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Jonathan H. Jaggar, Ph.D. April 1, 2014 Department of Physiology University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, TN From left to right: Jonathan Jaggar, Xue (Roger) Zhai, Andrelina Noronha, Sarah Burris, Michael Kidd, Brent Williams, Dennis Leo, Qian Wang, Kirk Evanson, Simon Bulley. Not pictured – John Bannister Primary Research: My research program studies physiological…

Courtney Griffin, Ph.D. March 1, 2014 Cardiovascular Biology Research Program Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Oklahoma City, OK From left to right: Dr. Mandi Wiley, Kyle Ingram, Dr. Patrick Crosswhite, Dr. Courtney Griffin, Dr. E-Ching Ong and Vijay Muthukumar Primary Research: Our lab is interested in the transcriptional regulation of genes that impact vascular development and…

Madhulika Dixit, Ph.D. February 1, 2014 Department of Biotechnology Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) Tamilnadu, India From left to right back row: Abhriam, Sumedha, Uma Rani, Avaneesh, Rushendhiran, Shivam, Maneka, Abel, Rathnakumar, Hemant.  From left to right front row: Madhulika Dixit, Anuradha, Swapna, Monalisa, Soumi Primary Research: The primary objective of the lab…

Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Ph.D. January 1, 2014 Department of Pathology and Immunology Division of Immunobiology Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO From L to R, back row. Jesse Williams, Bernd Zinselmeyer, Gwen Randolph, Peter Wang, Stoyan Ivanov, Andrew Elvington Front L to R: Shashi Bala, Catherine Martel Primary Research: Our research integrates the…

Roy L. Silverstein, M.D. December 1, 2013 John and Linda Mellowes Professor and Chair Department of Medicine Medical College of Wisconsin Senior Investigator Blood Research Institute Blood Center of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI Primary Research: The goal of my research is to bridge bench to bedside to gain understanding of mechanisms responsible for athero-thrombotic and other…

Colleen Brophy, M.D., Joyce Cheung-Flynn, Ph.D. and Padmini Komalavilas, Ph.D. November 1, 2013 VA Medical Center, Nashville, TN Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Surgery Primary Research: Our lab is focused on the mechanisms of injury associated with harvest, preparation, and preservation of human saphenous vein grafts. We are also interested in calcium independent smooth…

Holger Gerhardt, Ph.D. October 1, 2013 Vascular Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute- Cancer Research UK, London, UK Vascular Patterning Laboratory, VRC, VIB, Leuven, Belgium From left to right: Veronique Gebala, Filipa Neto, Irene Aspalter, Li-Kun Phng, Fabio Stanchi, Russell Collins, Holger Gerhardt, Anne-Clemence Vion, Anan Ragab, Ilse Geudens, Pavel Nedvetsky, Thomas Mathivet, Martin Jones, Marly…

Alan Daugherty, Ph.D. September 1, 2013 SAHA Cardiovascular Research Center University of Kentucky From left to right: Kyung Sik Jung, Hong Lu,  Congqing Wu, Jing Liu, Venkat Subramanian, Frank Davis, Debra Rateri, Deborah Howatt, Alan Daugherty, Anju Balakrishnan, Jessica Moorleghen Primary Research: The primary focus of the laboratory is to delineate the role of the renin-angiotensin system on vascular pathology. In collaboration with the laboratory…

Alexander W. Clowes, M.D. July 1, 2013 Department of Surgery Center of Vascular Biology University of Washington From left to right: (back row) Shinsuke Kikuchi, Richard Kenagy, Andrew Burzo, Tony Grieff, Kevin Xiong, Lihua Chen; (front row) Julieann Marshall, Alexander Clowes, Lu Gao Primary Research: Over the last 30 years, we have been interested in how intimal…

Alan Dardik, M.D., Ph.D. June 1, 2013 Department of Surgery Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program Yale University School of Medicine From left to right:  Go Kuwahara, Hualong Bai, Michael Hall, Kota Yamamoto, Daniel Wong, Alan Dardik, Roland Assi, Taylor Williams (back), Nirvana Sadaghianloo (front), Daniel Lu, Clinton Protack Primary Research: The Dardik laboratory studies the healing and function of blood vessels and synthetic blood vessel…