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Congratulations to Wei Shi, Ph.D., alumnus postdoctoral fellow, formerly in the Conlon Lab, in collaboration with Mason Sweat, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, in the Lab of William Pu, Ph.D. (Boston Children’s Hospital), for submitting preprint, titled “CHD4 Interacts with TBX5 to Maintain the Gene Regulatory Network of Postnatal Atrial Cardiomyocytes” to...

Congratulations to the Lab of Boyce Griffith, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering; Adjunct Professor, Department of Applied Physical Sciences; Associate Chair for Research, Department of Mathematics; Member, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Computational Medicine Program, and McAllister Heart Institute, for the receipt of R03 grant from...

Congratulations to Caterina M. Gallippi, Ph.D., Professor, Joint University of North Carolina (UNC)/North Carolina State University (NCSU) Department of Biomedical Engineering; Affiliated Professor, NCSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Adjunct Professor, UNC Department of Radiology, for being named William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Joint Department of...

Congratulations to Dr. Pauline Bougaran, a postdoctoral researcher, in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, for recently receiving a presentation award at the Vascular Cell Biology Gordon Research Seminar in Newry, Maine. Dr. Bougaran’s recent presentation talk is titled “SUN2 regulation of endothelial cell behaviors via long-range cell-matrix interactions”.  

Congratulations to the Lab of Michael Bressan, Ph.D., an MHI member and Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, for the receipt of R01 grant, entitled “’Outside-in’ Model of Cardiac Pacemaking: Extracellular Mediated Automaticity”, from NIH’s NHLBI. The proposed studies focus on the ionic mechanisms of cardiac pacemaker cell synchronization.

Congratulations to Kayla Mason, Cell Biology and Physiology graduate student, in The Conlon Lab, for recently receiving first place in the poster presentation competition at the 2025 National RNA Society Annual Meeting. Kayla’s winning poster is titled “Post-transcriptional Regulation of Cardiac Sex Differences by DDX3X.

Congratulations to Kayla Mason, Cell Biology and Physiology graduate student, in The Conlon Lab, for recently receiving the 2025 Marzluff RNA Fellowship Award from the UNC RNA Discovery Center. Kayla is the recipient of this fellowship award, a 1-year grant, which provides stipend support for her studies of the role...

Congratulations to 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 recently receiving tenure and promotion, starting June 4, 2025, to Associate Professor in UNC’s Biomedical Engineering-Joint Department.

Congratulations to Gabrielle M. Gentile, B.Sc., a Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) graduate student in The Giudice Lab, for successfully defending Ph.D. thesis and for publishing article, titled “Alternative splicing of the Snap23 microexon is regulated by MBNL, QKI, and RBFOX2 in a tissue-specific manner and is altered in striated...