Congratulations to Brian Velasco, BA, Senior Research Technician/Laboratory Manager, and Kennita Johnson, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, both in Dr. Dayton’s Lab, for receiving the Dean’s Performance Award and the Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Award, respectively, for 2020.       Paul Dayton, Ph.D, Professor and Principical Investigator, expresses that these are well-deserved awards and that … Continued

Congratulations to Silvio Antoniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and member of the UNC Blood Research Center, in collaboration with James C. Bonner, Ph.D. (NCSU), for the receipt of grant from NC TraCS. Their $50k grant, titled “Role of PAR-2 in nanoparticle modulation of allergic lung disease”, was recently funded by … Continued

Congratulations to Karen L. Mohlke, Ph.D., Professor, Genetics, Associate Chair For Research, Oliver Smithies Investigator, for the receipt of an Award For Excellence in Basic Science Mentoring from the UNC School of Medicine.  

Congratulations to Paul Dayton, Ph.D, Professor, BME Interim Chair, for the receipt of the 2020 BME Faculty Service Award from the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering.  

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, for publishing papers, titled “Comprehensive Multi-omics Analysis Reveals Mitochondrial Stress as a Central Biological Hub for Spaceflight Impact” and “Circulating miRNA Spaceflight Signature Reveals Targets for Countermeasure Development” in the journals Cell and Cell Reports, as co-author. Dr. Schisler’s papers are both featured on … Continued

The MHI Animal Surgery Core Lab is now the MHI Cardiovascular Physiology and Phenotyping Core.  

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Cell Biology & Physiology, Richard Cheney, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology & Physiology, Frank Conlon, Ph.D., Professor, Biology and Genetics, James Faber, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology & Physiology & Karen L. Mohlke, Ph.D., Professor, Genetics, Associate Chair For … Continued

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with the lab of David Alan Kass, M.D., Abraham and Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine (JHU), for publishing paper, titled “CHIP phosphorylation by protein kinase G enhances protein quality control and attenuates cardiac ischemic injury”, in Nature Communications. This … Continued

Congratulations to the lab of James Faber, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology & Physiology, for publishing paper, titled “Decreased inspired oxygen stimulates de novo formation of coronary collaterals in adult heart”, in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. Their paper identifies that in a mouse strain lacking native coronary collaterals, hypoxia stimulates de novo formation … Continued