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The Schisler Lab, In Collaboration With Afshin Beheshti, Ph.D., Awarded Space Biology Research Grant From The National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA)

November 27, 2023
Congratulations to the Lab of Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Afshin Beheshti, Ph.D., Bioinformatician and Principal Investigator, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science/NASA Ames Research Center; Visiting Researcher, Broad Institute; President, COVID-9 International Research Team, for the receipt of space biology research grant,...

Graduate Student, Gabrielle M. Gentile, Receives F31 Predoctoral Fellowship Award From The National Institutes Of Health’s (NIH) National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute (NHLBI)

November 13, 2023
Congratulations to Gabrielle M. Gentile, B.Sc., a Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) graduate student in the Giudice Lab, for recently receiving a F31 predoctoral fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI. The fellowship provides ongoing stipend support for her project, titled “Alternative splicing regulation of CLTC in the heart”.

Whitney Edwards, Ph.D. And Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Publish In The Journal Development

November 13, 2023
Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for publishing article, titled “The Tbx20-TLE interaction is essential for the maintenance of the second heart field”, in the journal Development. The authors generated a mouse model with a...

Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., In Collaboration With Nathaniel J. Moorman, Ph.D., Publish In The Journal Science Translational Medicine

October 11, 2023
  Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Nathaniel J. Moorman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, for publishing article, titled “Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts”, in the journal Science Translational Medicine. This was an...

Graduate Student, Karina Kinghorn, Publishes In Angiogenesis

September 18, 2023
Congratulations to Karina Kinghorn, a Cell Biology and Physiology (CBP) graduate student, in the Bautch Lab, for publishing new paper, titled “A defined clathrin-mediated trafficking pathway regulates sFLT1/VEGFR1 secretion from endothelial cells”, in Angiogenesis.   The work describes how soluble VEGFR1 is secreted to regulate VEGF signaling. Critical modeling support...

The Jensen Lab, In Collaboration With Kelsey Fisher-Wellman, Ph.D. And William Y. Kim, M.D., Awarded R01 Grant From The National Institutes Of Health (NIH)

September 6, 2023
    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, Eastern Carolina University (ECU), and William (Billy) Y. Kim, M.D., Rush S. Dickson Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Professor, Department of Genetics, UNC-Chapel...

2023-2024 MHI Seminar Series, Fall Schedule

August 22, 2023

Doctorate Of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Student, Lucia Grandison, Receives 2023 Katherine Pryzwansky Young Investigator Award From The University Of North Carolina’s (UNC) Pathobiology and Translational Science Graduate Program

August 7, 2023
Congratulations to Lucia Grandison, a Ph.D. student, who received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology from the Washington University In St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, a member of Dr. Conlon’s Lab, for recently receiving a 2023 Katherine Pryzwansky Young Investigator Award from UNC’s Pathobiology and Translational Science Graduate...

Postdoctoral Fellow, Wei Shi, And Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., In Collaboration With The Seidman Lab, Publish In The Journal Circulation Research

August 7, 2023
Congratulations to Wei Shi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conlon Lab, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, in collaboration with the Lab of Christine Edry Seidman, M.D., Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center; Professor, Harvard Medical School; Cardiovascular Medicine, and Jonathan G. Seidman, Ph.D., Henrietta B. and Frederick...

Whitney Edwards, Ph.D. And Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., In Collaboration With The Cohen And Cristea Labs, Publish In The Journal Developmental Cell

July 12, 2023
Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, formerly in the Conlon Lab, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, in collaboration with the Labs of Sarah Cohen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Ileana M. Cristea, Ph.D., Henry L. Hillman Professor...