Diana Albarracin, third-year BME student, and Zhiwen Xu, second-year Biology student were awarded the Harrison Undergraduate Research Award. This is an award given to only 40 undergraduate students around the university every year. This is the second time Zhiwen won this award. Diana joins Lisa, Rita, Ngozi, Dillon, and Zhiwen as the latest Harrison Awardees. Congratulations to all of them.
UVA’s student newspaper Cavalier Daily featured our lab’s research in an article. You can read it here.
You can listen to the podcast highlighting Dr. Aherrahrou’s paper recently published in Circulation Research here.
Dr. Civelek was interviewed for a news spot highlighting Dr. Aherrahrou’s paper. Check out the interview here.
Dr. Redouane Aherrahrou published his paper entitled “Genetic regulation of atherosclerosis-relevant phenotypes in human vascular smooth muscle cells” in Circulation Research. You can read about the work here.
Rita Anane-Wae, Dillon Lue, and Zhiwen Xue put their efforts together and created The Genomics Society of UVA, hoping to promote undergraduate research. You can read about it here.
American Heart Association’s Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB) awarded Dr. Mete Civelek with its Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Award for his mentorship of students who are underrepresented in STEM and his efforts in creating an equitable and inclusive climate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Redouane Aherrahrou’s paper “Genetic Regulation of Atherosclerosis-Relevant Phenotypes in Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells” was selected for the American Heart Association’s Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine Early Career Award. He will present his paper during the 2020 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
Dr. Warren Anderson published his paper entitled “Sex differences in human adipose tissue gene expression and genetic regulation involve adipogenesis” in Genome Research.
