Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellows
These one-of-a-kind (United States), fast-track transition fellowships were听 developed听uniquely by the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, to support the careers of outstanding postdoctoral fellows.听 Fellows accepted into these positions are annually selected from a large pool of meritorious national and international applicants. The accomplishments of past and present trainees, as shown below, stand testimony to this outstanding program for high achieving postdoctoral fellows.
Xi Cheng, Ph.D.
Senior Data Scientist
March 2022 - present
Humana
Research Assistant Professor
January 2021 - March 2022
University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow
Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- Outstanding Student Award (Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences Program), 2017
- Selected for Postdoc to Faculty award at the University of Toledo College of Medicine, 2017
- Selected for American Physiological Society鈥檚 APSselect Award, 2017
- Selected for New Investigator Award, American Physiological Society Physiological Genomics Group, 2018
- Invited speaker as Physiological Genomics Group New Investigator Awardee at the Experimental Biology meeting 2018
- Selected for oral presentation at Gull Lake Hypertension Conference, 2018
- Selected for APS Publications Star Reviewer, American Physiological Society, 2019
- Selected for HTN New Investigator Travel Award, AHA Council on Hypertension, 2020
- Post-doctoral Mentoring Leadership Award, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2020
- APS Publications Star Reviewer, American Physiological Society, 2021
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Seungyong Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor听
June 2021-present
College of Graduate Studies
Tenure Track, Midwestern University
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow
October 2020 - June 2021
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Toledo, College of
Medicine and Life Sciences
- Secured Tenure-track position at Midwestern University, Arizona
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Cameron McCarthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
August 2021 - Present
Cardiovascular Translational Research Center
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
University of South Carolina
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow
June 2018 - July 2021
University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences听
- 2019 Invited and joined the AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology Editorial Board.
- 2019 Third place winner of the 2019 APS-Cardiovascular Section Outstanding Postdoctoral Trainee Award, Experimental Biology Meeting, Cardiovascular Young Investigator Section, American Physiological Society, USA
- 2019 Recipient of the Council on Hypertension New Investigator Award
- AHA Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2018-2020
- 2019 Invited and joined the Hypertension Editorial Board
- 2020 Invited and joined the American Journal of Hypertension Editorial Board
- 2020 NIH/NHLBI Career Transition (K99-R00) Grant $109,840/year (PI) 2020-2025
- 2020 American Heart Association Career Development Award.听Title of Project: Autophagy regulates Beta-hydroxybutyrate synthesis to prevent hypertension-associated premature vascular aging. Approved funding level of $231,000.
- 2020 invited and joined the editorial board of Translation: 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Journal of Medical Sciences as Associate Editor
- 2020 Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) Council on Hypertension
- 2021 Invited and joined the editorial board of Vascular Physiology (specialty section of Frontiers in Physiology) as Review Editor
- 2021 APS Cardiovascular Section Clinical Science Young Investigator Award Sponsored by Portland Press
- 2021- Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina
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Beng San Yeoh
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow
January 2020 -听 present
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Toledo, College of
Medicine and Life Sciences
- 听Postdoctoral Fellowship from听American Heart Association (4/1/21-3/31/2023)
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Tao Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
August 2021 - Present
University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow
July 2019 - July 2021
University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- 2019 听听听Recipient of the Council on Hypertension New Investigator Award
- 2019听听听 Trainee Research Recognition Award, Physiological -Omics group, American Physiological Society
- 2019听听听 Biocodex Microbiota USA Foundation Research Grant $50,000 (PI)
- 2019听听听 New Investigator Travel Award, American Heart Association
- 2019听听听 Best of Specialty, American Heart Association
- 2020 Invited and joined the Hypertension Editorial Board
- 2021 American Heart Association Career Development Award. Title of Project: Autophagy regulates Beta-hydroxybutyrate synthesis to prevent hypertension-associated premature vascular aging. Approved funding level of $231,000.
- 2021- Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences
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