Category: News

Congratulations to the Lab of Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, for publishing their exciting review of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling in blood vessels in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. The work from Dr. Bautch’s Lab was...

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 a new microfluidic platform for vascular biology in Biofabrication. Dr. Gi-Hun Lee and colleagues in the lab addressed...

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Matthew Wolfgang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, for being selected as finalists for the 2022 Creativity Hub Award. Their research creativity hub, CTSB-RID (Center for Therapeutic Systems Biology of Respiratory Infections Diseases), seeking...

Congratulations to Brian C. Jensen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, in collaboration with current and former MHI members, Silvio Antoniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, also a member of the UNC Blood Research Center, and Zhaokang Cheng, Ph.D., former postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Taylor’s...

Congratulations to Sophie Maiocchi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Bahnson Research Group, for recently receiving a K99/R00 pathway to independence award from the NIH’s NHLBI. Sophie’s project is titled “Targeted Drug Delivery for the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease and Its Clinical Complications”.  

Congratulations to Kirsten Giesbrecht, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics, advised by and in the lab of Boyce Griffith, Ph.D., for recently receiving a predoctoral fellowship from AHA. Her project, which will be joint with the lab of Michael Bressan, Ph.D., an MHI member and Assistant Professor of...

Congratulations to the Lab of Boyce Griffith, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics, Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Physical Sciences & Biomedical Engineering, in collaboration with Thomas G. Caranasos, M.D., Director, Adult Cardiac Surgery; Assistant Professor of Surgery, John P. Vavalle, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, UNC Structural Heart...

Congratulations to Natalie Harris, a graduate student, and Natalie Nielsen, an alumni graduate student, both in Dr. Caron’s Lab, for publishing paper, titled “VE-Cadherin Is Required for Cardiac Lymphatic Maintenance and Signaling”, in the journal Circulation Research. The “Natalies'” much anticipated paper focuses on the novel role of VE-cadherin in...

Congratulations to Matthew J. Flick, Ph.D., Member of McAllister Heart Institute; Associate Professor of Pathology, UNC Blood Research Center, for recently being appointed to chair the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Plasminogen Activation and Extracellular Proteolysis. An overarching objective of this meeting is to bring together biomedical practice with the...