Maria Pacheco is selected for USC’s Graduate Student Government Professional Development Grant in February of 2025.

Amy Merrill gives an invited presentation at the 5th Fusion Conference on Growth Factors in Regeneration and Regenerative Medicine in February of 2025 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Amy Merrill is awarded NIDCR’s R35 SOAR Award to study mechanisms that coordinate development, assembly, and maintenance of the craniofacial skeleton as multi-tissue system. (September, 2024)

Arshia Bhojwani was selected to give a presentation at the 47th Annual Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology meeting in Kansas City, MO in September of 2024 and won an award for best presentation by a graduate student.

Audrey Nickle wins a AAA-sponsored poster presentation award at the 47th Annual Society for Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology meeting in Kansas City, MO in September of 2024.

Amy is appointed to serve as Acting Associate Dean of Research, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC in August 2024.

Amy Merrill and Gage Crump are awarded a multi-PI R01 to study the role of LGRs in jaw development in July of 2024.

Amy gave an invited presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration (Barcelona, Spain in May 2024).

Audrey Nickle was elected by her peers as the next chair of the Gordon Research Seminar on Fibroblast Growth Factors in Development and Disease.

Graduate student Audrey Nickle was presented with the best graduate student speaker award at the 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Fibroblast Growth Factor Signaling in Development and Disease, which was sponsored by Developmental Dynamics.