Category: News

Congratulations to the Labs of Edward Moreira Bahnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology; Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery; McAllister Heart Institute, Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, Brian C. Jensen, M.D., an MHI member and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Victoria...

Congratulations to Whitney Edwards, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, for co-organizing the 2024 Triangle Regeneration Biology Symposium, a yearly event hosted by Duke University and the University of North Carolina (UNC). Everyone mark your calendars for the 2024 Triangle Regeneration Biology Symposium, to be held on October 1st,...

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....