Author Archives: sherrich

Congratulations to the Lab of Juliane Nguyen, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Member of McAllister Heart Institute, Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, for publishing paper, titled “Delivering more for less: nanosized, minimal-carrier and pharmacoactive drug delivery systems”, in the journal ADDR. The work from Dr. Nguyen’s...

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 the receipt of R35 MIRA grant from the NIH. The grant, titled, “Integrative Approaches for the Fluidic Microenvironment”, is...

Congratulations to Silvio Antoniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and member of the UNC Blood Research Center and UNC McAllister Heart Institute, in collaboration with James C. Bonner, Ph.D. (NCSU), for the receipt of R01 grant from the NIH’s NIEHS.  

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for recently being appointed a member of the AHA’s HBCU Scholar Mentor Program. AHA just launched the HBCU program in North Carolina this year, and Dr. Qian will be mentoring one of two North Carolina Central University...

Congratulations to the Lab of Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for the receipt of R01 grant from the NIH’s NHLBI. The grant, titled, “Mechanism and Function of Cardiac Transcriptional Repression Networks”, will investigate the mechanisms of the Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase (NuRD) complex in heart development...

Congratulations to the Lab of Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, and Yuchao Jiang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Genetics; Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for publishing paper, titled “Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Endothelial Cell Transcriptome Heterogeneity Under Homeostatic Laminar...

Congratulations to Ana Cartaya, a pharmacology graduate student, and Halle Lutz, an undergraduate student, both in the Bahnson Research Group, for publishing article, titled “Delivery of Cinnamic Aldehyde Antioxidant Response Activating nanoParticles (ARAPas) for Vascular Applications”, in the journal Antioxidants. In this paper, Ms. Cartaya and Ms. Lutz developed a...

Congratulations to Ana Cartaya, a pharmacology graduate student in the Bahnson Research Group, for recently receiving an F31 predoctoral fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI.   The fellowship provides ongoing stipend support for her project, titled “Selective delivery of superoxide dismutase and catalase for restenosis prevention”. During her fellowship, Ms. Cartaya...

Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, a SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow in UNC Biological & Genome Sciences, who received her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, currently in Dr. Conlon’s Lab, for being elected to the national board of the SDB as the national trainee representative.