Congratulations to the Lab of 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 publishing on the development of patient cell-derived matrix for vascular disease modeling in Acta Biomaterialia. For this manuscript, titled “Patient-derived extracellular matrix demonstrates role … Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Congratulations to Emma Bouck and Dre Dobson, both graduate students, currently in Dr. Wolbeg’s Lab, for successfully defending their Ph.D. theses. Dre is also an alumus of North Carolina A&T State University, studying genetic modifiers of fibrinogen expression and specializing in molecular biology tools and assays. This has been a huge week in the Wolberg … Read more