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2/2 SOS advocates for funds and supports expanded travel grant access for ASPET meetings. This #GivingTuesday, please consider supporting SOS or another of ASPET's programs with a tax-deductible donation. You can donate here: aspet.org/aspet/donate

Scientific funding has been especially challenging this year. Many early-career researchers are being especially impacted. This is why ASPET has created the Support Our Scientists (SOS) Fund. 1/2 aspet.org/aspet/advocacy…

Check out the article from The Pharmacologist describing our 2025 GLC-ASPET Meeting! thepharmacologist.org/aspet-glc-nov-…

ASPET-GLC would like to thank all of our sponsors and vendors for their support of our annual meeting!

Vendor fair at ASPET-GLC annual meeting.

ASPET-GLC would like to thank the following outgoing members of the Council for their service! · James O'Donnell MS PhD, President · Adriana Caballero PhD, Treasurer · Mohd Shahid PhD, Councilor

Thank you to ASPET Executive Officer David Jackson, CAE, MBA for sharing the benefits of membership in ASPET with our attendees. If you would like to join our national organization, please go to the following link: aspet.org/aspet/membersh…

Her poster was entitled, "CRISPLD2 overexpression through pGEM-T easy cloning and its effect on cell-mediated inflammation of Th17 cells in an invitro pathogenic Th17 cell model." Congrats, Minal! 2/2

Minal Mohammed of Lake Forest College won 2nd place in the undergraduate category of the poster competition. Minal is a summer research student at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. 1/2

Martin Ettlin Cuitiño of Lake Forest College won 1st place in the undergrad category of the poster competition. His poster was entitled, "Glial-specific function of the Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Protein Complex (EMC): distinct roles of individual subunits." Congrats, Martin!

Cydney Martell of Northwestern University won 3rd place in the graduate category of the poster competition. Her work was entitled, "Determinants of aggregation in small protein domains." Congrats, Cydney!

Demetria Neal of UIC won 2nd place in the grad category. Her work was entitled, "Dysregulation of MD thalamic-evoked prefrontal GluN2A and GABA-mediated local field potential responses following early life adversity exposure at a discrete developmental period." Congrats Demetria!

Giokdjen Ilktach of University of Illinois Chicago won 1st place in the graduate category of the poster competition. Her poster was entitled, "Involvement of calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II beta in chronic pain." Congrats, Giokdjen!

Inés Pulido PhD of University of Illinois-Chicago won 2nd place in the postdoctoral category of the poster competition at the ASPET-GLC meeting. Her poster was entitled, "Integrative analysis of acquired drug resistance to KRAS(G12D) inhibitors." Congrats, Dr. Pulido!

Zekun Shen of University of Illinois Chicago won 1st place in the postdoctoral category of the poster competition at the ASPET-GLC meeting. His poster was entitled, "Engineered Notch agonist mitigates doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity." Congrats, Dr. Shen!

Poster Session at GLC ASPET. Fifty-two posters were presented at the session from a wide variety of subfields of pharmacology. 2/2

Poster Session at GLC ASPET. Fifty-two posters were presented at the session from a wide variety of subfields of pharmacology. 1/2

Angela Lynch MSPH PhD DABT (toxicologist; nonclinical drug discovery/development consultant, TOXPLUS), Namhee Kim PhD (biostatistician, Rosalind Franklin Univ.), and Marsha Pierce PhD (science policy and advocacy expert, neuropharmacologist; Midwestern Univ.) 3/3

Career Development mentors included Anik Tuladhar PhD (industry postdoc fellow, AbbVie), Shana Augustin PhD (neuropharmacologist, Northwestern Univ.), Andy Vo PhD (computational toxicologist, AbbVie), Natasha Ferguson PhD, MS, MAT (medical writer, Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) 2/3

The Lunch and Learn events at ASPET-GLC offer great opportunities for professional development! This year we had a Career Development Workshop for trainees and a Pharmacology Educator Event for those who teach pharmacology to discuss best practices. 1/3