Medical Student Research Day Set for August 1

The University of South Alabama College of Medicine’s 41st annual Medical Student Research Day will feature Dr. Arthur P. Grollman, distinguished professor of pharmacological sciences, Evelyn G. Glick Professor of Experimental Medicine, and director of the Zickler Laboratory of Chemical Biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB).

The event will take place August 1, 2014, in the Medical Sciences Building. Oral presentations will begin at 8:30 a.m. and poster presentations will begin at 12:30 p.m. Dr. Grollman’s lecture will take place at 11 a.m. in the Medical Sciences Building Auditorium.

Dr. Grollman has published more than 200 papers in the fields of molecular biology and cancer research. His current research interests focus on the biological consequences of DNA damage as they relate to molecular mechanisms of DNA replication, mutagenesis, and DNA repair.

Dr. Grollman received his B.A. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Following internship and residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, he conducted research at the National Institutes of Health. He then joined the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y., where he became professor of medicine, pharmacology and molecular biology. He served concurrently as associate dean for scientific affairs at Albert Einstein from 1970 to 1972 and held a similar position in the School of Medicine at SUNYSB from 1994 to 1996.

To learn more about Dr. Grollman’s research, click here.

For more information on Medical Student Research Day, contact Marcina Lang at (251) 461-1548.