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Laboratory of Nathan Stitziel

MD, PhD Candidate

Recent publication:

Jung, I. H., Elenbaas, J. S., Alisio, A., Santana, K., Young, E. P., Kang, C. J., Kachroo, P., Lavine, K., Razani, B., Mecham, R. P. & Stitziel, N. SVEP1 is a human coronary artery disease locus that promotes atherosclerosis. Science translational medicine. 13, 586, eabe0357.

Laboratory of Babak Razani

PhD Candidate, Molecular Cell Biology

Recent publications:

Jeong SJ, Zhang X, Rodriguez-Velez A, Evans TD, Razani B. p62/ SQSTM1 and Selective Autophagy in Cardiometabolic Diseases. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2019 Aug 20;31(6):458-471.

Zhang X, Sergin I, Evans TD, Jeong SJ, Rodriguez-Velez A, Kapoor D, Chen S, Song E, Holloway KB, Crowley JR, Epelman S, Weihl CC, Diwan A, Fan D, Mittendorfer B, Stitziel NO, Schilling JD, Lodhi IJ, Razani B. High-protein diets increase cardiovascular risk by activating macrophage mTOR to suppress mitophagy. Nat Metab. 2020 Jan;2(1):110-125.

Stitham J, Rodriguez-Velez A, Zhang X, Jeong SJ, Razani B. Inflammasomes: a preclinical assessment of targeting in atherosclerosis. Expert Opin Ther Targets. 2020 Sep;24(9):825-844. 

Laboratory of Stacey Rentschler

MD, PhD Candidate

Recent publications:

Lipovsky CE, Jimenez J, Guo Q, Li G, Yin T, Hicks SC, Bhatnagar S, Takahashi K, Zhang DM, Brumback BD, Goldsztejn U, Nadadur RD, Perez-Cervantez C, Moskowitz IP, Liu S, Zhang B, Rentschler SL. Chamber-specific transcriptional responses in atrial fibrillation. JCI Insight. 2020 Sep 17;5(18):e135319.

Amrute JM, Zhang D, Padovano WM, Kovacs SJ. E-wave Asymmetry Elucidates Diastolic Ventricular Stiffness-Relaxation Coupling: Model-based Prediction with In-vivo Validation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2020 Nov 13.