Li Qian, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, will serve as the associate director of the McAllister Heart Institute (MHI), a role that will allow her to work closely with Victoria Bautch, PhD, and Rick Stouffer, MD, co-directors of MHI, to support the basic cardiovascular and translational research efforts of the institute. Read … Read more

Conlon Lab and former post doc Chris Slagel, in collaboration with Ivan Moskowitz’s lab (University of Chicago), have a new publication in PNAS demonstrating that cardiac signaling is required for the initiation of lung formation in air breathing vertebrates: Evolutionarily conserved Tbx5–Wnt2/2b pathway orchestrates cardiopulmonary development.

Boyce Griffith, PhD, Associate Professor of Mathematics, member of the McAllister Heart Institute, and Adjunct Faculty in the Departments of Applied Physical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, has received a $2.8-million award from the National Institutes of Health for a new 5-year project, Multiscale Modeling of Clotting Risk in Atrial Fibrillation. Read more here.

Zhou Yang, postdoc in Qian Lab, was selected to receive the Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Two UNC scientists, Jian Liu, Distinguished Professor in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Division of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry and Rafal Pawlinski, Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Member of McAllister Heart Institute, have been awarded a 1.6-million, four-year grant from the NIH-NHLBI to investigate the potential therapeutic effect … Read more

Raju Khatri, PhD, DABT, a postdoctoral fellow in Craig Lee’s laboratory has been awarded a 2-year AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “Predicting Maternal Changes in Antihypertensive Drug Metabolism and Exposure During Pregnancy.”

Bergmeier Lab has a new publication in Blood: Functional redundancy between RAP1 isoforms in murine platelet production and function. This work demonstrates a crucial role for the small GTPase RAP1 in platelet production and function. Using mice deficient in one or both RAP1 isoforms, RAP1A and RAP1B, we were able to demonstrate that (1) megakaryocytes … Read more

Silvio Antoniak, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Member of the McAllister Heart Institute, has been awarded a $1.9-million, five-year grant from the NIH-NHLBI to investigate the potential therapeutic approach in inhibiting the coagulation factor Xa or PAR2 in viral myocarditis and H1N1 influenza A virus infection. The project … Read more

Griffith Lab has received $2.78M funding from the National Institutes of Health for a new 5-year project: Multiscale Modeling of Clotting Risk in Atrial Fibrillation. This is a multi-institutional project involving UNC, Duke, and the University of Utah. UNC co-investigators include Dr. John Vavalle from the Division of Cardiology.

Li Qian, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology, member of the McAllister Heart Institute, has received the 2018 Transformational Project Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) with 3 years funding in the amount of $300,000 to support Qian Lab’s continued effort in using reprogramming approaches to mend broken hearts. Dr. Qian’s work in cardiac reprogramming … Read more