Congratulations to the McAllister Heart Institute for the receipt of Undergraduate Summer Program grant from AHA. The grant proposal was spearheaded by Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, and prepared under the leadership of research associate, Rebekah Sanchez-Hodge, in collaboration with past and present undergraduates in Dr. Schisler’s lab and MHI contracts … Read more

Congratulations to Juliane Nguyen, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Member of McAllister Heart Institute, Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, for the receipt of R01 grant from the NIH’s NHLBI. The 1.9M grant provides funds to develop a living drug depot to treat heart attacks.  Read More…

Congratulations to the Lab of Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for publishing article, titled “Cross-lineage potential of Ascl1 uncovered by comparing diverse reprogramming regulatomes”, in the journal Cell Stem Cell. The work from the Qian Lab’s team was co-first-authored by postdoctoral fellow, Haofei Wang, and M.D./Ph.D. student, Benjamin Keepers. … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Jimena Giudice, Ph.D., a MHI member and Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, for publishing paper, titled “Mechanical stretching induces global transcriptional and posttranscriptional transitions and changes in SR proteins in muscle cells.”, in the journal Communications Biology. The work from the Giudice Lab’s team was mainly driven … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, for publishing a new, high-impact review article, titled “The Ebb and Flow of Cardiac Lymphatics: A Tidal Wave of New Discoveries”, in the APS Physiological Reviews.         The work from the Caron Lab’s team … Read more

Congratulations to Esteban Oyarzabal, former Ph.D. student, BBSP-Neurobiology, and IVB trainee in the Lab of Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Ph.D., Director, Center for Animal MRI; Associate Director, Biomedical Research Imaging Center; Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering, for publishing Ph.D. thesis, titled “Chemogenetic stimulation of tonic locus coeruleus activity strengthens the default mode network”, … Read more

Congratulations to Ziqing Liu, Ph.D., a research assistant in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, for accepting an offer from the Medical College of Wisconsin for an assistant professor position. Dr. Liu will be joining the Department of Physiology at Medical College of Wisconsin. She will start her independent career in October, 2022!  

Congratulations to Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, in collaboration with Karl Shpargel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Genetics, for the receipt of R01 grant from the NIH’s NHLBI. The grant is titled “Function and regulation of chromatin remodeling complexes in cardiac development and disease”. The proposed studies will address the role of components … Read more

Congratulations to Keerthi S. Anand, a Ph.D. candidate and IVB trainee in the Gallippi Lab, for recently receiving a predoctoral fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI. The fellowship provides ongoing stipend support for his project, titled “High Framerate Plane-Wave Variance of Acceleration and Vector Flow Imaging for the Characterization of Atherosclerotic Plaque Morphology and Assessment of … Read more