Congratulations to the Lab of Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, and Yuchao Jiang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Genetics; Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for publishing paper, titled “Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Endothelial Cell Transcriptome Heterogeneity Under Homeostatic Laminar Flow”, in the journal ATVB. … Continued

Congratulations to Ana Cartaya, a pharmacology graduate student, and Halle Lutz, an undergraduate student, both in the Bahnson Research Group, for publishing article, titled “Delivery of Cinnamic Aldehyde Antioxidant Response Activating nanoParticles (ARAPas) for Vascular Applications”, in the journal Antioxidants. In this paper, Ms. Cartaya and Ms. Lutz developed a nanoformulation termed ARAPas capable of … Continued

Congratulations to Ana Cartaya, a pharmacology graduate student in the Bahnson Research Group, for recently receiving an F31 predoctoral fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI.   The fellowship provides ongoing stipend support for her project, titled “Selective delivery of superoxide dismutase and catalase for restenosis prevention”. During her fellowship, Ms. Cartaya will optimize nanoformulations and a … Continued

Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, a SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow in UNC Biological & Genome Sciences, who received her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, currently in Dr. Conlon’s Lab, for being elected to the national board of the SDB as the national trainee representative.

Congratulations to Melina Kibbe, M.D., Colin G. Thomas, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery; Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, for being appointed new Dean of UVA School of Medicine and Chief Health Affairs Officer for UVA Health. Dr. Kibbe is recognized as an accomplished leader and outstanding colleague, who has advocated for her … Continued

Congratulations to Sandra Stangeland-Molo, a second-year Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering (BME), 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 making BBA history as a Ph.D. candidate at UNC/NCSU Joint Department of BME. As a member of the BBA, Sandra is … Continued

Congratulations to Nathan Nelson-Maney, a M.D./Ph.D. graduate student in Dr. Caron’s Lab, for being admitted to the UNC IVB Training Program.

Congratulations to Shea Ricketts, a Ph.D. graduate student in Dr. Qian’s Lab, for being admitted to the UNC IVB Training Program.  

Congratulations to Jiandong Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Jensen’s Lab, for recently completing a highly successful postdoctoral fellowship. Jiandong will begin his clinical cardiology fellowship on July 1st, but his scientific acumen and warm collegiality will be greatly missed in the McAllister Heart Institute (MHI).