Dec 2025 – At 2025 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Georgios (Drosatos lab) won a travel award for presenting his work "Inhibition of a cardioprotective miR family by cardiomyocyte KLF5 via 3 circular RNAs".

Dec 2025 – Dr. Kranias and collaborators report Cardiotropic AAV gene therapy for heart failure: a phase 1 trial.

Dec 2025 – NIH/NIGMS is granting Dr. Hong a major research award to study Fundamental properties of circadian rhythms.

Dec 2025 – NIH/NHLBI is granting Dr. Gao a major research award to study Stress regulated RNA degradation in cardiac hypertrophy.

Dec 2025 – The team and collaborators report that Reduced plasma levels of Copine 5 correlate with sepsis-induced vascular leakage and mortality in human patients and a murine sepsis model.

Dec 2025 – Davey (Alles lab) received a Physiology Professional Development Award from the Kline Endowment Fund to attend the meeting of the US Association for the Study of Pain in Philadelphia.

Dec 2025 – Corbin (Kalfa lab) received a Physiology Professional Development Award from the Kline Endowment Fund to attend the combined meeting of the Red Cell Club and East-West Iron Club in Baltimore.

Dec 2025 – Gautam (Prasad lab) received a Pharmacology Professional Development Award to attend the meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Denver.

Dec 2025 – Anhar (Mizuno lab) received a Computational Professional Development Award to attend the American Conference on Pharmacometrics in Aurora, CO.

Dec 2025 – Lance received a Computational Professional Development Award to attend the meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Denver.

Dec 2025 – Immaculeta (Zimmermann lab) received a Computational Professional Development Award to visit the laboratory of her collaborator at Cornell University for computational training.

Dec 2025 – In the volume "Global Health Care Equivalency in the Age of Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine and Artificial Intelligence", the group reports on Development of universal medical millirobots.

Dec 2025 – Dr. Yang (Fan lab) has received a two-year postdoctoral fellowship award from the American Heart Association for his project "Lcn10-Cd44 axis in macrophage efferocytosis and cardiac I/R injury".

Dec 8, 2025 – Mark Verba (Lu lab) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Chromatin remodeler Znhit1 controls angiogenic programs to safeguard retinal and cerebral vascular integrity".

Dec 15, 2025 – Drew Howard (Thompson lab) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Structural and functional studies of the anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) procomplex".

Thank you Chet Closson!

Dec 2025 – Chet has now spent 20 years at UC, helping to set up the PPN Live Microscopy Core and helping us with state-of-the-art equipment.

Dec 18, 2025 – Felicia Gooden (Taylor lab) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation "Individualizing methotrexate pharmacotherapy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: the impact of SLCO1B1".

Dec 10, 2025 – Distinguished Lecturer Choogon Lee, PhD (Florida State University) discussed the "Genetic basis of sleep cycles and sleep disorders".

Dec 3, 2025 –In the student-organized seminar series, Alex Kuhn (Wohleb lab) discussed "The neurobiological effects of stress: a circuit-specific view".

Dec 2025 – Madison (shown; Cebrian lab), Luis (Phoenix lab), and collaborators report that Endothelial transcription factor EB protects against doxorubicin-induced endothelial toxicity and cardiac dysfunction.

Dec 2025 – Dr. Mackenzie introduces himself with an article Advances: Serving physiology educators, scholars, and students.

Dec 2025 – Olukunle (Quattrocelli and Molkentin labs) received a Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association  to investigate the role of LRRC14B in the heart.

Dec 2025 – In the volume "Quantitative Systems Pharmacology", Dr. Zhang reviews Integrating QSP and ML to facilitate drug development and personalized medicine.

Dec 2025 – Dr. Chella Krishnan has been honored in the College of Medicine's Gallery of Awardees, which honors faculty for their successes in external funding.

Dec 2025 – The group (Dr. Kirley, pictured) reports the Synthesis and characterization of a functional benzoylecgonine – bovine serum albumin conjugate for quantification of a humanized monoclonal anti-cocaine antibody.