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Janet Rubin, M.D. Selected For The Carolina Women’s Leadership Council’s Faculty-To-Junior Faculty Mentoring Award

June 12, 2023

Congratulations to Janet Rubin, M.D., Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor; Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism; Joint Professor, Pediatrics and Pharmacology; Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering, for being selected for the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council’s Faculty-To-Junior Faculty Mentoring Award. Dr. Rubin receives this award after constructing a program … Read more

Postdoctoral Student, Jessica Cote, Receives Pilot & Feasibility (P&F) Award From The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) And The Supporting, Promoting And Launching The Expansion Of Nutrition, Diabetes And Obesity Researchers-North Carolina (SPLENDOR-NC) Program

June 1, 2023

Congratulations to Jessica Cote, a graduate student and research assistant in the Giudice Lab, for the receipt of P&F award from the UNC NORC and SPLENDOR-NC Program.             Her proposal, titled, “Clathrin alternative splicing regulation of mitochondria function in skeletal muscle”, is a 1-year grant. SPLENDOR-NC draws upon well-established collaborations … Read more

Graduate Student, James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, Receives Marzluff RNA Fellowship Award From The UNC Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) Discovery Center

June 1, 2023

Congratulations to James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, a graduate student and research assistant in the Conlon Lab, for recently receiving the Marzluff RNA Fellowship Award from the UNC RNA Discovery Center. Ike is the inaugural recipient of this fellowship award, a 1-year grant, which provides stipend support for his studies of the RNA regulation of the … Read more

Postdoctoral Student, Ameya Chaudhari, Receives GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Fellowship Award

May 17, 2023

Congratulations to Ameya Chaudhari, a postdoctoral student, in Dr. Nguyen’s Lab, for recently receiving a GSK Fellowship Award. The GSK Fellowship is strategically awarded to applicants who have made an outstanding contribution to the graduate program, demonstrate evidence of outstanding research accomplishments, and have the potential for a highly successful career that will have a … Read more

Boa Kim, Ph.D. Receives Pilot & Feasibility (P&F) Award From The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) And The Supporting, Promoting And Launching The Expansion Of Nutrition, Diabetes And Obesity Researchers-North Carolina (SPLENDOR-NC) Program

May 17, 2023

Congratulations to Boa Kim, Ph.D., a MHI member and Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, Lineberger Cancer Center, for the receipt of P&F award from the UNC NORC and SPLENDOR-NC Program. The grant, titled, “Do endothelial lipid droplets buffer the kinetics of lipid transport?”, is a 1-year grant. SPLENDOR-NC … Read more

John S. Ikonomidis, M.D., Ph.D. And Adam Akerman, Ph.D. Publish In The Journal Of Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery (JTCVS) And The Journal PLOS ONE

May 3, 2023

Congratulations to John S. Ikonomidis, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Adam Akerman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, for publishing articles, titled “Therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cells and their secreted extracellular vesicles in thoracic aortic aneurysm disease” and “A standardized method for plasma extracellular vesicle … Read more

Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., In Collaboration With Arthur P. Arnold, Ph.D., Publishes In The Journal Nature Cardiovascular Research

May 3, 2023

Congratulations to Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, in collaboration with Arthur P. Arnold, Ph.D., Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), for publishing article, titled “Sex-chromosome mechanisms in cardiac development and disease”, in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research. The work was featured on the cover of … Read more

Alumnae Graduate Student, Danielle Buglak, Publishes In eLife Magazine

April 7, 2023

Congratulations to Danielle Buglak, Ph.D., a Cell Biology and Physiology alumnae graduate student, formerly in the Bautch Lab, for publishing article, titled “Nuclear SUN1 stabilizes endothelial cell junctions via microtubules to regulate blood vessel formation”, in eLife magazine. The work is a beautiful study of how a nuclear-membrane localized protein affects endothelial cell junctions and … Read more

Undergraduate Student, Ricardo Scheufen Tieghi, And Postdoctoral Fellow, Pauline Bougaran, Receive 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Award From National Institute Of Standards And Technology (NIST)

April 7, 2023

Congratulations to Ricardo Scheufen Tieghi, an undergraduate student, and his mentor, Dr. Pauline Bougaran, a postdoctoral fellow, both in Dr. Bautch’s Lab, for recently receiving a 2023 SURF award from NIST. This award provides funds to do research in the Bautch Lab on nuclear SUN proteins in vascular biology.