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Congratulations to Dr. Mason Wheeler on the successful defense of her thesis. I’m beyond proud.
@mace_whee @FralinBiomed
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With support from @American_Heart, postdoctoral associate Mark Renton will explore how obesity impacts pannexin-1's regulation of blood flow in coronary microvascular disease.
Read about his research project ⤵️
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Congratulations to my dear friend @FarwahiqbalPhD! Beyond well deserved.
🎉 Match Day 2025
We're excited to welcome Farwah Iqbal and Valentyna (Valia) Kostiuk to the Stanford Vascular Surgery fam! Congratulations and welcome to the farm! 🌲
#Match2025
Honored to be the first recipient of this fellowship!
A @Zoom reunion of Zeta Beta Tau alumni led to the creation of a new fellowship for graduate student researchers. The first recipient will use the funding to study insulin resistance in cardiovascular disease.
Read more: news.vt.edu/articles/2024/12…
So excited to share! Thank you to @Jess4genes, @FralinBiomed, and @VT_TBMH for making this award possible.
Ph.D. candidate Mason Wheeler received a Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from the @nih_nhlbi! She’ll use the funds to study molecular pathways leading to diabetic heart disease.
📰 Full story on her research: news.vt.edu/articles/2024/10….
📢Fellowship Awarded! Please join us in congratulating Mason Wheeler on her F31! 🎉 @mace_whee @Jess4genes
Great talk, @SashaSmolgovsky! You did @PilarAlcaidePhD so proud 🫀
Congratulations @AdrianA69807039 !!! 🤩
Please check out Adrian’s paper out now in @jbiolchem, Circadian control of histone turnover during cardiac development and growth @AdrianA69807039 @UCLAAnes @ucla @dgsomucla @ManuelRosaGarr1 @Toddzillaroo sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Replying to @FralinBiomed
@FralinBiomed Employee Appreciation Day! 🧬🧪
@mace_whee
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Such a fun event! Can’t wait until next year ❤️
@HeartNews @AmericanHeartVA @American_Heart @GoRedForWomen
@FralinBiomed
Hometown Jobs: 2024 STEM Goes Red event for high school students wdbj7.com/2024/05/22/hometow…
Big congratulations to @Arielys_Mendoza and @karchoptosis !!
Mendoza et al found the balance between Ca2+ & #ROS concentrations can dictate which #necrotic cell death pathway (#mPTP vs. #ferroptosis) becomes initiated at the level of the #mitochondria during #I/R injury ahajrnls.org/4dQjst6
@Arielys_Mendoza @karchoptosis
Mason Wheeler retweeted
🚨 𝐑𝟎𝟏 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃 🚨
@Jess4genes will study the connection between high-fat diet + Type 2 diabetes/heart disease with funding from a new, five-year, $2.5 million grant from the @nih_nhlbi, part of the @NIH 🍕🫀
📰 ⬇️
news.vt.edu/articles/2024/05…
A huge congratulations to @Jess4genes on her first R01!
news.vt.edu/articles/2024/05…
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It was a pleasure to partner with our local #AHA to put on STEM Goes Red 2024 at @FralinBiomed ❤️
@AmericanHeartVA @AHA_Research @AHAScience @HeartNews @American_Heart
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We're excited to announce our 2024 Roanoke STEM Goes Red Chairs - Veronica van Montfrans, PhD with @virginia_tech and Jessica Pfleger, PhD with @FralinBiomed! Thank you for helping bring STEM to so many young women in the region! #GoRedNoke #STEMGoesRed
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Check out the latest review in the March 1st issue of @CircRes by Drs. Pfleger & Vagnozzi about "Early Career Research Support from the #AHA: To the Second Century and Beyond" at: ahajrnls.org/3UhwQz7
@VagnozziRJ @Jess4genes
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Please read our piece about the incredible impact of AHA Early Career funding 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
@AHAScience @CircRes @AHA_Research @American_Heart
Replying to @American_Heart
@American_Heart grants launched my research career & introduced me to an incredible community. So honored to contribute this @CircRes Centennial Collection piece with @Jess4genes where we discuss AHA EC funding & its impact:👉 ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/… @BCVSearlyCareer @AHAScience
Mason Wheeler retweeted
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Good to see @TIME writing about something that many of us have known for a long time. #Diabetes increases #HeartFailure. The piece starts by noting, heart failure is an "under appreciated complication of diabetes". Spread the word, prevent and investigate
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