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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, in collaboration with Jason Stein, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, UNC Neuroscience Center, for the receipt of NeuroSpark pilot award to develop...

Congratulations to the Lab of Jiandong Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Lab of Li Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, for publishing article, titled “Epigenetic Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Maturation by Arginine Methyltransferase CARM1”, in the journal Circulation. The work from...

Congratulations to Chloe Whitworth, a Ph.D. student in Genetics and Molecular Biology, under the co-mentorship of 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 Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished...

Congratulations to Jiandong Zhang, M.D., Interventional Cardiology Fellow, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine; Pharmacology alumnus postdoctoral fellow, formerly in the Jensen Lab, in collaboration with Joseph S. Rossi, MD, MSCI, FACC, FSCAI, Professor of Medicine; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab; Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship; Co-Director of Cardiology Clinical Trials,...

Congratulations to the Lab of Robert Wirka, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology and Physiology, Division of Cardiology, for the receipt of R01 grant, entitled “The role of Twist1 in smooth muscle cells during atherosclerosis”, from NIH’s NHLBI. Over the next 5 years, this funding will allow the...

Congratulations to Molly Kulikauskas, a CBP graduate student in the Bautch Lab, and Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, for publishing article, titled “Endothelial cell SMAD6 balances Alk1 function to regulate adherens junctions and hepatic vascular development”, in the journal...

Congratulations to James Isaiah (Ike) Emerson, a graduate student and research assistant in the Conlon Lab, Pablo Ariel, Ph.D., Director, Microscopy Services Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Wei Shi, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conlon Lab, and Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for publishing...

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Congratulations to the Lab of Jonathan Schisler, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, in collaboration with Afshin Beheshti, Ph.D., Bioinformatician and Principal Investigator, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science/NASA Ames Research Center; Visiting Researcher, Broad Institute; President, COVID-9 International Research Team, for the receipt of space biology research grant,...

Congratulations to Gabrielle M. Gentile, B.Sc., a Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) graduate student in the Giudice Lab, for recently receiving a F31 predoctoral fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI. The fellowship provides ongoing stipend support for her project, titled “Alternative splicing regulation of CLTC in the heart”.