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. 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…