Katya Ravid, DSc New Grant
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ravid on her new grant! Grant Number RO1HL158670 Project Title Megakaryocyte Mechanosensing Toward Platelet Biogenesis Project Period September 1, 2021 – 7/31/2025
Congratulations Dr. Katya Ravid on AHA Grant
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Katya Ravid on her latest grant from the American Heart Association. To read the full news release please visit the AHA’s website. Cancer-Associated Thromboembolism as Affected by Health Disparities (CAT-HD) at Boston University School of Medicine Center – led by Katya Ravid, D.Sc., a professor of medicine, biochemistry […]
Katya Ravid Named Inaugural Incumbent, Barbara E. Corkey Professor of Medicine
Katya Ravid, DSc, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, has been selected as the inaugural incumbent of the Barbara E. Corkey Professor of Medicine. Dr. Ravid is nationally and internationally recognized for seminal discoveries in the field of megakaryocyte and platelet biology. Early in her career, she discovered a unique transcriptional signature consisting of several non-tissue […]
Dr. Jingyan Han publication
Congratulations to Dr. Jingyan Han on her publication in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, section Cardiovascular Metabolism. Alcohol binge drinking selectively stimulates protein S- glutathionylation in aorta and liver of ApoE −/− mice, by Kerstin Seidel, Xueping Wan, Mo Zhang, Yuxiang Zhou, Mengwei Zang, Jingyan Han. Article Link
National Academy of Inventors Election
Congratulations to Joyce Wong, PhD on her election the National Academy of Inventors. BU Today Article Link
Whitaker Cardiovascular Pilot Grant Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Pilot Grant! Beatriz Ferran Perez, PhD Jena Goodman, PhD Kiyoung Kim, Phd Albin Oh, MD Kerstin Seidel, PhD Eugene Saw, PhD Yuko Tsukahara, PhD
DOM/Evans Days 2020 Award Winners
CONGRATULATIONS to the following award recipients: Citizenship Award Mike Kirber, PhD – Research Implementation Research Mentoring Award Katya Ravid, DSc – Cardiovascular Medicine Evans Center IBR Research Collaborator of the Year Award Jessica Fetterman, PhD – Vascular Biology Vijaya Kolachalama, PhD – Computational Biomedicine
June 2019: Grant Announcements
June 14, 2019 Grant Number: 1R01HL145985-01A1 Principal Investigator(s): Flora Sam, MD Project Title: Mechanistic underpinnings of increased adipose tissue in HFpEF Project Period: 07/01/2019 – 06/30/2023 June 14, 2019 Grant Number: 1R21AA026922-01A1 Principal Investigator(s):JINGYAN HAN, PHD Project Title: Alcohol-induced dysregulation of thiol homeostasis and endothelial function Project Period: 05/15/2019 – 04/30/2021
WCVI 2019 Pilot Grant Announcement
WCVI 2019 Pilot Grant Announcement Congratulations to David Pimentel, MD and Markus Bachschmid, PhD (who submitted a combined proposal) and Frank Naya, PhD (on the Charles River Campus) for having been awarded the 2019 WCVI Pilot awards. Each Award is worth $25,000 for one year. “C-Terminal BNP as a novel marker of Cardiac dysfunction” David […]
Franco Puleo wins American Physiological Society’s Porter Fellowship
May 20, 2019 Franco Puleo, a PhD student in the Wainford Lab, has been awarded an American Physiological Society’s Porter Fellowship that includes a full year stipend. Project title: “Sympathetic nervous system regulation of the NCC in salt sensitive hypertension” American Physiological Society’s Porter Fellowship.