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First time users at the Chicago Beamline since the upgrade! Glad to have the Kass mechanics duo on the team! Shout out to Marcus and Vivek.

He’s almost done!!! Congratulations Vivek Jani- on getting permission to defend. We are super excited for you and miss you already.

Congratulations Navid Koleini on being the winner of the Thompson Excellence in Basic Research Award!

Happy birthday Vivek! We celebrate you and your last year as a PhD candidate 🤞🫣😉

Celebrating the birthday of our fearless leader with his favorite Punschtorte 🍰

Congratulations on your next big adventure in medical school! You will be missed!

Happy Birthdays to June, Lorena, Mark and Kim! And congratulations to Abby for receiving her F31 grant! Nothing better than an opera cake to bring everyone together to celebrate.

Thanks to our lab members Mohammad and Navid who both presented their work at our ICS Fellows Research Meeting this past month!

Happy birthday Mohammad! Thanks for being a joy in the lab. You are always full of surprises, such as when your birthday is…

Congratulations to Sumita and Brian who are starting faculty positions in the next few months! We wish you all the best with your next endeavors!

Happy Birthday Navid! Everyone was excited about the Spanish fruit cake- you chose well!

Thanks to our summer undergraduates Eli and Angela!

BCVS Day 3: Amazing science. Proud of you all!

Day 2 at BCVS: Congratulations to Edwin and Navid for sharing their respective work on the discrepancies between gene and protein expression in HFpEF

Congrats Vivek- first day of BCVS posters for the Kass lab

Happy birthday to our no.1 technician! Thanks for your amazing work!

Since its debut in 2003, these awards have been presented to outstanding scientists including 14 Nobel laureates. That tradition of excellence continues with this year’s recipients — chosen among 42 amazing candidates nominated by the AHA’s 16 Scientific Councils.

Congratulations Dr. Kass and all honorees, who will be formally recognized at Scientific Sessions in Chicago this November.

This Saturday was bittersweet! Grace will be leaving our lab to be Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago! While we will miss her here we look forward to seeing all the great things we know she will accomplish!

Celebrating Imran's last day, Brittany's thesis defense, Will's birthday, and Brian's grant.

A fond farewell to Joy and Alex. Best of luck in med school!

Our very own, Brittany Dunkerly-Eyring, will be moving on to her new job soon!

We bid a fond farewell to Megen, our wonderful administrative coordinator!

David sighted! First sighting in 330 days

ABC7 News spoke with Dr. David Kass, Abraham and Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins researchers have been looking at the risks associated with the coronavirus and new findings published in the medical journal Lancet, which shows groups who are potentially more susceptible to getting COVID-19. Kass is the author of that study and discussed if there is a connection between obesity and COVID-19 infections.
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Sumita and Brian are finalists in the W. Leigh Thompson excellence in research award!

Goodbye and good luck, Christian and Nandhini. We wish you guys the best!

Some Kwon lab shots, because we're graceful winners.

Happy Birthday to Brian and Nandhini!!🎉🎊 Kass Lab October Birthdays!!

AHA Strategic Focus Network meeting discussing our Go Red for Women bench-to-bedside-to-population study of sex differences in HFpEF!!!

Mike conquers the sawgani crab at Dong's Farewell Luncheon!

A bitter sweet farewell to Dong Lee! Our lab manager and great contributor to research! Best of luck!

Congratulations to Imran for winning 1st place New Investigator Award at HFSA2019!

Undergraduate, Maria, and her summer mentor, Christian, posing with Maria's poster at the Johns Hopkins CARES symposium.

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Fond Farewell to Sumita and Brian

We bid a fond farewell to Drs. Sumita Mishra and Brian Lin, as they continue on their scientific careers as Assistant Professors!...

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Vivek wins the 2022 Melvin Marcus Award; David wins the Distinguished Scientist Award at the AHA.

Vivek Jani wins 2022 Melvin Marcus Award from American Heart Association for his terrific study unraveling mechanisms of heterogeneous RV...

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Kass Lab (past and present) was well-represented at conferences in 2022!

ISHR World Congress in Berlin, Germany (Current: Brian Lin; Past: Christian Oeing, Mark Ranek) New Directions in Fort Lauderdale, FL...

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Fond Farewell to Sumita and Brian

Vivek wins the 2022 Melvin Marcus Award; David wins the Distinguished Scientist Award at the AHA.

Kass Lab (past and present) was well-represented at conferences in 2022!

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