Ming Zhang, a graduate student in the laboratory of Ronald Tuma in the Center for Substance Abuse Research and the Department of Physiology at the School of Medicine,

received one of four top awards for graduate student presentations at the 17th Annual Symposium on the Cannabinoids in St. Sauveur, Canada. The titles of his two presentations were “Modulating the Balance Between CB1 and CB2 Receptors Activation Can Protect the Brain from Ischemic Damage” and “CB2 Agonists Affect T Cell Function in EAE.” EAE is Experimental Allergic Encephalitis, a mouse model for multiple sclerosis.