Author Archives: sherrich

Congratulations to Brian C. Jensen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, in collaboration with current and former MHI members, Silvio Antoniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, also a member of the UNC Blood Research Center, and Zhaokang Cheng, Ph.D., former postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Taylor’s...

Congratulations to Sophie Maiocchi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Bahnson Research Group, for recently receiving a K99/R00 pathway to independence award from the NIH’s NHLBI. Sophie’s project is titled “Targeted Drug Delivery for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease and Its Clinical Complications”.  

Congratulations to Kirsten Giesbrecht, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics, advised by and in the lab of Boyce Griffith, Ph.D., for recently receiving a predoctoral fellowship from AHA. Her project, which will be joint with the lab of Michael Bressan, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of...

Congratulations to the Lab of Boyce Griffith, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Physical Sciences & Biomedical Engineering, in collaboration with Thomas G. Caranasos, M.D., Director, Adult Cardiac Surgery; Assistant Professor of Surgery, John P. Vavalle, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, UNC Structural Heart...

Congratulations to Natalie Harris, a graduate student, and Natalie Nielsen, an alumni graduate student, both in Dr. Caron’s Lab, for publishing paper, titled “VE-Cadherin Is Required for Cardiac Lymphatic Maintenance and Signaling”, in the journal Circulation Research. The “Natalies'” much anticipated paper focuses on the novel role of VE-cadherin in...

Congratulations to Matthew J. Flick, Ph.D., Member of McAllister Heart Institute; Associate Professor of Pathology, UNC Blood Research Center, for recently being appointed to chair the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Plasminogen Activation and Extracellular Proteolysis. An overarching objective of this meeting is to bring together biomedical practice with the...

Congratulations to Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, for recently being appointed to the NHLBI Advisory Council of the NIH. The Council advises the NHLBI and its Director, Dr. Gary Gibbons, on research directions and funding priorities, and meets approximately...

Congratulations to the Lab of Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for publishing paper, titled “Cardiac proteomics reveals sex chromosome-dependent differences between males and females that arise prior to gonad formation”, in the journal Developmental Cell. The work from Dr. Conlon’s Lab team was co-led by postdoctoral...

Congratulations to Ju Youn Beak, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Jensen’s Lab, for publishing paper, titled “The nuclear receptor ROR-alpha preserves cardiomyocyte mitochondrial function by regulating caveolin-3-mediated mitophagy”, in the journal JBC. This is a fitting send-off for Ju Youn. After four successful years at UNC, she has decided to...