Emily Mackey, a DVM/PhD student completing her dissertation with Dr. Adam Moeser, was selected as one of the recipients of the 2017 Elizabeth Young New Investigator Awards.
This prestigious $1,000 award is given by the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) for work in translational science.
“I am very excited,” Mackey says. “There were only a few awards given, and it’s a great honor to be recognized for all the hard work!”
Mackey is a combined DVM/PhD student in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Program at North Carolina State University, and is completing her dissertation in CVM’s Gastrointestinal Stress Biology Laboratory with Dr. Adam Moeser. Mackey received her bachelor’s in preveterinary and animal biosciences at the University of Delaware, where she performed research involving nutritional immunology in dairy cattle.
Mackey’s dissertation work involves evaluating the sexual dimorphism of mast cells and the influence of this on the difference in disease predominance between the sexes. Mackey will present her paper, “Dysfunctional Androgen Receptor Feminizes the Mast Cell Phenotype” at the OSSD Annual Meeting in May.