Dr. Angie Serrano was awarded one of five prestigious Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar transition grants! Congratulations Angie! The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars is a recently established program, now in its second year, that will support individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an MD or PhD degree and who have completed a minimum of three…
Dr. Chelsea Herdman was awarded a three year postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2020-2023) for her project entitled “The roles of microRNAs in the regulation of heart development and human congenital heart disease” https://www.canada.ca/en/institutes-health-research/news/2019/05/government-of-canada-invests-in-top-research-leaders-of-tomorrow.html
Dr. Angie Serrano has been awarded a 2 year AHA Postdoctoral Grant for the project “The roles of Kmt2d in vasculogenesis.” – July 2018 – June 2020 https://professional.heart.org/idc/groups/ahamah-public/@wcm/@sop/@rsch/documents/downloadable/ucm_432213.pdf
Inhibition of Notch signaling rescues cardiovascular development in Kabuki Syndrome Kabuki Syndrome patients have a spectrum of congenital disorders, including congenital heart defects, the primary determinant of mortality. Seventy percent of Kabuki Syndrome patients have mutations in the histone methyl-transferase KMT2D. However, the underlying mechanisms that drive these congenital disorders are unknown. Here, we generated…