With support from @American_Heart, postdoctoral associate Mark Renton will explore how obesity impacts pannexin-1's regulation of blood flow in coronary microvascular disease.
Read about his research project ⤵️
news.vt.edu/articles/2025/03…
🎉 Match Day 2025
We're excited to welcome Farwah Iqbal and Valentyna (Valia) Kostiuk to the Stanford Vascular Surgery fam! Congratulations and welcome to the farm! 🌲
#Match2025
A @Zoom reunion of Zeta Beta Tau alumni led to the creation of a new fellowship for graduate student researchers. The first recipient will use the funding to study insulin resistance in cardiovascular disease.
Read more: news.vt.edu/articles/2024/12…
Ph.D. candidate Mason Wheeler received a Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from the @nih_nhlbi! She’ll use the funds to study molecular pathways leading to diabetic heart disease.
📰 Full story on her research: news.vt.edu/articles/2024/10….
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@Jess4genes will study the connection between high-fat diet Type 2 diabetes/heart disease with funding from a new, five-year, $2.5 million grant from the @nih_nhlbi, part of the @NIH 🍕🫀
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news.vt.edu/articles/2024/05…
We're excited to announce our 2024 Roanoke STEM Goes Red Chairs - Veronica van Montfrans, PhD with @virginia_tech and Jessica Pfleger, PhD with @FralinBiomed! Thank you for helping bring STEM to so many young women in the region! #GoRedNoke#STEMGoesRed
Check out the latest review in the March 1st issue of @CircRes by Drs. Pfleger & Vagnozzi about "Early Career Research Support from the #AHA: To the Second Century and Beyond" at: ahajrnls.org/3UhwQz7@VagnozziRJ@Jess4genes
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Good to see @TIME writing about something that many of us have known for a long time. #Diabetes increases #HeartFailure. The piece starts by noting, heart failure is an "under appreciated complication of diabetes". Spread the word, prevent and investigate
time.com/6548044/heart-failu…