Tzima lab news

Graduate student Caitlin Collins awarded Fellner Fellowship

May 2012 - Caitlin Collins will receive the Dr. Susan Fellner Physiology Graduate Student Research Fellowship (Fellner Fellowship) for 2012-2013.

Graduate student Maggie McCormick awarded UNC Graduate School fellowship

April 2012 - Maggie McCormick will receive a Dissertation Completion Fellowship and join the Royster Society of Fellows.

Tzima lab grad student Dan Sweet publishes first author paper in “Blood”

Nov. 28, 2011 - Tzima lab publication in the journal "Blood" identifies the protein Shc as central player in the formation of new blood vessels

Department graduate students Sarah Bortvedt and Maggie McCormick awarded 2012 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Awards

October 2011 - Congratulations to physiology graduate students Sarah Bortvedt and Maggie McCormick, 2012 recipients of UNC's Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award

Graduate student Maggie McCormick awarded NC TraCS funding

September 2011 - Maggie McCormick funded by a pilot grant from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute

Graduate student Maggie McCormick publishes first-author paper

January 2011 - Paper by McCormick and colleagues appears in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.

McCormick awarded predoctoral fellowship from American Heart Association

June 2010 - McCormick's project "PECAM-1 regulation of eNOS activation" will be supported by a two-year fellowship.

Tzima lab student Daniel Sweet awarded American Heart Association fellowship

July 2009 - AHA predoctoral fellowship will provide two years of support for Dan's project in the Tzima lab.

Two department students receive Integrative Vascular Biology Training Program training grants

June 2009 - Maggie McCormick and Samantha Strickland are accepted into UNC's Integrative Vascular Biology Training Program.

Tzima lab postdoctoral fellow, Zhongming Chen, PhD, recieves American Heart Association Fellowship

May 2008 - Zhongming Chen, PhD, will receive two years of support from the AHA for his project in the Tzima lab.

Tzima named 2007 Ellison Scholar

The Ellison Foundation New Scholars award supports exceptional young faculty who are nominated by U.S. medical institutions and universities for their outstanding promise in aging research.