Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellows
These one-of-a-kind (United States), fast-track transition fellowships were developed uniquely
by the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, to support the careers of outstanding
postdoctoral fellows. Fellows accepted into these positions are annually selected
from a large pool of meritorious national and international applicants. The accomplishments
of past and present trainees, as shown below, stand testimony to this outstanding
program for high achieving postdoctoral fellows. View Current Postdoc to Faculty Job Openings
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Xi Cheng, ph.d.
Senior Data Scientist March 2022 - present Humana
Research Assistant Professor January 2021 - March 2022 University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow Aug 2017 - Jan 2021 University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- Outstanding Student Award (Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences Program), 2017
- Selected for Postdoc to Faculty award at the University of Toledo College of Medicine,
2017
- Selected for American Physiological Society’s APSselect Award, 2017
- Selected for New Investigator Award, American Physiological Society Physiological
Genomics Group, 2018
- Invited speaker as Physiological Genomics Group New Investigator Awardee at the Experimental
Biology meeting 2018
- Selected for oral presentation at Gull Lake Hypertension Conference, 2018
- Selected for APS Publications Star Reviewer, American Physiological Society, 2019
- Selected for HTN New Investigator Travel Award, AHA Council on Hypertension, 2020
- Post-doctoral Mentoring Leadership Award, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2020
- APS Publications Star Reviewer, American Physiological Society, 2021
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Seungyong lee, ph.d.
Assistant Professor June 2021-present College of Graduate Studies Tenure Track, Midwestern University
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow October 2020 - June 2021 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Toledo, College of
Medicine and Life Sciences
- Secured Tenure-track position at Midwestern University, Arizona
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Cameron mccarthy, ph.d.
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
August 2021 - Present Cardiovascular Translational Research Center Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy University of South Carolina
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow
June 2018 - July 2021 University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- 2019 Invited and joined the AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology Editorial Board.
- 2019 Third place winner of the 2019 APS-Cardiovascular Section Outstanding Postdoctoral
Trainee Award, Experimental Biology Meeting, Cardiovascular Young Investigator Section,
American Physiological Society, USA
- 2019 Recipient of the Council on Hypertension New Investigator Award
- AHA Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2018-2020
- 2019 Invited and joined the Hypertension Editorial Board
- 2020 Invited and joined the American Journal of Hypertension Editorial Board
- 2020 NIH/NHLBI Career Transition (K99-R00) Grant $109,840/year (PI) 2020-2025
- 2020 American Heart Association Career Development Award. Title of Project: Autophagy regulates Beta-hydroxybutyrate synthesis to prevent hypertension-associated
premature vascular aging. Approved funding level of $231,000.
- 2020 invited and joined the editorial board of Translation: The University of Toledo
Journal of Medical Sciences as Associate Editor
- 2020 Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) Council on Hypertension
- 2021 Invited and joined the editorial board of Vascular Physiology (specialty section
of Frontiers in Physiology) as Review Editor
- 2021 APS Cardiovascular Section Clinical Science Young Investigator Award Sponsored
by Portland Press
- 2021- Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina
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Beng san yeoh
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow January 2020 - present Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Toledo, College of
Medicine and Life Sciences
- Postdoctoral Fellowship from American Heart Association (4/1/21-3/31/2023)
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TAo yang, ph.d.
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track August 2021 - Present University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Dean's Postdoctoral to Faculty Transition Fellow July 2019 - July 2021 University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
- 2019 Recipient of the Council on Hypertension New Investigator Award
- 2019 Trainee Research Recognition Award, Physiological -Omics group, American Physiological
Society
- 2019 Biocodex Microbiota USA Foundation Research Grant $50,000 (PI)
- 2019 New Investigator Travel Award, American Heart Association
- 2019 Best of Specialty, American Heart Association
- 2020 Invited and joined the Hypertension Editorial Board
- 2021 American Heart Association Career Development Award. Title of Project: Autophagy regulates Beta-hydroxybutyrate synthesis to prevent
hypertension-associated premature vascular aging. Approved funding level of $231,000.
- 2021- Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo College of Medicine
& Life Sciences
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