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A Researcher, Leader & Mentor For three decades Dr. Victoria Bautch has conducted research at the University of North Carolina. Most of those years have been spent as a member of the McAllister Heart Institute (MHI), with the last seven dedicated to her role as co-director. Dr. Bautch is preparing to step down...

Congratulations to 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, and Chloe Whitworth, a Ph.D. student in Genetics and Molecular Biology, for publishing article, titled “P300 modulates endothelial mechanotransduction of fluid shear stress”,...

Congratulations to the Lab of Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, for being featured in Nature Portfolio’s SOMA Launch. The journal made a pretty awesome landing page, which includes a “SOMA Across Orbits” video and a plug for the Schisler Lab as part of the leadership for...

Congratulations to Boyoung Kim, a postdoctoral researcher in Boa Kim’s Lab for recently receiving a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship from the NRF in Korea. Boyoung will use the award to study the effect of endothelial lipid droplet metabolism on insulin resistance. The fellowship provides stipend support and institutional allowances for one...

Congratulations to Kayla Mason, graduate student & James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, graduate student and research assistant, both in the Conlon Lab, for the receipt of 2024 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference Awards in Montreal Canada. Kayla was awarded “Best Oral Presentation”, and Ike received the top-posted prize.

Congratulations to Wei Shi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conlon Lab, in collaboration with the Lab of Ian Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology; G. Denman Hammond Professor of Childhood Cancer, UNC Children’s Research Institute and the Lab of Christine Edry Seidman, M.D., Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center; Professor, Harvard Medical...

Congratulations to Jimena Giudice, Ph.D., a MHI member and Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, in collaboration with Hao Jiang, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, for publishing article, titled “Splicing regulation through biomolecular condensates and membraneless organelles”, in the journal Nature Reviews Molecular Cell...

Congratulations to the Lab of Li Qian, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for publishing article, titled “Direct conversion of cardiac fibroblasts into endothelial-like cells using Sox17 and Erg”, in the journal Nature Communications. The work from the Qian Lab’s team was first-authored by postdoctoral fellow, Gregory Farber....

Congratulations to Jessica Cote, a postdoctoral research associate in Jimena Giudice’s Lab for recently receiving a prestigious F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship from the NIAMS at the NIH. Jessica will use the award to study the impact of specific alternative splicing events on skeletal muscle development. The F32 provides stipend support and...

Congratulations to Aung Moe Zaw, Ph.D., Director and Head Surgeon, MHI-Cardiovascular Physiology and Phenotyping Core, for the receipt of CFAC awards. Dr. Zaw received $37,550 for a Mouse Working Heart Foundation System (Fall 2023) and $15,300 for a rodent surgical monitor and small animal ventilator (Spring 2024).