Author Archives: sherrich

Congratulations to Jean Marie Mwiza, a graduate research assistant in Dr. Bergmeier’s Lab, for recently receiving an F31 research fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI. Jean Marie’s fellowship provides ongoing stipend support, beginning January, 2021, for his project, titled “Determining the Platelet Signaling Pathway(s) Critical in Venous Thrombosis Pathogenesis”.

Congratulations to Sandra Stangeland-Molo, a second-year Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering, NCSU/UNC, who received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, currently in Dr. Cole’s Lab, for recently being selected for the Integrative Vascular Biology T32 Training Program.  

Congratulations to Danielle Berlin, a cell biology and physiology graduate student in the Bautch Lab, in collaboration with Allison Marvin, postbac, Katy Davis, former undergrad, and Erich Kushner, former postdoc, all associated with the Bautch Lab, for publishing paper, titled “Excess centrosomes disrupt vascular lumenization and endothelial cell adherens junctions”,...

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 Nigel Mackman, Ph.D. & Brandi Reeves, M.D. (UNC Blood Research Center) and Brian Colwell Jensen, M.D. (UNC McAllister Heart Institute), for...

Congratulations to Nick Buglak, a toxicology and environmental medicine Ph.D. student in the Bahnson Research Group, for publishing paper, titled “A Rat Carotid Artery Pressure-Controlled Segmental Balloon Injury with Periadventitial Therapeutic Application”, in JoVE. Nick’s methods paper details the rat carotid pressure-controlled segmental balloon injury, a surgical procedure used in...

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, for the receipt of participation in NASA’s STAR-21 Pilot Cohort Program. The program, which begins at NASA’s Ames Research Center in 2021, is to assist researchers on preparing flight experiments and to learn from NASA and external partners on...

Congratulations to Christoph Rau, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Genetics, for the receipt of R00 grant from NIH’s NHLBI. His grant, titled “Discovery of Novel Epigenetic Regulators of Heart Failure in a Panel of Mice” will integrate systems biology, epigenetics and molecular analyses to lead to deeper understandings of the genetic pathways,...

Congratulations to Joan M. Taylor, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology, in collaboration with Elena V. Batrakova, Ph.D. (UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy), for the receipt of grant from NCTraCS. Their grant, titled “Pre-Clinical Evaluation of a Novel Therapeutic Target for Parkinson’s Disease” was chosen for...

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, In Collaboration With Pamela Robey, Ph.D. (NIH), for moderating ISSCR’s global networking weekly meeting, titled “Stem Cell Research Approaches To COVID-19”.       Dr. Qian joins Dr. Robey to co-chair this meeting that is a part...

Congratulations to Alexandra Mercel, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Kibbe’s Lab, for having paper, titled “A comparative study of a pre-clinical survival model of smoke inhalation injury in mice and rats” accepted on July 5, 2020 for publication in the journal AJP-LUNG.