Nathaniel Lartey Lartey, MsC

I am a final year PhD candidate in the Schnoor Lab of the Department of Molecular Biomedicine, CINVESTAV-IPN. I am investigating the role of the actin-binding protein cortactin in the onset and development of sepsis. Cortactin has been shown to support the transmigration of neutrophils across the endothelial barrier. Since sepsis-induced multi-organ damage is characterized by excessive neutrophil influx into peripheral organs such as the lung, we hypothesize that endothelial cortactin would regulate sepsis severity by controlling the recruitment of neutrophils into organs.

• The Histochemical Society Travel Award in Imaging and Histochemistry (HCS-TA-IHC) for a research stay at the University of Michigan Medical School. Sep-Dec 2021. 
• SLB (Society for Leukocyte Biology) Presidential Student Finalist Merit Award. August 2021. 
• The Histochemical Society (HCS) Trainee Scholar Award for presenting at the Virtual Mexican Immunology Conference, Monterrey-Mexico. April, 2021. 
• DAAD Short-Term Research Grant for Research at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany. February 2021. 
• Ralph D. Lillie’s Merit Award by the Histochemical Society (HCS). HCS Fall Webinar Series. November, 2020. 
• PISA 2020 International Trainee Scholar Award, American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP). November 2020. 
• SLB (Society for Leukocyte Biology) Video Abstract Merit Finalist Award, SLB 2020 Virtual Meeting. October 2020. 
• Travel Award, The Histochemical Society trainee travel award for Experimental Biology 2020. 
• Travel Award, American Association of Immunologists (AAI) travel award for presenting at the Mucosal Immunology Symposium LAMIG/SMI 2019 September, 2019.