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Congratulations to Joan M. Taylor, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology, in collaboration with Elena V. Batrakova, Ph.D. (UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy), for the receipt of grant from NCTraCS. Their grant, titled “Pre-Clinical Evaluation of a Novel Therapeutic Target for Parkinson’s Disease” was chosen for...

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, In Collaboration With Pamela Robey, Ph.D. (NIH), for moderating ISSCR’s global networking weekly meeting, titled “Stem Cell Research Approaches To COVID-19”.       Dr. Qian joins Dr. Robey to co-chair this meeting that is a part...

Congratulations to Alexandra Mercel, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Kibbe’s Lab, for having paper, titled “A comparative study of a pre-clinical survival model of smoke inhalation injury in mice and rats” accepted on July 5, 2020 for publication in the journal AJP-LUNG.  

Congratulations to Mia Klein and Hussein Kassam, postdoctoral fellows in Dr. Kibbe’s Lab, in collaboration with Erica Peters, Ph.D., and Jess Rouan, M.D., both also in the Kibbe Lab, for publishing paper, titled “Development of Optimized Tissue-Factor-Targeted Peptide Amphiphile Nanofibers to Slow Non-Compressible Torso Hemorrhage”, in the journal ACSNANO.  ...

Congratulations to William J. Polacheck, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, for publishing paper, entitled “Uncovering mutation-specific morphogenic phenotypes and paracrine-mediated vessel dysfunction in a biomimetic vascularized mammary duct platform”, in the journal Nature Communications. Dr. Polacheck’s paper presents a new microphysiological model of a vascularized mammary duct to investigate cross-talk...

Congratulations to Craig R. Lee, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy; Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, in collaboration with Larisa H. Cavallari, Pharm.D., BCPS, FCCP (University of Florida) and Joseph S. Rossi, M.D.,...

Congratulations to Sophie Maiocchi, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Bahnson’s Lab, for the receipt of Burroughs Wellcome Fund 2020 Collaborative Research Travel Grant. Sophie has been selected to receive the grant for her project titled, “Encapsulation of thrombolytics with inverse flash nanopreciptation (iFNP) for their cell-mediated targeted delivery to thrombosis”.

Congratulations to Kelsey Quinn, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Caron’s Lab, for publishing in the journal Placenta. This newest paper, led by Kelsey, is titled “Deletion of atypical chemokine receptor 3 (ACKR3) increases immune cells at the fetal-maternal interface” and is featured in the June 2020 edition of...

Jonathan Schisler, M.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, a UNC biochemist and age researcher, is part of the Coronavirus International Research Team, an interdisciplinary research working group formed by NASA to analyze COVID-19 data to address different aspects of the virus.  

        Dear MHI Colleagues: It is with great pleasure (and quite belatedly!) that I introduce to you Delphi Bull, who has taken over as MHI Business Manager on a part-time basis. Many of you already know Delphi, as she has worked at UNC for many years, and...