Check out Dr. Stephanie Hurwitz's new review on mechanisms that regulate HSC homing and mobilization! journals.lww.com/co-hematolog...

Congratulations to Drs. Iqbal Hamza and former CIHD Student/Postdoc Training Program trainee Audrey Belot on their recent publication in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mark your calendars for the 2026 East-West Iron Club (EWIC) Meeting! October 22-23, 2026 in Orlando, FL. Details below! ewicmeeting.org

Congratulations to Sage Gehrer and Paul Sigala for their new preprint on the role of acyl carrier protein in malaria apicoplast biogenesis, which was funded in part by the CIHD P&F program! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41959251/

ISEH 55th Annual Scientific Meeting Call for Abstracts - Closes next Friday April 17th!

NEW CCEH Travel Award Opportunity – Due April 15, 2026. Learn more - cceh.io/funding/.

Our CIHD Rising Stars Symposium is happening right now! Join us 8:30AM-3PM in EHSEB 1730. If you can't make it in person, the Zoom link is below.

European Hematology Association (EHA) Congress June 11-14, 2026. In person and virtual attendance options. Early registration fee until May 4, 2026. ehaweb.org/connect-netw...

Check out Kade Loveridge and Paul Sigala's new review on iron metabolism in Plasmodium malaria parasites! journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

🚨🚨 New publication from Kevin Hicks and Kim Orth in PNAS featuring the CIHD Protein-Metabolite Interaction Core! Check it out below: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41779785/

BioIron will be hosting an upcoming webinar, “Iron in the Brain,” featuring James R. Connor, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Neurosurgery and Director of the GM Leader Family Laboratory at Penn State University College of Medicine! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Congratulations to Drs. Jodie Babitt (MGH) and Jan Christian (University of Utah), who were recently awarded a new R01 from NIDDK! Their grant is based on data generated from their 2023 CIHD P&F award.

Reminder: Type B P&F proposals are due March 16 at 5 PM MST! cceh.io/funding/pf-t...

Join us for the Rising Stars Symposium on March 23, 2026 8:30AM-3PM (in EHSEB 1730, or on Zoom (details below). Hear from our 6 talented CIHD Student/Postdoc Training Program trainees, esteemed CIHD faculty Drs. Aaron Petrey and Philip Gordts, and keynote speaker Dr. Ella Nemeth!

The CIHD Student/Postdoc Training Program will host a roundtable discussion of Ph.D. career pathways, featuring panelists from academia, industry, consulting, teaching, and more!

Check out IU-CCEH Director Dr. Reuben Kapur's recent publication in Leukemia! "Suppression of Rho-associated kinase 1 (ROCK1) promotes human hematopoietic stem cell expansion by attenuating mitochondrial fission." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40958034/

Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance (FARA) has several upcoming February 15 LOI deadlines - apply here! www.curefa.org/research/gra...

Fifteenth International Workshop On Molecular Aspects Of Myeloid Stem Cell Development & Leukemia - Join us in Cincinnati!! Abstract Deadline is March 1! www.myeloidmeeting.org/event/7aa0f1...

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend and present your findings at the Keystone Hematopoiesis Meeting in Keystone, Colorado February 23-26, 2026. The Poster abstract deadline is February 3rd, 2026. www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Announcing another round of funding applications for P&F Type B awards! Application deadline is March 16th, 2026 (5 PM MST). Learn more and apply here cceh.io/funding/.

We have extended the deadline for CIHD Student/Postdoc Exchange applications to November 30!

Congratulations to Drs. Erica Hastings and Paul Sigala on their recent publication in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Apply for the 2025 Chiesi Golden Ticket Funding Opportunity! Applications are due on October 15th, 2025. Learn more here - cihd.cores.utah.edu/general/2025....

Join us for the University of Utah Center for Iron & Heme Disorders Virtual Seminar Series 2025-2026! The series are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 9:00 am MT. Link - cihd.cores.utah.edu/cihd-seminars/. #virtualseminar

Dr. Tomas Ganz to present Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell M. Wintrobe Endowed Lectureship at the University of Utah.

Utah CIHD trainees Allison Fisher, Audrey Belot, and Brian Czaya represent at the BioIron Meeting in Montreal May 2025!

Congratulations to Utah CIHD members Jihyun Song and Josef Prchal on their publication "Alternatively spliced NFKB1 transcripts enriched in Andean Aymara modulate inflammation, HIF and hemoglobin"! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39971917/

Don't miss our next meeting from the CIHD Virtual Seminar Series 2024-2025 on Tuesday, April 15th at 9:00 am MT! “Biological and Genetic determinants of Red Blood Cell Metabolism: Do RBCs die of Ferroptosis?” presented by Angelo D’Alessandro, Ph.D.

If you missed our CCEH Multiomics Monday presentation from J Alan Maschek, Ph.D., check out our YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@CCEH_U24.

Utah CIHD Rising Stars in Hematology and Iron and Heme 2025

Join our next meeting from the CIHD Virtual Seminar Series 2024-2025 tomorrow, March 11th at 9:00 am MT! “Disentangling the function of Syndecan-2 in hematopoiesis” presented by Christina M. Termini, Ph.D.

The Utah CIHD is hosting a “Rising Stars in Hematology and Iron and Heme Disorders Symposium” next Monday, March 10th, 8:50 am - 3:00 pm MST. Our Keynote speaker is Dr. Britta Will from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. See the flyer for a schedule and more details.

If you missed our CCEH Multiomics Monday presentation from Kevin G Hicks, Ph.D., check out our YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rjn....

CIHD Sponsored Professional Training Luncheon on March 11th at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Hope to see you at the combined Red Cell Club East-West Iron Club Meeting in fall 2025!!

Watch for the Utah CIHD U54 Rising Stars in Iron, Heme and Hematology Symposium March 10th, 2025!

Congratulations to those Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students that have been selected for the Utah U54 CIHD Rising Stars Symposium and Core Training!

Check out the Professional Training Opportunity offered at the Yale CCEH 2025 - medicine.yale.edu/labmed/ycceh...

If you missed our first CCEH Multiomics Monday presentation from James Cox, Ph.D., check out our YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o7O....

Check out recordings of the CIHD seminars on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@UofUtahCIHD....

Watch for a talk from Dr. Ginzburg in the future.

If you didn't attend Kimberly O’Brien's, Ph.D. CIHD Virtual Seminar presentation, check out our YouTube channel and watch the recording at your convenience - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB-R....

Our next meeting from the CIHD Virtual Seminar Series 2024-2025 on Tuesday, January 14th at 9:00 am MT! “Determinants of Maternal-Fetal Iron Partitioning - New Approaches and Unresolved Questions” presented by Kimberly O’Brien, Ph.D. @NIDDKgov

CIHD has a new YouTube playlist - "Interviews with Giants In Iron". Included are Harry Dailey U Georgia, Nancy Andrews Boston Children's, Roland Lill the University of Marburg, Jerry Kaplan the University of Utah, and Tom Ganz UCLA. Check out these Giants in Iron to learn more!!