Clif Ray (primary advisor: Paul Yates) won the best paper award at the 2017 International Federation for Adipose Therapeutics and Science (IFATS) Conference for his talk, entitled: "A lineage-tracing mouse model reveals Myh11 smooth muscle cells and pericytes are mesenchymal stem cells" with co-authors Paromita Dey, Scott A. Seaman, Jennifer D. Mansour, Anthony C. Bruce, Shayn M. Peirce, Bijan K. Dey, Paul A. Yates.