Fall Updates

A lot has happened over the summer…

– Owen Smith passed his qualifying exam, so is now free to spend the next [insert random number between 3 and 10] years completing his PhD studies in the Biochemistry program.

– Our paper on TPP-conjugated nitrolinoleate came out online in Br. J. Pharmacol. This will be part of a special edition on mitochondrial drug targeting in the cardiovascular system, out soon.

– This month (September) have a visiting grad’ student (Rebecca Parodi-Rullan) from Sabzali Javadov’s lab at University of Puerto Rico. Rebecca is here on an SFRBM mini fellowship learning mouse heart perfusion and in-vivo surgery techniques.

– We also have Marcin Karcz, resident in the Department of Anesthesiology, completing some of the research component of his residency this fall.

– Jimmy Zhang (MD/PhD student) completed his rotation project on drug screening in primary mouse cardiomyocytes, so now we’re plowing through reams of data!

– Our joint-PI RO1 with Keith Nerkhe, on mitochondrial K+ channels (renewal of GM-087483) received a decent score at study section, so now we have to wait and see if it will get funded.

– Our minus 80 blew up and had to be replaced (goodbye slush-fund).