Celebrating Hamid’s Success: MSTAR Program Completion and Poster Award! 🎓🏅

Hamid Koroni (left) presenting his award-winning poster alongside his summer mentor Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini at the 2025 MSTAR Consortium Meeting.

We are proud to announce that Hamid has successfully completed the highly competitive MSTAR (Medical Student Training in Aging Research) program. Capping off a summer of outstanding research and learning, Hamid was recognized with a Poster Award at the 2025 MSTAR Consortium Meeting! 👏🏻

This year’s meeting took place July 18–19 in San Antonio, bringing together participants and mentors from UT Health San Antonio, UT Health Houston, UTMB Health, and UT Southwestern. Hamid delivered both an oral and a poster presentation, sharing his research on ceramide-lowering therapy and its effects on metabolic health in aged male mice. His dedication, clarity, and passion were evident to all, earning him a well-deserved award.

The Palavicini Lab is incredibly proud of Hamid’s impact and success. Too bad we only had them for 8 weeks, which was enough to come up with a significant discovery about how ceramide-lowering therapy improves glucose tolerance!

Congratulations on representing our lab with excellence Hamid!