Congratulations to Elizabeth Doherty, a graduate student and IVB trainee in the Polacheck Lab, for recently receiving an F31 individual fellowship award from NIH’s NHLBI.     The fellowship provides stipend support to develop cell and tissue biomechanical methods to better understand and treat vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Elizabeth’s project is titled, “Defining the role of extracellular … Read more

Congratulations to Sandra Stangeland-Molo, Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering (BME), NCSU/UNC, who received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, currently in Dr. Cole’s Lab, for recently receiving a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA individual predoctoral fellowship (Parent F31) from NIH’s Research Training and Career Development. The fellowship is sponsored by Jacqueline … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Frank L. Conlon, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Genetics, for publishing paper, titled “CHD4 is recruited by GATA4 and NKX2-5 to repress non-cardiac gene programs in the developing heart”, in the journal Genes & Development. The work from Dr. Conlon’s Lab team was co-first authored by past research assistant, Zachary … Read more

Congratulations to Benjamin Keepers, a graduate research assistant, who received his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Rutgers University, currently in Dr. Qian’s Lab, for preparing to defend Ph.D. thesis. Ben’s Ph.D. Defense, titled ““A Change of Heart: Novel Approaches to Direct Cardiac Reprogramming”, is scheduled for April 18, 2022, in … Read more

Congratulations to Peyton Sandroni, a graduate student in the Jensen Lab, and Brian C. Jensen, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, for publishing review article, titled “Adrenergic Receptor Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Mitochondrial Function” in the Journal Of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. Their work can be read online now.

Congratulations to Paul A. Dayton, Ph.D., William R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UNC & NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Clinical Research, Breast Cancer, for being appointed new Chair of the UNC-NCSU Department of Biomedical Engineering.  Read More

Congratulations to Robert Wirka, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology and Physiology, Division of Cardiology, for publishing a paper, titled “ZEB2 Shapes the Epigenetic Landscape of Atherosclerosis”, in the journal Circulation. This co-first author paper was based off of some of the work Dr. Wirka did as a post-doc during his Cardiology Fellowship … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Edward Moreira Bahnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, Center for Nanotechnology, for publishing paper, titled “Antioxidant Response Activating nanoParticles (ARAPas) localize to atherosclerotic plaque and locally activate the Nrf2 pathway” in Biomaterials Science, a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In this work, led by postdoctoral fellow … Read more

Congratulations to the Lab of Victoria L. Bautch, Ph.D., Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology; Co-Director, UNC McAllister Heart Institute, for publishing their exciting review of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling in blood vessels in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. The work from Dr. Bautch’s Lab was led by Cell Biology and … Read more