Congratulations to Margeaux Wetendorf-Marbrey, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Lab of Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, for accepting an offer from Duke University for a faculty position. Dr. Wetendorf-Marbrey is heading off to do great things and will be missed!

Congratulations to the Lab of Brian C. Jensen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, in collaboration with Kelsey Fisher-Wellman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, and Jessica M. Ellis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, both with Eastern Carolina University (ECU), for the first renewal of R01 grant, entitled “Metabolic mechanisms of cardioprotection through … Read more

Congratulations to Brian C. Jensen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, for having his research on kinase inhibitor cardiotoxicity featured in UNC Health | UNC School of Medicine’s Newsroom. Dr. Jensen is a cardiologist and physician-scientist in the UNC Department of Medicine and is working in both the lab and the clinic to reduce … Read more

Congratulations to Paul A. Dayton, Ph.D., William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UNC & NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Clinical Research, Breast Cancer, in collaboration with Gianmarco Pinton, Ph.D., Associate Professor, NC & NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, along with collaborators from the SOM and Lineberger Cancer Center, for … Read more

Congratulations to the McAllister Heart Institute for the receipt of Undergraduate Summer Program grant from AHA. The grant proposal was spearheaded by Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, and prepared under the leadership of research associate, Rebekah Sanchez-Hodge, in collaboration with past and present undergraduates in Dr. Schisler’s lab and MHI contracts … Read more

Congratulations to Juliane Nguyen, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Member of McAllister Heart Institute, Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, for the receipt of R01 grant from the NIH’s NHLBI. The 1.9M grant provides funds to develop a living drug depot to treat heart attacks.  Read More…

Congratulations to the Lab of Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for publishing article, titled “Cross-lineage potential of Ascl1 uncovered by comparing diverse reprogramming regulatomes”, in the journal Cell Stem Cell. The work from the Qian Lab’s team was co-first-authored by postdoctoral fellow, Haofei Wang, and M.D./Ph.D. student, Benjamin Keepers. … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Jimena Giudice, Ph.D., a MHI member and Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, for publishing paper, titled “Mechanical stretching induces global transcriptional and posttranscriptional transitions and changes in SR proteins in muscle cells.”, in the journal Communications Biology. The work from the Giudice Lab’s team was mainly driven … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Kathleen M. Caron, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, for publishing a new, high-impact review article, titled “The Ebb and Flow of Cardiac Lymphatics: A Tidal Wave of New Discoveries”, in the APS Physiological Reviews.         The work from the Caron Lab’s team … Read more