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Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, for the receipt of 2019 Phillip & Ruth Hettleman Prize For Artistic & Scholarly Achievement.  The annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to four associate professors who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future...

Congratulations to Izzie Newsome, graduate student in Paul Dayton’s lab, for being awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the NIH.  This award will fund the project, “Toward Clinical Translation of Acoustic Angiography: Optimization of Microvascular Ultrasound Imaging on a Novel Dual-Frequency Array,” over a...

We are pleased to host a Happy Hour for MHI on Sept 6, 2019 from 4 – 6 pm in MBRB Lobby. We encourage you to stop by even to catch up with colleagues and relax on a Friday afternoon! We also encourage all trainees and staff to stop by – the...

Congratulations to Nigel Mackman, Ph.D., John C. Parker Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Program, for being recognized as the top-rated expert in thrombosis in the world by Expertscape.  Dr. Mackman’s expertise ranks in the top 0.0008% of 124,370 published authors worldwide on thrombosis from 2008...

Congratulations to Jiandong Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, for the receipt of R01 from the NIH.  Dr. Liu received grant, entitled “The Role of RNA-Binding Protein Lin28a in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”. The work was enthusiastically received by 3 different funding agencies, and Dr. Liu has accepted the NIH R01 Award. It is...

Congratulations to Adam Black, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Jimena Giudice’s lab for recently receiving a prestigious F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the NHLBI at the NIH.  Adam’s project focuses on understanding the physiological significance of alternative splicing and the factors that govern splicing regulation in the heart. Specifically, Adam is...

Congratulations to Stephen Serafin, graduate student in Kathleen Caron’s lab, for the receipt of a slot on the CCBTP T32 Grant.  As a graduate student, Stephen is now a fellow on the NCI Cancer Cell Biology CCBTP T32 grant.

Congratulations to Edward M. Bahnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, McAllister Heart Institute, Nobuyo N. Maeda, Ph.D., Robert H. Wagner Distinguished Professor & Joan M. Taylor, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology, for...

Congratulations to Gabrielle Gentile, graduate student in Jimena Giudice’s lab, for the receipt of a slot on the MiBio Training Grant.  We are very excited to see Gabby’s progress in the upcoming year as she studies how membrane trafficking splicing networks influence striated muscle development.