Yingke Xu and Xiangxue Xiao (both Community Health Sciences and Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) recently received Top Young Investigators Awards from the (ASBMR) for their work in Qing Wu鈥檚 lab within the 51吃瓜网万能科大 Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine. Xu was awarded $1,000, while Xiao received a $500 travel grant. These first-year graduate students were recognized at the ASBMR annual meeting in Denver in September. They also made presentations at the conference.
Their research with Wu focuses on the bone health of the U.S. population. The team examines mean bone mineral density trends among American adults as well as potential causes of the trends.
