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Congratulations to the Lab of William Polacheck, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Member, Cell Biology and Physiology Curriculum, UNC Medicine; Member, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, for publishing vascular malformation-on-chip model for drug screening in Science Advances.         For this manuscript, titled “Microphysiological...

  Congratulations to Margeaux Wetendorf-Marbrey, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Lab of Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, for accepting an offer from Duke University for a faculty position. Dr. Wetendorf-Marbrey is heading off to do great things and will be missed!

Congratulations to the Lab of Brian C. Jensen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, in collaboration with Kelsey Fisher-Wellman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, and Jessica M. Ellis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, both with Eastern Carolina University (ECU), for the first renewal of R01 grant, entitled...

Congratulations to Brian C. Jensen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, for having his research on kinase inhibitor cardiotoxicity featured in UNC Health | UNC School of Medicine’s Newsroom. Dr. Jensen is a cardiologist and physician-scientist in the UNC Department of Medicine and is working in both the lab...

Congratulations to Paul A. Dayton, Ph.D., William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UNC & NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Clinical Research, Breast Cancer, in collaboration with Gianmarco Pinton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, NC & NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, along with collaborators from the SOM...

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....

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,...

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...