Lab News

July 24, 2023

Congratulations to our undergraduate research student Jacqueline Vargas Ulloa on receiving two prestigious awards!

January 20, 2022

Our manuscript describing the anticancer effects in triple-negative breast cancer cells of a compound from peanut was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Congratulations to the co-authors Sepideh Mohammadhosseinpour (First Author), Linh-Chi Ho, Lingling Fang, Dr. Jay Xu, and Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolivar.

December 9, 2021

Dr. Medina-Bolivar was inducted into the Arkansas Research Alliance in a ceremony held at the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion.

November 9, 2021

Our manuscript describing the antioxidant properties of peanut extracts was published in Molecules. Congratulations to the co-authors Gaurav Gajurel (First Author), Rokib Hasan, and Dr. Fabricio Medina-Bolivar.

November 7, 2021

Congratulations to Sepideh Mohammadhosseinpour, Linh-Chi Ho and Alexx Weaver on receiving the Cellular Biology and Biochemistry Award for their poster presentation at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference.

June 25, 2021

Congratulations to Sepideh Mohammadhosseinpour on receiving the 1st Place Graduate Poster Award at the 10th Annual and 1st Virtual ACMAP Conference.

June 25, 2021

Congratulations to Izzeldin Ahmed on receiving the 2nd Place Undergraduate Poster Award at the 10th Annual and 1st Virtual ACMAP Conference.

June 25, 2021

Congratulations to Rokib Hasan on receiving the First Place Oral Presentation Award at the 10th Annual and 1st Virtual ACMAP Conference.

April 22, 2021

Congratulations to Linh-Chi Ho on receiving the First Place Undergraduate Oral Presentation Award from the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Create@AState.

April 22, 2021

Congratulations to Sepideh Mohammadhosseinpour on receiving the First Place Graduate Poster Award from the College of Sciences and Mathematics at Create@AState.

April 6, 2021

Dr. Medina-Bolivar was selected as Fellow for the Arkansas Research Alliance.

August 4, 2020

Medina-Bolivar Receives Technology Patent on “Stilbenoid prenyltransferases from plants.”

May 19, 2020

Virtual Accelerator Puts Early-Stage Companies on Path to SBIR/STTR Success

January 5, 2018

Our paper describing the first plant stilbenoid-specific prenyltransferases got published in the prestigious Journal of Biological Chemistry!

December 10, 2017

Enjoying the Christmas party with members of the Medina-Bolivar research team.

December 2, 2017

Our review chapter just got published!

June 23, 2017

Dr. Medina-Bolivar was recognized at the ACMAP conference in Clemson for his previous service as President and Conference Chair.

April 22, 2017

Congratulations to Abbas on his 1st Place Graduate Student Award for his poster presentation at Create@State.

April 21, 2017

Parker discusses his research poster at Create@State.

April 21, 2017

Mohammad presents his research poster at Create@State.

April 7, 2017

Christine presents her poster at NCUR in Memphis.

March 21, 2017

Third U.S. Patent issued from our research!

January 31, 2017

Dr. Medina-Bolivar elected Research Professor of the Month!

January 29, 2017

Dr. Medina-Bolivar explains his research in this TEDx talk “Peanut and Piano: How Great Things Can Result from a Little Stress”.

December 11, 2016

Proud of my student Tianhong on completing his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biosciences!

March 6, 2016

Dr. Medina-Bolivar performed at Doctors in Concert, a fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.