Kudos | July 2024

Faculty

Geoffrey W. Abbott, PhD – Contributing author of Cardiovascular Research article “Crucial role for sensory nerves and Na/H exchanger inhibition in dapagliflozin and empagliflozin-induced arterial relaxation” July 26, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvae156

Huw Davies, PhD – Corresponding author of Journal of Materials Chemistry B article “Administration sequence- and formation-dependent vaccination using acid-degradable polymeric nanoparticles with high antigen encapsulation capability” July 10, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d3tb02834h

Philip L. Felgner, PhD – Senior and corresponding author of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article “The 60-year evolution of lipid nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery” July 4, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41573-024-00977-6

Todd C. Holmes, PhD – Contributing author of Genome Research article “Single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals a dystrophic trajectory following a developmental bifurcation of myoblast cell fates in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy” June 25, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.278717.123

Lan Huang, PhD – Contributing author of PNAS article “Huntingtin contains an ubiquitin-binding domain and regulates lysosomal targeting of mitochondrial and RNA-binding proteins” August 6, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2319091121

Senior and corresponding author of Journal of Proteome Research article “DSBSO-Based XL-MS Analysis of Breast Cancer PDX Tissues to Delineate Protein Interaction Network in Clinical Samples” August 2, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00832

Vladimir Kefalov, PhD, and Philip D. Kiser, PharmD, PhD – Contributing authors of Nature Communications article “A combination treatment based on drug repurposing demonstrates mutation-agnostic efficacy in pre-clinical retinopathy models” July 15, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50033-5

Devon Lawson, PhD – Recipient of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) pilot grant as PI, titled “Health Disparities and Early-Onset HER2+ Breast Cancer in Vietnamese Women”.

Francesco Marangoni, PhD – Recipient of the P30 Skin Center Seed Grant ($40K) as PI titled, “Spatiotemporal analysis of tissue-remodeling macrophage pool formation during skin wound healing”.

Eric Pearlman, PhD – Recipient of the fungal pathogenesis R01 grant renewal (#1R01EY036478-01) as PI. This is a 4-year renewal of a grant that has been funded for the past 14 years. Francesco Marangoni, PhD, and Francesco Tombola, PhD, are co-Is on the grant.

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, PhD – Corresponding author of Antioxidants article “Administration of Bicarbonate Protects Mitochondria, Rescues Retinal Ganglion Cells, and Ameliorates Visual Dysfunction Caused by Oxidative Stress” June 19, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox13060743

Labs

Hicks Lab

Olga Jaime Orozco (Graduate Student) – Recipient of the CSU Pre-Professor Program (UCI-PREPP) award.

Marangoni Lab

Shannon Geels (Graduate Student) – Recipient of the Best Poster award at the Immunology LA Meeting on June 28^th.

Skowronska-Krawczyk Lab

Emily Tom (MSTP Student) – Recipient of the Best Poster award at the Phospholipids in Aging and Disease FASEB Conference.

Wagar Lab

Suhas Sureshchandra (Postdoctoral Scholar) – Recipient of the Best Speaker award at the Immunology LA Meeting on June 28th.

Mahina Mitul (Graduate Student) – Recipient of the Immunology T32 training grant; Recipient of the Student Abstract award at The International Symposium on EBV & KSHV, Related Agents & Diseases Meeting.

Erika Joloya (Graduate Student) – Selected to join the UCI School of Medicine Student and Postdoctoral Advisory Council (S-PAC) as the student representative for the Department of Physiology & Biophysics.