Elizabeth Abshire has received a 2017-2018 Endowment for the Development of Graduate Education (EDGE) Award from the Endowment for the Basic Sciences (EBS) in the Medical School

Elizabeth is a member of the Trievel and Goldstrohm laboratories and is studying Nocturnin, a ribonuclease that has been implicated in the regulation of lipid metabolism, skeletal development, adipogenesis, and obesity in mammals.