward to growing our research program at KU Medical Center.

Graduate trainees, KaLia Burnette and Miranda Chávez, both won 2^nd place for oral presentation awards and the three minute thesis People's Choice award (Miranda Chávez) at the 2023 Student Research Forum at KU Medical Center.

Dr. Hubert Tse was honored to give the Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Keynote on May 17, 2023, to provide insight on his background and path to academia.