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Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, for the receipt of 2019 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Award. The awards were established to recognize recently tenured faculty, such as Dr. Qian, that have already made significant scholarly contributions to their field and have begun to receive national recognition for their research....

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Associate Director of McAllister Heart Institute, for being named as one of their best reviewers by editors from Cell Press. She shares her experience and philosophies on peer reviewing in this issue of Cell.

Congratulations to Wolfgang Bergmeier, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UNC, for receipt of R35 from the NHLBI, which supports accomplished leaders in blood research. The purpose of the NHLBI R35 Program is to promote scientific productivity and innovation by providing long-term support and increased flexibility to experienced...

Congratulations to Claire Trincot, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Researcher, CorDynamics, Inc., Caron Lab, for publishing review on the gender differences found in lymphatic function in ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science.

Congratulations to The Conlon Lab, In Collaboration with Ileana Cristea’s Lab (Princeton University), for publishing article on the protein composition, protein complexes and protein pathways of four model vertebrates used to study human heart disease in the journal PloS Biology.  The study uncovers conserved and divergent protein pathways in the...

Congratulations to Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, for the receipt of 2019 Phillip & Ruth Hettleman Prize For Artistic & Scholarly Achievement.  The annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to four associate professors who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future...

Congratulations to Izzie Newsome, graduate student in Paul Dayton’s lab, for being awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the NIH.  This award will fund the project, “Toward Clinical Translation of Acoustic Angiography: Optimization of Microvascular Ultrasound Imaging on a Novel Dual-Frequency Array,” over a...

We are pleased to host a Happy Hour for MHI on Sept 6, 2019 from 4 – 6 pm in MBRB Lobby. We encourage you to stop by even to catch up with colleagues and relax on a Friday afternoon! We also encourage all trainees and staff to stop by – the...

Congratulations to Nigel Mackman, Ph.D., John C. Parker Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Program, for being recognized as the top-rated expert in thrombosis in the world by Expertscape.  Dr. Mackman’s expertise ranks in the top 0.0008% of 124,370 published authors worldwide on thrombosis from 2008...