The paper is entitled “Genetic regulation of circular RNA expression in human aortic smooth muscle cells and vascular traits” and was published in the American Society of Human Genetics Journal HGG Advances. His co-first author, Dillon Lue, was an undergraduate research student in the Civelek Lab for four years. He is now a PhD student in Computer Science at Princeton University.

Drs. Civelek, Abebayehu, and Sheybani of the Department of Biomedical Engineering organized the inaugural Emerging Leaders in Biomedical Engineering symposium with grant support on increasing faculty diversity from the Provost’s Office.

Dr. Civelek is a member of the leadership team who received a “Driving Change Award” from Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This award aims to change the teaching and learning environment for STEM majors at UVA. You can read more about it here.