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Congratulations to Gregory Farber, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Qian’s Lab, for recently receiving a 2021 postdoctoral fellowship from AHA.

Congratulations to Mariah Stewart, a pharmacology graduate student in Dr. Schisler’s Lab, for recently receiving Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF. Her fellowship provides stipend support to study how post-translational modifications of chaperones and co-chaperones dictate protein-protein interactions and heat tolerance in response to thermal stress.

Congratulations to Anna Wheless, a biochemistry and biophysics graduate student, who received her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology with a concentration in Microbiology from the University of Houston–Downtown, a member of Dr. Neher’s lab since April, 2020, studying the inhibition of LPL by ANGPTL4, for recently receiving Graduate Research...

Congratulations to Jiandong Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for the receipt of 2020-2021 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Award. This award is annually made to a few of the most promising young tenured faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine.

Congratulations to Alokkumar Pathak, Research Instructor in the Stouffer Lab, and Rick Stouffer, M.D., Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology; Co-Director, McAllister Heart Institute; Physician in Chief, UNC Heart & Vascular Service Line, for publishing manuscript, titled “Expression of Cyr61 in ApoE-/- mice...

Congratulations to Sarah M. Brotman, a graduate student in Dr. Mohlke’s Lab, for recently receiving an NRSA F31 fellowship from NIH’s NHLBI.  

Congratulations to Nikea Pittman, a SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellow in UNC Biochemistry & Biophysics, who received her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Florida, currently in Dr. Neher’s Lab, for recently being appointed to the Executive Board of the Black Microbiologists Association.  

Congratulations to Jiandong Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Jensen’s Lab, for publishing paper, titled “Cardiac alpha-1A adrenergic receptors: emerging protective roles in cardiovascular diseases”, in the journal AJP-HEART.  

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and her team for publishing an invited long review article, titled “Direct cell reprogramming: approaches, mechanisms and progress”, in the prestigious Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. Their work is featured in the February 22, 2021 issue of...

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for the receipt of EIA R35 grant from NIH’s NHLBI. The grant is to support the Qian Lab’s continued effort in further developing and refining reprogramming approaches to repair injured hearts. It is a 7-year grant for...