PittPharmacy graduate student Minlu Hu, BS was selected as one of five New Investigator Award recipients for the HIV Research for Prevention 2014: AIDS Vaccine, Microbicide and ARV-based Prevention Science (HIV R4P), the first global scientific conference focused exclusively on HIV prevention research, held on October 28 - 31 in Cape Town, South Africa. Her presentation was entitled Expression, Activity, and Regulation of Phosphorylating Enzymes in Genital and Colorectal Tissues and Immune Cells. New Investigator Awards are presented to five outstanding early-career investigators presenting top-rated work at the meeting. These awards are given to graduate students and fellow or junior faculty within the first three years of a faculty appointment with high-scoring abstracts that were accepted for oral presentations. The New Investigator Award recipients are Siriwat Akapirat of the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (Thailand); Jinal Bhiman of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); Elizabeth Byrne of Harvard University (US); Minlu Hu of Magee-Women's Research Institute/University of Pittsburgh (US); and Luca Schifanella of the National Institute of Health, National Cancer Institute (US). Hu is a PhD candidate in the pharmaceutics track at the School of Pharmacy. Associate Professor Lisa C. Rohan, PhD is her primary advisor.
