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Webinar Featuring Dr. Art Yurdagul
Webinar Featuring Dr. Art Yurdagul Dr. Art Yurdagul Assistant Professor LSU Health Shreveport The webinar took place on August 7, 2025 Dr. Art Yurdagul, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, at LSU Health Shreveport presented his talk, “Impaired Putrescine Synthesis Drives Smooth Muscle Cell Dedifferentiation and Worsens Features of Plaque Instability” Click here to access the recording Categories…
Read MoreCallie Kwartler, PhD
Callie Kwartler, PhD August 1, 2025 Professor Bioengineering University of Maryland Primary Research: The goal of my laboratory is to understand how integrated biomechanical and biochemical factors contribute to cardiovascular disease, with the purpose of discovering how all people can achieve sustainable cardiovascular health. To achieve this goal, we create innovative 3D in vitro…
Read MoreAlisa Clyne, PhD
Alisa Clyne, PhD July 1, 2025 Professor Bioengineering University of Maryland Primary Research: The goal of my laboratory is to understand how integrated biomechanical and biochemical factors contribute to cardiovascular disease, with the purpose of discovering how all people can achieve sustainable cardiovascular health. To achieve this goal, we create innovative 3D in vitro…
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Webinar Featuring Dr. Harry Karmouty-Quintana Dr. Harry Karmouty-Quintana Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology McGovern Medical School UT Health Houston The webinar took place on June 5, 2025 Dr. Harry Karmouty-Quintana, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at McGovern Medical School, UT Health Houston, presented his talk entitled, “Sugar-coated…
Read MoreMabruka Alfaidi, MD, PhD
Mabruka Alfaidi, MD, PhD June 1, 2025 Assistant Professor University of Nebraska Medical Center Primary Research: Interleukin-1 regulation of cell phenotype transformation, including endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in coronary artery disease and pulmonary hypertension. Laboratory web site URL: https://alfaidiresearch.group/ Recent Presentations: 2025 GRC Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Disease. Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Cardiovascular Disease and…
Read MoreArt Yurdagul, Jr.
Art Yurdagul, Jr., Ph.D. Assistant Professor LSUHSC-Shreveport Research Interests:Â Â My research centers on the mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease, with a primary focus on atherosclerosis progression and regression. A key area of interest is the dynamic behavior of vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs) and their role in plaque stability. During atherosclerosis, vSMCs undergo phenotypic changes that…
Read MoreMorgan Salmon
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…
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Webinar Featuring Dr. Walter Lee Murfee Walter Lee Murfee, Ph. D. Associate Professor J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Florida, Gainesville The webinar took place on May 1, 2025 Walter Lee Murfee, Ph. D., J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville will present his talk, “Re-Discovering…
Read MoreCallie Kwartler
Callie Kwartler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Research Interests:Â My lab works on molecular and epigenetic mechanisms driving smooth muscle cell fate specification and to assess how those pathways or chromatin remodeling changes are altered in patients with moyamoya disease. Moyamoya disease (MMD), characterized by bilateral progressive stenosis and…
Read MoreElisa Boscolo
Elisa Boscolo, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Research Interests: In vitro and in vivo models of vascular malformations and vascular tumors, TIE2 and GNAQ signaling, translational research NAVBO Activities: Member since 2007; Councilor – 2021-2024; Growth & Enrichment Committee, 2024-present; Meritorious Awards Committee,…
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