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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.

Congratulations to Karina Kinghorn, graduate student in Victoria Bautch’s lab, for the receipt of a slot on the UNC IVB Training Grant.  Karina is investigating post-translational regulation of VEGFR1 (Flt1).

A McAllister team from Li Qian’s Lab has published new research in Cell Stem Cell that holds promise to “mend a broken heart” by describing how to directly reprogram human fibroblasts into cardiomyocytes.  The research described in the paper, “Single Cell Transcriptomic Analyses of Cell Fate Transitions during Human Cardiac...

Congratulations to Hong Ma, Ph.D., M.D., a Research Associate in Jiandong Liu’s laboratory, for receipt of the Early Career Investigator Travel Awards.  Dr. Ma received this award at the 2019 ISHR Meeting last week.

Congratulations to Natalie Tanke, graduate student in Vicki Bautch’s lab, for the receipt of the MiBio Training Grant.  We are very excited to see Natalie’s progress on the Cell Cycle and Vascular Heterogeneity project in the upcoming year.

Congratulations to Shaka X, post-baccalaureate student in Vicki Bautch’s lab, for being accepted to the UNC PREP Program.  We are very excited to see that Shaka is now part of the UNC PREP program.

Congratulations to Hannah Wiedner, a GMB graduate student in Dr. Jimena Giudice’s lab, for recently receiving a prestigious Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).  The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides stipend support for three years. Hannah’s project focuses on understanding alternative splicing regulation. Specifically, Hannah is investigating how...

Congratulations to Jiandong Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, for the receipt of Jefferson Pilot Award from the UNC School of Medicine.  Dr. Liu received grant in recognition of both past performance and future promise in research. It is an important achievement and demonstrates the high respect with which he is held by...

Congratulations to Nigel Mackman, Ph.D., John C. Parker Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Program, for the receipt of R01 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Dr. Mackman received grant, entitled “Mechanisms of Venous Thrombosis In Pancreatic Cancer”, to investigate the roles of tumor-derived, tissue factor-positive...