Congratulations to Jimena Giudice, Ph.D., a MHI member and Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, for the receipt of the 2020-2021 Jefferson-Pilot Fellowships in Academic Medicine Award from the UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Giudice received this award in recognition of her work, titled “Alternative Splicing, Membrane Trafficking and Epigenetics in Cell Biology and … Read more

Congratulations to Jiandong Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, & Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, both in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for the receipt of 2020 EIAs from the AHA. Drs. Liu & Qian feel honored and grateful to receive this award separately in the same year, particularly given the limited number of awardees each … Read more

Congratulations to the lab of Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for publishing article, titled “Down-regulation of Beclin1 promotes direct cardiac reprogramming”, in Science Translational Medicine. Their work is featured in the October 21, 2020 edition of Science Translational Medicine and can be read online now.

Congratulations to Jae Ho (Mike) Lee, an alumni graduate student in Dr. Griffith’s Lab, for having paper, titled “Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Diameter and Thickness Are Directly Related to Leaflet Fluttering: Results from a Combined Experimental and Computational Modeling Study” accepted for publication in the journal JTCVS Open, the open-access mirror of the Journal of Thoracic … Read more

        Dear MHI Colleagues: The UNC McAllister Heart Institute Animal Surgery Core has a new director! Dr. Haifeng Yin joined us recently from Maine Medical Center, where he honed his small animal surgical skills and developed new procedures. Please contact Dr. Yin directly to discuss core support of your research program. We … Read more

Congratulations to Jennifer Potts & Vincent Roche, undergraduate research assistants in Biomedical Engineering, NCSU/UNC, Dr. Cole’s Lab, for receiving NC State Undergraduate Research Awards for Fall, 2020.

Congratulations to Peyton Sandroni, a pharmacology graduate student, currently in Dr. Jensen’s Lab, for recently being selected as a trainee for the Integrative Vascular Biology T32 Training Program.       Peyton also has been chosen for the Certificate Program in Translational Medicine.

Congratulations to Stephanie Teeter, M.Ed., Research Technician & Lab Manager, and Sandra Stangeland-Molo, Ph.D. student, both in Biomedical Engineering, NCSU/UNC, Dr. Cole’s Lab, for completing IMPACTS Program, a selective state-wide public science communication training and outreach initiative.

Congratulations to Jean Marie Mwiza, a graduate research assistant in Dr. Bergmeier’s Lab, for recently receiving an F31 research fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI. Jean Marie’s fellowship provides ongoing stipend support, beginning January, 2021, for his project, titled “Determining the Platelet Signaling Pathway(s) Critical in Venous Thrombosis Pathogenesis”.

Congratulations to Sandra Stangeland-Molo, a second-year Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering, NCSU/UNC, who received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, currently in Dr. Cole’s Lab, for recently being selected for the Integrative Vascular Biology T32 Training Program.