Author Archives: sherrich

Congratulations to Anh Luu, a graduate student, in Dr. Rau’s Lab, for recently receiving a predoctoral fellowship from AHA. Anh’s research studies the role of the metalloproteinase Adamts2 in cell-type crosstalk during heart failure and demonstrates that loss of Adamts2 in fibroblasts blunts the hypertrophic response of cardiomyocytes to beta...

Congratulations to the Lab of Christoph Rau, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Genetics, in collaboration with Brian Colwell Jensen, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine; Senior Physician Scientist and Deputy Director, McAllister Heart Institute, for publishing manuscript, titled “Genetic...

Congratulations to Rachel Szymanski, a graduate student, in Dr. Conlon’s Lab, for recently receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from AHA. Rachel’s research investigates the role of the CRL4 ubiquitin-ligase complex in embryonic heart development and shows that CRL4 is essential for early cardiomyocyte proliferation and survival, and its absence leads to...

Congratulations to the Lab of William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, for publishing article, titled “Endothelial-Smooth Muscle Microgauges for Modeling Pulmonary Arterial Vasoregulation” in a special issue of Lab On A...

Congratulations to Song Kim and Mason Dancausse, both undergraduate interns, in the Schisler Lab, for presenting at SSNCURCS at Elon University. Song and Mason both did an amazing job and represented The Schisler Lab very well!  

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, and Rebekah Sanchez-Hodge, Lab Manager/Research Associate in the Schisler Lab, for the receipt of 2026 Institutional Award for Undergraduate Student Training from the AHA. The grant will keep the McAllister Heart Institute (MHI) Summer Undergraduate Mentoring & Meaningful Experiences...

Congratulations to Kevin A. Friede, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Associate Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship; Associate Director for Research, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, in collaboration with the Lab of Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, M.D., Ph.D., FASN; Drs. Ronald & Katherine Falk Eminent Professor in Nephrology; Co-Director, University of North Carolina (UNC)...

The MHI Faculty Retreat was a resounding success again this year. The organizers would like to thank those who were able to attend. We are particularly grateful to the outstanding lineup of speakers who reminded us yet again of the great science carried out by members of the MHI and...