Brian Lin is a finalist for the W. Leigh Thompson Award

Research Retreat Recap

Brian (Kass Lab) and Priya (Anderson Lab) are finalists for the W. Leigh Thompson Award

W. Leigh Thompson Award

Basic Research Faculty Finalists:

Reyhan Westbrook, PhD: Altered Metabolome in Frailty Link Chronic Inflammation to Functional Decline

Noton Dutta, PhD: Adjunctive host-directed therapy with statins improves tuberculosis-related outcomes in mice and humansPriya Umapathi, MD: Excessive O-GlcNAcylation causes heart failure

Basic Research Fellow Finalists:

Mohanraj Sadasivam, PhD: PD-1+CD3+CD4-CD8- (double negative T-cells) are early responders during kidney ischemia reperfusion injury and regulated by non-classical MHC molecules

Brian Lin, PhD: Pharmacological and genetic inhibition of Transient Receptor Potential Canonical 6 (TRPC6) as a novel treatment for heart failureand Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)

Eric Tuday, DO: Degradation of miR-181b by the Translin/Trax complex mediates vascular stiffening