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Mary Wallingford, Ph.D. July 1, 2021 Mother Infant Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center Primary Research: Placental Vascular Development and Disease Lab Web Site: https://www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/research-clinical-trials/institutes-centers-labs/mother-infant-research-institute/laboratories/wallingford-lab Members of the laboratory:  Ana Correia-Branco, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (TMC) Nirmala Jayaraman, BS, Graduate Student Co-op (TMC) Hamida Giwa, Undergraduate Student (Tufts University), BDBS…

Carmen Halabi, M.D., Ph.D. May 1, 2021 Department of Pediatrics Division of Nephrology Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Primary Research: The overall goal of the lab is to understand the role of the extracellular matrix, particularly the elastic fiber, in vascular development and disease such as aneurysms and hypertension. We utilize mouse…

Teresa Sanchez, Ph.D. November 1, 2020 Assistant Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute Weill Cornell Medicine New York, NY Primary Research: Severe endothelial dysfunction plays a critical role in organ failure and death in numerous clinical settings. In cerebrovascular diseases and central nervous system pathologies, blood-brain barrier dysfunction contributes…

Ramani Ramchandran, Ph.D. October 1, 2020 Professor Division of Neonatology Department of Pediatrics Children’s Research Institute Medical College of Wisconsin Wauwatosa, WI Primary Research: We are interested in how vessels are formed during embryonic development, and how this process goes awry in disease states, specifically artery-vein malformation and intraventricular hemorrhage. Our focus is on the…

Bhama Ramkhelawon, Ph.D. September 1, 2020 Assistant Professor of Surgery and Cell Biology New York University Langone Medical Center New York, NY Primary Research: Mechanisms of Vascular remodeling in health and Disease Laboratory Website: https://med.nyu.edu/ramkhelawonlab/ramkhelawon-lab Members of the laboratory:  2 postdocs, 1 graduate student, 1 lab manager, 1 lab technicial, Master students     Recent Publications: Platelet-Derived…

Marlene Rabinovitch, M.D. June 1, 2020 Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA Primary Research: Our research program seeks to identify the cellular and molecular programs that are dysregulated in vascular disease with a focus on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). This condition can be a fatal complication…

Julie A. Phillippi, Ph.D. May 1, 2020 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine University of Pittsbugh Pittsburgh, PA Primary Research: The Phillippi Laboratory is focused on two primary objectives 1) Understanding the role of the microvasculature in cardiovascular pathologies; and 2) Developing novel technologies that therapeutically preserve or regenerate microvasculature. Active…