Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo and Samantha Morris on their new publication! Deconstructing Stepwise Fate Conversion of Human Fibroblasts to Neurons by MicroRNAs. Cates K, McCoy MJ, Kwon JS, Liu Y, Abernathy DG, Zhang B, Liu S, Gontarz P, Kim WK, Chen S, Kong W, Ho JN, Burbach KF, Gabel HW, Morris SA, Yoo AS. […]
Congratulations to Dr. Doug Covey’s Lab on their new publication! Site-specific effects of neurosteroids on GABAA receptor activation and desensitization. Sugasawa Y, Cheng WW, Bracamontes JR, Chen ZW, Wang L, Germann AL, Pierce SR, Senneff TC, Krishnan K, Reichert DE, Covey DF, Akk G, Evers AS. Elife. 2020 Sep 21;9:e55331.
Congratulations to Dr. Stacey Rentschler’s Lab on their recent publication! Chamber-specific transcriptional responses in atrial fibrillation. Lipovsky CE, Jimenez J, Guo Q, Li G, Yin T, Hicks SC, Bhatnagar S, Takahashi K, Zhang DM, Brumback BD, Goldsztejn U, Nadadur RD, Perez-Cervantez C, Moskowitz IP, Liu S, Zhang B, Rentschler SL. JCI Insight. 2020 Sep 17;5(18):e135319.
“Pharmaceutical maker Eli Lilly and Company has purchased Disarm Therapeutics, a startup biotechnology firm founded by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Disarm Therapeutics was co-founded by Jeffrey Milbrandt, MD, PhD, and Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD, to speed the development of treatments for multiple neurodegenerative conditions.” Congratulations to Dr. Aaron DiAntonio! […]
Congratulations Dr. Stacey Rentschler! Dr. Rentschler has been selected as one of 8 multi-disciplinary investigators to be funded by Additional Ventures to work together towards a cure for single ventricle heart disease using regenerative medicine approaches. Additional Ventures has committed $2 million per year for 5 years to fund this initiative.
Congratulations to Dr. Aaron DiAntonio!
Aaron DiAntonio, M.D., Ph.D., Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Developmental Biology has received a four-year $2,393,212 Javits award through the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke beginning August 1, 2020, for his project entitled “Regulation of axonal degeneration by the DLK kinase”.
Dr. Tony Tsai will be joining the Department on January 1st, 2021! “Trained as a systems developmental biologist, I am fascinated by the striking robustness of embryo development. Despite environmental fluctuations and the stochastic nature of instructive signals, cells generate tissue-scale patterns and structures in a precise and reproducible fashion. My lab aims to understand […]
Congratulations to The Center of Regenerative Medicine! Drs. Farsh Guilak and Angela Bowman, on behalf of the Center of Regenerative Medicine, have received a $1.16mil grant from NIBIB for Training in Regenerative Medicine that will provide support for 3 postdocs/year for two years.
Congratulations to Dr. Shin Imai! Shin-ichiro Imai, M.D., Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology, has been selected as 2020 International Okamoto Awardee by the Japan Research Foundation for Healthy Aging!
Congratulations to Dr. Helen McNeill! Dr. Helen McNeill, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a four-year $ 2,276,995 grant award from the NIH/NIGMS starting 8/1/2020 for her project entitled “Dissecting Fat cadherin function in vivo”