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Congratulations to James Faber, Ph.D., Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for publishing papers, entitled “Collateral vessels have unique endothelial and smooth muscle cell phenotypes”, “Risk factors for acute ischemic stroke caused by anterior large vessel occlusion”, “Transient versus permanent MCA occlusion in mice genetically modified to have good versus poor...

Congratulations to Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, for having his illustration selected for the cover of the Journal Of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Schisler’s illustration will appear in the December 13, 2019 issue of the Journal Of Biological Chemistry, and his paper, entitled “Changes in protein function...

Congratulations to Frank Conlon, Ph.D., Professor, Biology; (Research) Genetics, in collaboration with Stefan Hoppler, MSc, Ph.D. (University of Aberdeen), for publishing manuscript, entitled “Xenopus: Experimental Access to Cardiovascular Development, Regeneration Discovery, and Cardiovascular Heart-Defect Modeling“ in the journal Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology.

Congratulations to Nick Buglak, a toxicology and environmental medicine Ph.D. student in the Bahnson Research Group, for recently receiving a prestigious Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. Nick’s fellowship provides stipend support for 2 years for his project, entitled “Cinnamic aldehyde inhibition of neointimal hyperplasia is dependent on Nrf2...

Congratulations to Wenjing Xu, postdoctoral student in Dr. Caron’s Lab, for having her image selected for the cover of ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science. In Wenjing’s image, whole-mount immunohistochemistry of an adult mouse heart shows the superficial coverage of podoplanin-expressing cardiac lymphatics on the ventral surface and expanding toward the...

Congratulations to Nick Buglak, graduate student in Dr. Bahnson’s Lab, for submitting a first author publication to the journal, Cardiovascular Research.

Congratulations to Ana Cartaya, pharmacology graduate student in Edward Moreira Bahnson’s lab, for being awarded a “Young Investigator Award” at the 2019 SfRBM Annual Conference. Ana received her award, which includes a certificate, a cash prize, and free registration for either the 2020 or 2021 Annual Conference, at the Closing...

Congratulations to the lab of Jimena Giudice, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for being recognized by Undergraduate Chancellor’s Science Scholar, Eduardo Torres, during UNC Research Week. Eduardo is a biology major doing epigenetics research in the Giudice lab. He states, “I’ve learned so much during my time in...

Congratulations to the lab of Paul Dayton, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Clinical Research, Breast Cancer, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, for having their work on oxygen microbubbles featured by H. Shelton Earp, III, MD, Lineberger Distinguished Professor & Director, UNC Cancer Care, during the UNC Lineberger State of the Program.