Vanessa Osman, a pharmacology PhD student in the Hemmings lab, is the recipient of a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institutes of Health for her study of volatile anesthetics.
"Volatile anesthetics such as isoflurane are staples of modern medicine," writes Osman,"but despite their widespread clinical use their precise cellular and molecular mechanisms of action remain unclear.
In some patients, volatile anesthetics can cause the potentially fatal...
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