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Charlie Thel

 Like other organs, the heart forms scar tissue in response to stress or injury. Cardiac fibroblasts are the cells in the heart responsible for regulating production and degradation of scar […] Read More

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Lei Gao

Our nervous system is wired with extraordinary precision during development, but after injury, it often fails to repair itself. One major reason is that the molecular signals guiding axon growth […] Read More

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Sumin Hong

In the Zheng Lab, Sumin Hong is developing computational tools to analyze endothelial cell (EC) behavior in 3D brain microvessels following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Her work focuses on creating […] Read More

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Janie Johnson

Biological sex plays a role in meniscus injury and regeneration: females experience more tears and worse repair outcomes. As a first year graduate student in the Robinson Lab, Janie Johnson […] Read More

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Brenda Garibay

With an ISCRM fellowship award, Brenda Garibay investigates whether HP1BP3, an H1-like histone protein, is essential for epigenetic memory in heterochromatin. Using human iPSCs, she aims to uncover how HP1BP3 […] Read More