The University of New England is proud to announce that Karen L. Houseknecht, Ph.D., associate provost for Research and Scholarship and professor of pharmacology within the College of Osteopathic Medicine, will spend part of the 2022-2023 academic year in Spain as a Fulbright Senior Scholar.
The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, created to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Houseknecht will serve as a professor-in-residence at the Department of Pharmacology within the College of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) from February to May 2023. While there, she will be engaged in teaching pharmacology with host Manuela Garcia Lopez, M.D., Ph.D., director of UAM’s Teofilo Hernando Institute for Drug Discovery — as well as research and collaboration with additional faculty — on her proposal “Integrating Mechanisms Regulating Metabolism and Dementia: A Transdisciplinary Approach.”