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Urgent Need for Brain Donations

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
There is an urgent need for brain donations throughout the University of Iowa. This process is free of charge to any active patient at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and helps contribute to neuroscience research across Iowa and nationwide. If you are interested or have questions, please call 319-335-8427 or email marco-hefti@uiowa.edu (preferred).
Kimberly Fiock

Kimberly Fiock is the recipient of the 2023 spring Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship

The Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship is awarded to students to recognize their distinguished academic achievement and to provide protected time for research.
Kimberly Fiock

Kimberly Fiock wins a Women & Diversity award from the American Association of Neuropathologists

imberly Fiock, an Experimental Pathology PhD student in Dr. Marco Hefti’s laboratory, has received a Women & Diversity award from the American Association of Neuropathologists (AANP).
Kim Franklin

Kimberly Fiock awarded the L.B. Sims Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in the Biological and Life Sciences

Kimberly Fiock, BS, MS, was awarded the 2022 University of Iowa L. B. Sims Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in the Biological and Life Sciences. Kimberly was a graduate student in the Pathology MS Program from 2018-2020, and completed her thesis entitled “The Developmental Expression and Regulation of Tau” under the guidance of Dr. Marco Hefti. The award is conferred by the Graduate College and Kimberly will be honored for her achievement at the upcoming 2022 James F. Jakobsen Graduate Research Conference. She will also receive a $500 honorarium.
Dr. Hefti's lab members standing in a lab wearing masks

Dr. Marco Hefti is awarded the 2021 Supervisor of the Year Award from the University of Iowa Pomerantz Career Center

Dr. Marco Hefti was awarded the Overall Winner of the Supervisor of the Year award for 2021 by the Pomerantz Career Center at the University of Iowa.
Marco and Kim

Kimberly Fiock Defends her Pathology M.S. Thesis

Kimberly Fiock (M.S. in Pathology) successfully defended her thesis entitled “The Developmental Expression and Regulation of Tau” this July.