Morgan Salmon, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Research Interests: Dr. Salmon and her team broadly seek to understand mechanisms that regulate aortic aneurysm formation, progression and rupture in abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysms. Dr. Salmon’s team has been on the forefront of helping develop novel models of chronic, thrombotic aneurysm formation that mimics human disease progression and to use these models to investigate novel pathways that might develop treatment therapies to halt disease progression or prevent rupture. Dr. Salmon’s research interests include investigation of epigenetic mechanisms that alter aortic aneurysm growth and that affect smooth muscle, endothelial or adventitial cell marker expression in aortic aneurysms. She is also interested in the role of zinc-finger proteins in transcriptional regulation of smooth muscle cells in aortic aneurysms. As part of these investigations, she has become interested in using lineage tracking systems to follow the localization and expression of various resident cell populations during aneurysm progression. Her current work focuses on the role of mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolism in aortic aneurysm formation.
NAVBO Activities:
Vascular Biology Oral Presentation (2019)
Vascular Biology poster presentation (2017, 2022)
Vascular Biology Publications Alert Editor (2018-2025)
Poster Judge Vascular Biology (2020)
Chair of Communities Committee (2022-2024)
Related Experience:
2022-present Working Group Lead, Frankel Cardiovascular Center
2022 IVBM Epigenetics Session Co-chair
2021-present CHIP Biobank Steering Committee Member
2021 Co-Organizer, FASEB Aortic Aneurysm Catalyst Conference
February 2021 American Society of Matrix Biology Virtual Conference “Fibroblast Cell Phenotypic Changes in Development and Disease”
2020-2021 Utah NRMN Grant Writing Coaching Groups Study member
2020 CREiGS Participant and Scholarship Recipient
2019-present Editor, Journal of Human Physiology
2019-present Editor, International Journal of Clinical Medicine Research
2020-present Editor, Current Metabolomics and System Biology
2022 Guest Editor for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Advancements in diagnosis, biomarkers, drug therapeutics, surgical and endovascular treatment Volume I in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
2022- Associate Editor in Aortic Surgery and Endovascular Repair Fronters in Cardiovascular Medicine
2022- Guest Associate Editor in General Cardiovascular Medicine
2022- Associate Editor in Inflammation
2017-2019 Reviewer, ASCB Abstracts for National Meeting
2020-2021 Competition Judge, Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair
Head Judge Biochemistry 2020
Best in Show Judge 2020
2021 Competition Judge, Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair; Biochemistry section Judge
2021-2025 Regeneron International Talent Scholarship Judge
2021-2025 SURF Undergraduate Summer Student Program Reviewer
2022, 2023,2024 Michigan State Science Fair Molecular Biology section Judge
2011-2017 Program Reviewer and Mentor, Summer Research Internship Program targeting under-represented groups for the Sciences, Charlottesville, VA
2023-2024 ASSET Summer research internship for students from historically minority colleges
GRANT REVIEW POSITIONS
2022,2023 AHA Fellowship Vascular 1 Review Board Member
2022-2025 AHA Innovation Award IPA Basic Cell Sciences Committee Review Board Member
2023-2025 AHA Career Development Award Basic Cell Sciences committee Review Board Member
2023-2024 AHA Second Century Early Career Committee Review Board Member
2023 NIH NHLBI AVI Study section ECR review program