Indiana University School of Medicine - Bloomington

Today was our semester kickoff event! Welcome to all the new students and we hope all of you have a fantastic year!

Shout out to & for the good eats!

A rare opportunity to hear directly from the co-founder of mitochondrial genetics is coming to Indiana University.

Douglas Wallace, PhD, MD (h.c.), the 2025 winner of the Steven C. Beering Award, will share his work with the IU School of Medicine community Aug. 25 from noon to 1:30 p.m. ET, with a reception to follow.

Wallace's groundbreaking work has been re-shaping the way scientists think about aging, disease and even the way our bodies respond to viruses like COVID-19. His lecture, "Mitochondrial Medicine: The New Biomedical Reality," will take place at Walther Hall on the IU Indianapolis campus. A Zoom link will be provided to attendees who are not able to attend in person.

Congratulations to Sunandan Chakrabarti for winning Outstanding CMCB Graduate Student for 2025!
-From Carpenter Lab

A world-renowned cancer scientist who studies how the arrangement of DNA inside cells affects cancer will speak at Indiana University School of Medicine on April 28. Feng Yue, PhD , a key contributor to a groundbreaking discovery that changed our understanding of the human genome, is the winner of the 2025 IU School of Medicine Mark Brothers Award. His presentation, "Epigenomic and 3D Genome Alteration in Cancer at Single-Cell Resolution," will take place at 1 p.m. ET April 28 at IU Indianapolis, Joseph E. Walther Hall, 980 W. Walnut St., Indianapolis. Register at https://go.iu.edu/8sQm.

The MS1s decided for their last day of Host Defense to all dress as Dr. Hrisomalos. Congrats on finishing Host Defense this week!!

Congratulations to the winners of the Three Minute Thesis competition! But a huge shout out to Haddie DeHart on winning the people's choice category!

Friday was Match Day! Congratulations to the fourth-year medical students who successfully paired with residency programs as part of Match Day 2025. Great job on such a major accomplishment!