UC Davis school and employees acquired 4 of The Sacramento Enterprise Journal’s 40 Beneath 40 awards this 12 months. The annual program acknowledges native professionals beneath the age of 40 who’re excelling of their careers and contributing to the neighborhood.
Debapriya (Priya) Chakraborty is analysis school on the Electrical Car Analysis Middle. The middle is a part of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Research. She is the writer of quite a few extremely cited research. Her analysis focuses on the influence of insurance policies to encourage electrical car adoption and the position of market-based methods in maximizing their environmental advantages.
Bethany Cummings is an affiliate professor within the UC Davis Well being Division of Surgical procedure. Her laboratory appears at modifications within the physique associated to kind 2 diabetes. She and her workforce have made vital contributions to understanding how bariatric surgical procedure, a sort of weight-loss surgical procedure, improves glucose regulation for sufferers with kind 2 diabetes. This work has led her group to concentrate on particular cells within the pancreas and the intestine microbiome for potential new remedies for kind 2 diabetes.
Eric Johnson is the division follow supervisor within the UC Davis Well being Ache Drugs Clinic. He leads the clinic’s multidisciplinary workforce of internists, psychologists, social employees, acupuncturists, ache pharmacists, anesthesiologists and bodily therapists. The workforce presents compassionate, modern remedies for persistent ache. He’s additionally an ultra-long-distance runner who helps inspire and encourage others by sharing his tales of overcoming challenges.
David Olson is an affiliate professor within the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Drugs. He acquired the award for his firm, Delix Therapeutics. The startup is growing non-hallucinogenic variations of psychedelic compounds to deal with psychiatric and neurological ailments. Delix has raised over $100 million in funding to deliver the UC Davis know-how to the clinic.
A ceremony to announce the winners was held Nov. 10 at The Sophia in Midtown Sacramento. All the checklist of award winners will be discovered on The Sacramento Enterprise Journal web site.
