Congratulations to the Lab of Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for publishing paper, titled “Cardiac proteomics reveals sex chromosome-dependent differences between males and females that arise prior to gonad formation”, in the journal Developmental Cell. The work from Dr. Conlon’s Lab team was co-led by postdoctoral fellow, Wei Shi. It was … Read more

Congratulations to Ju Youn Beak, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Jensen’s Lab, for publishing paper, titled “The nuclear receptor ROR-alpha preserves cardiomyocyte mitochondrial function by regulating caveolin-3-mediated mitophagy”, in the journal JBC. This is a fitting send-off for Ju Youn. After four successful years at UNC, she has decided to take a position in industry. … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Juliane Nguyen, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Member of McAllister Heart Institute, Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, for publishing paper, titled “Delivering more for less: nanosized, minimal-carrier and pharmacoactive drug delivery systems”, in the journal ADDR. The work from Dr. Nguyen’s Lab team was led by … Read more

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 the receipt of R35 MIRA grant from the NIH. The grant, titled, “Integrative Approaches for the Fluidic Microenvironment”, is a 5-year grant and funds … Read more

Congratulations to Silvio Antoniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and member of the UNC Blood Research Center and UNC McAllister Heart Institute, in collaboration with James C. Bonner, Ph.D. (NCSU), for the receipt of R01 grant from the NIH’s NIEHS.  

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for recently being appointed a member of the AHA’s HBCU Scholar Mentor Program. AHA just launched the HBCU program in North Carolina this year, and Dr. Qian will be mentoring one of two North Carolina Central University (NCCU) scholars, Chisom Ezenweny. Dr. … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for the receipt of R01 grant from the NIH’s NHLBI. The grant, titled, “Mechanism and Function of Cardiac Transcriptional Repression Networks”, will investigate the mechanisms of the Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase (NuRD) complex in heart development and human congenital heart disease.

Congratulations to the Lab of Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, and Yuchao Jiang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Genetics; Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for publishing paper, titled “Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Endothelial Cell Transcriptome Heterogeneity Under Homeostatic Laminar Flow”, in the journal ATVB. … Read more

Congratulations to Ana Cartaya, a pharmacology graduate student, and Halle Lutz, an undergraduate student, both in the Bahnson Research Group, for publishing article, titled “Delivery of Cinnamic Aldehyde Antioxidant Response Activating nanoParticles (ARAPas) for Vascular Applications”, in the journal Antioxidants. In this paper, Ms. Cartaya and Ms. Lutz developed a nanoformulation termed ARAPas capable of … Read more

Congratulations to Ana Cartaya, a pharmacology graduate student in the Bahnson Research Group, for recently receiving an F31 predoctoral fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI.   The fellowship provides ongoing stipend support for her project, titled “Selective delivery of superoxide dismutase and catalase for restenosis prevention”. During her fellowship, Ms. Cartaya will optimize nanoformulations and a … Read more