It’s been a slow summer so far in the lab, but we’ve had a few personnel changes and other things to update…<\/p>\n
– Marcin Karcz finished his 1 year research residency funded by FAER<\/a>, and has now moved on to a cardiac anesthesia fellowship at Columbia NY.<\/p>\n – We have a new lab’ tech, James Miller, who joins us from the Department for Oral Biology.<\/p>\n – Our new post-doc’ fellow Yves Wang started July 1.\u00a0 Yves joins us from Case Western in Cleveland, where he’s worked on cardiac imaging until now.<\/p>\n – We’re having “fun” trying to get stuff published.\u00a0 Currently we have 3 papers out there going through the wringer – one on anesthetic preconditioning, one on SIRT1 and cardiac metabolism, and another on autophagy.<\/p>\n – We filed a provisional patent on one of our drugs that protects the heart from IR injury when delivered at the moment of reperfusion, at a concentration of only 10 nM!\u00a0 The paper on this is being written up for submission in the fall.<\/p>\n – Too many awesome meetings this year…. Jimmy & Sergiy at the AHA BCVS<\/a> meeting in New Orleans this month. Paul & Owen are going to the TRiMAD <\/a>meeting in State College PA this November. Paul is also presenting at the APS Physiological Bioenergetics <\/a>meeting in Tampa in September, and the MiP bioenergetics workshop<\/a> in Greenville NC in August, and attending the Society for Heart & Vascular Metabolism (SHVM<\/a>) meeting in NY in October. That’s not counting the AHA sessions and SFRBM Annual meeting, both in November. This has been a seriously big year for conferences!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a slow summer so far in the lab, but we’ve had a few personnel changes and other things to update… – Marcin Karcz finished his 1 year research residency funded by FAER, and has now moved on to … Continue reading