Each Thursday, we randomly feature a medical center employee.
This week, we learn more about Diane Costanzo-Garvey, a researcher in the Eppley Institute.
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| Diane Costanzo-Garvey |
- Name: Diane Costanzo-Garvey
- Hometown: Omaha
- Number of years at UNMC: 12
What is your best memory from your time at UNMC?
My best memory so far has been to finally see some of my work published in a journal. It took six years to collect enough data, and to see it in print, and know I participated in getting it there, meant a lot to me.
Our four brand values are leadership, commitment to excellence, working together and being a trusted resource. Pick one and tell us a time you witnessed it embodied at UNMC.
Working together is something I have witnessed several times in research. We are working on a knockout mouse model that has produced quite an extensive phenotype, which has taken us in many different areas of research of which we are not familiar. The contacts and resources we have at this university have proven to be very useful in helping us understand our model, and pursue further research on it.
List three things people may not know about you.
- I work at Mulhalls Nursery in the spring for “fun.”
- I can identify more than 50 different types of seasonal annual plants.
- I once rescued a dog from being euthanized by giving her to a new home.
This is a well-deserved tribute to a terrific researcher. In my lab's collaborative interactions with Diane, she is always professional, well-read, thoughtful and thorough. As she says, it is fun to have a project come to fruition, as has happened in the past few years with the KSR knockout mice. The paper that she refers to is a tour de force and major contribution to the fields of obesity and type 2 diabetes research. Congratulations!