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An article titled AT₁, AT₂, and AT_1-7 receptor expression in the uteroplacental unit of normotensive and hypertensive rats during early and late pregnancy by Liliya Yamaleyeva, MD, L. A. A. Neves, K. Coveleskie, Debra Diz, PhD, Patricia Gallagher, PhD and Bridget Brosnihan, PhD appears in the June 2013 issue of the Placenta journal. Graphics corresponding to the article were selected for the cover.

Doctoral candidate Allyson Marshall competed in the ASPET Best Abstract competition at the Experimental Biology meetings and got Honorable Mention in the Integrative Systems and Translational and Clinical Pharmacology Division. She also was appointed to the APS Cardiovascular Section Trainee Committee. Her term is effective 5/1/2013 - 5/1/2016.

TanYa Gwathmey-Williams, PhD has won an award for Outstanding Abstract for the upcoming Endocrine Society meeting in June. She was also invited to give a feature poster presentation and an oral podium presentation at the meeting. In addition, she has been invited to be a speaker on the career panel for the Frontiers in Physiology session at the Experimental Biology 2013 Conference in Boston.

Alison Arter, a PhD candidate in Track 5 - Integrative Physiology & Pharmacology working with thesis advisors Drs. Ann Tallant & Patricia E. Gallagher, won first place in the Translational category at the annual Wake Forest Graduate Student & Post-Doc Research Day held March 21, 2013 for her poster titled “Angiotensin-(1-7) Attenuates Triple Negative Breast Cancer Growth and Progression Through Regulation of Protein Phosphatases.” She will receive a cash prize of $250. Brian Westwood, graduate student and former member of Dr. Mark Chappell's lab, won first place in the Analytical category.

Officials at Danville Regional Medical Center (DRMC) in Danville, VA have dedicated and named their new Clinical Education Center after Michael A. Moore, MD, a Clinical Professor of Surgical Sciences here and member of our Hypertension & Vascular Research Center. DRMC Chief Executive Officer Eric Deaton said, "In renaming this building we honor Dr. Moore's leadership and his vision; we honor his commitment to providing the highest level of graduate and continuing medical education available."

TanYa Gwathmey-Williams, PhD has received an American Physiological Society Early Career Advocacy Fellowship Award. She will be able to use this award towards the 2013 Experimental Biology meeting in Boston and the Fall 2013 Science Policy Committee meeting later this year in Bethesda, MD. Gwathmey-Williams will be representing the APS by attending meetings on Capitol Hill with members of Congress to address existing and new science policies.

Jasmina Varagic, MD, PhD has been awarded the Wake Forest School of Medicine 2013 Early Investigator in Basic Sciences Award. She was honored at the Research Awards Day in May.

Lisa Washburn, MD has been awarded the Wake Forest School of Medicine 2013 Mid-Career Investigator in Clinical Sciences Award. She was also honored at the Research Awards Day in May.

Doctoral candidate Allyson Marshall has received both an Alumni Travel Award and an ASPET Travel Award to present at the Experimental Biology 2013 Conference in Boston, MA in April 2013. She will also be competing in The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Best Abstract Competition at the meeting.

Only 12 students were selected from qualified applications to participate in the competition, including two graduate students from the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center: Alison Arter and Chris Schaich (department of Physiology & Pharmacology graduate program). 
 
Alison Arter was awarded the 1st place prize of $1,000 for her project entitled “Angiotensin-(1-7) as a First-in-Class, Targeted Inhibitor of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Growth.”
 

 

 

HVRC Faculty Receiving Grant Awards:
Sponsor: Office of the Director, NIH/Shared Instrumentation Grant
Principal Investigator: Bridget Brosnihan, PhD
Project Title: VisualSonics Vevo LAZR Photoacoustic Imaging System

Sponsor: STaRT Pilot Award
Principal Investigator: Liliya Yamaleyeva, MD, MS
Co-Investigators: Bridget Brosnihan, PhD; Mark Chappell, PhD; Carolynne McGee and Heather Mertz, MD
Project Title: Apelin and Angiotensin II interactions in human placenta in preeclampsia

Sponsor: NIH NHLBI
Co-Principal Investigators: Bridget Brosnihan, PhD and Liliya Yamaleyeva, MD, MS
Project Title: ACE2 Deficiency: A new model of maternal and fetal growth restriction

Sponsor: Wake Forest Baptist Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM) Award
Principal Investigator: John Fortunato, MD
Co-Investigators: Debra Diz, PhD; Hossam Shaltout, PhD and John Burdette, MD
Project Title: Brain transmitters/metabolites, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and brain connectivity: diagnostic strategies to study the effects of non-pharmacologic therapies for dysautonomia and chronic nausea

Sponsor: Wake Forest University Translational Science Center
Co- Principal Investigators: Jasmina Varagic, MD, PhD and Mark Chappell, PhD
Project Title: Diabetic Cardiorenal Syndrome in Estrogen-Depleted Hypertensive Rats: Role of Curcumin