Spring 2020
January 7, 2020
“Regulation of Cardiac Gene Expression and Function by miRNAs”
Da-Zhi Wang, PhD
Professor
Basic and Translational Cardiovascular Research
Department of Cardiology
Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
January 14, 2020
“Why Moms and Dads Should Exercise: Molecular Discoveries of the Beneficial Effects of Parental Exercise on Offspring Health”
Laurie Goodyear, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Section Head and Senior Investigator
Joslin Diabetes Center
Harvard Medical School
January 21, 2020
T-32 Postdoctoral Training Grant WIP Seminar
“Redox Regulation of Ischemic Limb Vascularization”
Beatriz Ferran Perez, PhD
Mentor: Reiko Matsui, MD
January 28, 2020
“Pluripotent Stem Cells to Model Lung Development and Disease”
Darrell Kotton, MD
David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)
Boston University and Boston Medical Center
February 11, 2020
“Systems Approach to Target Discovery for Macrophage-mediated Vascular Inflammation”
Masanori Aikawa, MD, PhD
Yoshihiro Miwa Associate Chair & Founding Director
Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences
Principal Investigator, Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
February 18, 2020
T-32 Postdoctoral Training Grant WIP Seminar
“Crosstalk Between Cardiac Fibroblasts and Myeloid Cells Low Fli1 and Effects on Cardiac Fibrosis”
Fatima El Adili, MD
Mentor: Andrea Bujor, MD, PhD
“The Role of Microglial-Mediated PVN Inflammation in Gαi2 Protein Dependent Salt Sensitive Hypertension”
Jesse Moreira, MS
Mentor: Richard Wainford, PhD
March 3, 2020
“Turning Trash to Treasure: Targeting non-coding RNAs in Vascular Disease”
Mark W. Feinberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Program in Cardiovascular RNA Biology
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
March 17, 2020
“The Grant as a Mechanism for Program Building: Finding the Secret Sauces Needed to Create a Feast”
Susan Cheng, MD, MMSc, MPH
Director, Public Health Research
Smidt Heart Institute Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
May 12, 2020
“The Lymphatic System in Disease Progression”
Dennis Jones, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
May 18, 2020
T-32 Postdoctoral Training Grant WIP Seminar
“A Newly Identified Role For Piezo1 In Bone Marrow Megakaryocyte Lineage Expansion and Platelet Biogenesis”
Christina War, PhD
Mentor: Katya Ravid, DSc
“Programmed High-Density Lipoprotein Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery to Cancer Cells and Macrophages”
Clive Baveghems, PhD
Mentor: Olga Gursky, PhD
May 26, 2020
“Translational intravascular inflammation imaging to predict atherosclerosis progression and stent complications”
Farouc Jaffer, MD PhD
Director, Coronary Intervention and Chronic Total Occlusion PCI Program
Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
June 30, 2020
T-32 Postdoctoral Training Grant WIP Seminar
“The Effects of Electronic Cigarettes on Measures of Vascular Function”
Sana Majid, MD
Mentor: Naomi Hamburg, MD