A gene that is overexpressed in some aggressive cancers also appears to be key to the excessive cell proliferation that thickens the walls of pulmonary arteries and ultimately causes the right ventricle of the heart to fail, Dr. David Fulton reports.
There is a bidirectional intersection of the nation’s top two killers that Dr. Weintraub and other MCG scientists want to better understand and disrupt.
New treatment targets found for blinding retinal disease
Drs. Caldwell, Huo and Liu, scientists at MCG, find new treatment targets found for blinding retinal disease.
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American Heart Association Cardio-Oncology Strategically Focused Research NetworkA prestigious group gathered on our campus for the American Heart Association Cardio-Oncology Strategically Focused Research Network Semiannual Meeting. It was last summer when the AHA announced this new network on disparities in cardio-oncology that is pursuing the intersection of heart disease and cancer, common conditions that share common risks like obesity and chronic inflammation, with the goal of better understanding the dynamics and how to better identify and address this intersection which disproportionately affects underrepresented populations. MCG, Boston University School of Medicine, the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania are the institutions selected for this important initiative. |
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CSRA AHA Heart Ball 2022In more than 150 communities across the country, Heart Ball supporters unite with a shared purpose to raise the critical funds we need to ensure our work continues. Throughout our campaign we celebrate our milestones, we thank our sponsors and we honor our heroes. We come together to achieve something bigger than ourselves. |
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Kudos Experimental Biology 2022 Awardees
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Congratulations Dr. Eric Belin de Chantemèle!Dr. Belin de Chantemele received the 2021 AURI Outstanding Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award. |
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February 4, 2022 is the Annual American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Day to increase women’s heart health awareness. Most heart disease and stroke deaths are preventable, cardiovascular diseases continue to be a woman’s greatest health threat. |
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Congratulations Dr. Eric Belin de Chantemèle!Dr. Belin de Chantemèle is to Present the Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Lecture during the Experimental Biology 2021 Conference held April 27-30. This award honors early-career achievement in physiology and is given to an APS member younger than 42 or who is fewer than eight years from the start of the first faculty or staff research scientist position beyond postdoctoral training. Dr. Belin de Chantemèle’s lecture is Obesity-Associate Cardiovascular Disease: The exposed Secret of the Sexes. |
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(left to right) Qiuhua Yang, Taylor Kress, Caleb Padgett, Candee Barris, Reem Atawia & Robert Batori
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36th Annual Graduate Research Day
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Congratulations to Rudolf Lucas!Rudolf Lucas, PhD received an Intramural Grants Program (IGP) award for his project entitled: Restoration of ENaC Blunts SARS-CoV2S Protein-Induced Lung Endothelial Dysfunction Congratulations to Dr. Lucas and his team! |
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Congrats to Vascular Biology PhD candidate, Caleb PadgettPhD Student Brings Joy to Patients in the Georgia Cancer Center |
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Congratulations to Dr. Yuqing Huo!Dr. Huo was awarded the 2020 AURI Distinguished Researcher Award. Research interests
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Congratulations!Ruth B. Caldwell, PhD received the 2020 AURI Research Lifetime Achievement Award. Research Interests
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Congratulations to MCG Faculty Senate Awardees, Drs. Yuqing Huo & David Stepp!Yuqing Huo, MD, PhD, Professor of Cellular Biology and Anatomy received the 2020 Basic Science Research Award
David Stepp, PhD, Professor of Physiology received the Outstanding Faculty Award |
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Congratulations!Dr. Reem Atawia, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Belin de Chantemele’s lab has been awarded a one year Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Physiological Society (APS) “Perivascular Adipose Tissue Regulates Endothelial Function And Glucose Disposal Via Leptin-Control Of the endothelial PFKFB3-Nox1 pathway” |
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Congratulations!Jie Li, PhD Jr Faculty Award 1st Place Oral Presentation "Ubiquitin-fold modifier 1 (Ufm1), a small protein modifier with big impact on pathological cardiac remodeling" Academy of Cardiovascular Research Excellence (ACRE) |
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Congratulations!Eric Belin de Chantmele, PhD RO1 Score of 2 percentile!! "Ubiquitin-fold modifier 1 (Ufm1), a small protein modifier with big impact on pathological cardiac remodeling" |
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AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Begins January 2020Robert Batori, PhD "Novel roles of PFKFB3 in mediating nitric oxide syntheses and endothelial dysfunction in obesity" |
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ATVB Travel Award for Basic Science Abstracts Oral Presentation2019 AHA Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia. Huiping Lin "Receptor-independent Ldl Macropinocytosis By Macrophages Contributes To The Pathogenesis Of Atherosclerosis" |
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Top score in Best Poster Award at AHA 2019Archita Das “Cu Importer CTR1 is a Redox Sensor That Promotes VEGFR2 Signaling and Angiogenesis”. |
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Intramural Grants Program Award (IGP)The purpose of the IGP is to assist Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University faculty members in competing successfully for major research funding from external sponsors. This award is administered through the Division of Sponsored Program Administration on behalf of the Office of Vice President for Research. After a rigorous application review, this year VBC has racked up the awards!
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Brian Stansfield Featured on WJBF |
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2019 Stephanie Watts Career Development Award FinalistThiago Bruder do Nascimento, PhD As a finalist, Dr. Bruder do Nascimento will be attending the AHA Hypertension 2019 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, LA in September to compete for this coveted award. The Stephanie Watts Career Development Award was established to honor the advocacy work of Dr. Stephanie Watts, an active member of the Council on Hypertension, who has always advocated for the needs of the many trainees associated with the Council. |
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NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99)Bhupesh Singla, PhD,
The purpose of this program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported, independent investigators. This program is designed to facilitate a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers or clinician-scientists from mentored research positions to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions, and to provide independent NIH research support during the transition that will help these individuals launch competitive, independent research careers. |
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VBC 2019 PHD AwardeesAlec Davila, MD/PhD Aluya Oseghale, PhD
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Vascular Biology Students Have Major Showing at Graduate Research Day
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ATVB Conference Finalist for the
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Peptide May Protect Kidneys From OurselvesDr Lucas and Team have research featured |
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Dr Brian Stansfield Elected President of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research |
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Winner of the American Heart Association - Council on Hypertension 2018 Onsite Trainee Poster AwardThiago Bruder do Nascimento, Postdoctoral Fellow "Leptin Supplementation Restores Endothelial Function And Vascular Adrenergic Tone Via Direct Endothelial Mechanisms And Sympato-activation, Respectively, In A Mouse Model Of Congenital Lipodystrophy" |
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American Heart Summer 2018 Predoc Award WinnerAlec Davila, MD/PhD Candidate
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Winner of the "National Institutes of Health (NIH) F31 Fellowship Award"Steve Haigh, Graduate Student Project Title: The hypoxia inducible factor: Galectin 3 signaling axis in pulmonary hypertension |
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American Heart Summer 2018 Predoc Award WinnerHuiping Lin, PhD Candidate ATVB Travel Award for Young Investigators |
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New Target Could Help Protect Vision Following Optic Nerve Trauma.Dr. Abdelrahman Y. Fouda, Dr. Ruth B. Caldwell and research associate Zhimin Xu's work featured in Jagwire. |
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Drs. Eric Belin de Chantemele and Jessica Faulkner featured in Jagwire and on WJBF. |
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Congratulations Dr. Rudolf Lucas of the Vascular Biology CenterRecipient of the 2018 Distinguished Researcher Award. |
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Congratulations Dr. Gabor Csanyi of the Vascular Biology CenterRecipient of the 2018 Emerging Scientist Award. |
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Getting leptin levels “just right” may provide cardiovascular protectionDrs. Thiago Bruder do Nascimento and Eric Belin de Chantemele featured in Jagwire, |
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Dr. Ruth Caldwell receives RO1National Institute of Health Research Project Grant (R01) Award |
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Sex Differences in Mechanisms of Hypertension Associated with ObesityEric Belin de Chantemele, PhD interviewed at Joint Hypertension 2018 Scientific Sessions
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New Target is an Apparent Triple Threat to PneumoniaDr. Rudolf Lucas of the VBC featured on WJBF News. |
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New Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment Target in the Bull's-eyeDr. Yunchao Su and Dr. Yuqing Huo of the VBC featured. Read the feature on Medical Xpress |
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Scientists work to protect obese, younger women from cardiovascular riskDr. Eric Belin de Chantemele and Dr. Jessica Faulkner, postdoctoral fellow, featured in Jagwire |
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Just one high-fat meal sets the perfect stage for heart diseaseDr. Neal L. Weintraub, Dr. Julia E. Brittain and doctoral Student Tyler W. Benson in Jagwire. |
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Copper excess in diabetes hinders our ability to make healthy blood vesselsDrs. Masuko Ushio-Fukai and Tohru Fukai of the VBC featured in Jagwire |
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New target emerging for treating diabetes-related blood vessel damageDr. Masuko Ushio-Fukai featured in Jagwire |
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Too little fat is bad for cardiovascular health and leptin therapy may helpGrant by Dr. Bruder do Nascimento and Dr. Belin de Chantemele featured in Jagwire. |
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Likely new treatment target identified for Diabetic RetinopathyDr. Yuqing Huo and Dr. Zhiping Liu of VBC featured |
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VBC's Dr. Romero-Lucas Receives 2018 AwardMaritza Romero-Lucas, MD, D. Sc, of the VBC, receives Pilot Study Research Program (PSRP) Award! |
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American Heart Postdoc Award WinnerAnita Kovacs-Kasa, PhD, Project: "HDAC7 in MLCP-mediated endothelial barrier preservation" Sponsor: Dr. Alexander Verin |
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American Heart Postdoc Award WinnerTaysuya Aonuma, PhD, Project: "The axis of long noncoding RNA MIAT and microRNA-150 in acute myocardial infarction" Sponsor: Il-man Kim |
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American Society of Hematology
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Jian Peng “JP” Teoh, PhD Thesis: “ß-adrenergic receptor/ß-arrestin-mediated mircroRNA maturation regulatory network: A new player in cardioprotective signaling.” Mentor: Dr. Il-man Kim |
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Huijuan “Emily” Dou, PhD Thesis: “ADAM17 and age-related vascular dysfunction” Mentor: Dr. Zsolt Bagi |
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Esraa Shosha, PhD with Distinction Thesis: “Neurovascular Degeneration Following Retinal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury: Role of Arginase 2” Mentor: Dr. Ruth Caldwell |
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2017 BCVS Minority Travel Award recipientRodney Littlejohn, MD, PhD Student in Huabo Su’s lab received the |