2013 News Archive
Congratulations! to Qiming Duan who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on December
20, 2013, "Cardiac Na/K-ATPase in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Cardioprotection"
Advisor: Dr. Sandrine Pierre
Congratulations! to Moumita Banerjee who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on
November 14, 2013, "A Model for Domain-Specific Regulation of Src Kinase by Alpha-1
Subunit of Na/K-ATPase" Advisor: Dr. Zi-Jian Xie
Congratulations! to Jian Wu who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on November
1, 2013, "Role of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase a (P13Ka) in Ouabain-induced Cardiac Signaling
and Hypertrophy" Advisor: Dr. Lijun Liu
Congratulations! to Varunkumar Pandey who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on August
28, 2013, "The effect of glucocorticoids on regulation of the human angiotensinogen
gene and blood pressure." Advisor: Dr. Ashok Kumar.
Congratulations! to Dr. Meenakshi Kaw, Assistant Professor, and newly appointed faculty
member in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.
Welcome! to Dr. Ahmad Mushtaq, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics,
Khyber Medical College in Peshawar, Pakistan. Dr. Mushtaq is sponsored by a Khyber
Medical College Visiting Scholar program, a long standing exchange program between
the College of Medicine and Khyber Medical College that is sponsored by Dr. S. Amjad
Hussain. Dr. Mushtaq will be working with Dr. Guillermo Vazquez for the next 3 months.
Welcome! to Danielle Rice...SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) in the
laboratory of Dr. Guillermo Vazquez. Danielle will receive training in techniques used to study mechanisms of endoplasmic
reticulum stress-induced apoptosis in coronary endothelium.
Dr. Jennifer Hill wins Early Investigators Award for research on women's health... one of eight recipients of a 2013 Early Investigators Award from the Endocrine Society...
Sumit Ranjan Monu successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 13th, "Heme oxygenase system in myocardial
infarction and post ischemic renal dysfunction." Advisor: Dr. Nader Abraham
Xiaoliang Qiu successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 11th, "Kiss1 neurons and metabolic
sensing." Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Hill
Lance Stechschulte successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 4th, "The co-chaperones FKBP51 and
PP5 control nuclear receptor phosphorylation and adipogenesis." Advisor: Dr. Edwin
Sanchez