July 2023: Welcome Blessing Musa as the Weigand Summer Intern with the McGowan Institute

June 2023: Welcome Alayna Mikush as Research Specialist in the lab

May 2023: New R01 awarded to the team R01HL162822 (Phillippi, PI and Nain, MPI) Matrix biophysics and pericyte mechanobiology in (patho)physiological angiogenesis (2023-2027); Co-Investigators: David Kaczorowski, MD and Pablo Sanchez, MD PhD

May 2023: Welcome MariaElena Norton as a summer undergraduate research student

May 2023: Congratulations to Dalia Fantini on her graduation from Pitt Bioengineering and acceptance into the NIH Post-Bacc Program

January 2023: Welcome Harsheni Sudakar to the Cardiac Research Lab as a new undergraduate student researcher

October 2022: Welcome back to Dr. Thomas Gleason to the University of Pittsburgh as Professor of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering

Spring 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Bryant Fisher on his acceptance into the PhD program in clinical and translational science in the Institute for Clinical Research Education at the University of Pittsburgh

June 2022: Congratulation to Dr. Bryant Fisher, MD for his NIH F32 Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award (2023-2025)

May 2022: Welcome Jose Cosme, PhD to the Cardiac Research Lab as a new postdoctoral research fellow

Spring 2022: Welcome Urmi Choudhary to the Cardiac Research Lab as a new undergraduate student researcher

January 2022: Welcome Sakshi Patel to the Cardiac Research Lab as a new undergraduate student researcher

December 2021: Congratulations to Kaitlyn Wintruba on her graduation from Pitt ChemE and her acceptance to the doctoral program in Bioengineering at the University of Virginia

December 2021: Welcome Weijian Huang to the Cardiac Research Lab as a visiting medical student

November 2021: The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery was awarded a new NHLBI-funded T32 grant to support research training in cardiothoracic surgery! Program Director: Dr. James Luketich; Program Co-Directors: Dr. Julie Phillippi and Dr. David Vorp

Fall 2021: Welcome Dalia Fantini to the Cardiac Research Lab as a new undergraduate student researcher

June 2021: Dr. Julie Phillippi joined the BMBI Study Section as a Chartered Member (2021-2025)

February 2021: Dr. Julie Phillippi was named the UPMC Pellegrini Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery (2/1/2021)

Patrick Chan, MD (PGY6) received an NIH F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (2017-2019)

Leonid Emerel, MD (PGY4) received a Clinician Scientist Training Program Grant from the American Heart Association (2017-2019)

Lauren Huckaby, MD received the Nina Starr Braunwald Research Fellowship Award from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation (2017-2019)

Marie Billaud, PhD received the Top Poster Award at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery’s 2017 Research Symposium

Dr. Patrick Chan received a TSDA Resident-in-Training Exam Recognition Award from the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr. Leonid Emerel received a TSDA Resident-in-Training Exam Recognition Award from the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Welcome Dr. Lauren Huckaby to the lab as a new post-doctoral research fellow!

Dr. Marie Billaud speaks with Regenerative Medicine Today Podcast #163

Dr. George Fercana receives Travel Awards from the 2016 Post-doctoral Association Data and Dine Symposium and the 2015-2016 Bridgeside Research Forum

Dr. Julie Phillippi received an R56 “Bridge Award” from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute “Engineered neovascularization of vasa vasorum”
Project period: 9/15/2015-8/31/2016
Total award: $612,830

Dr. Marie Billaud receives Travel Award from the 2015 Post-doctoral Association Data and Dine Symposium

Juli Buchwald is awarded an American Heart Association SURP Fellowship with the Vascular Medicine Institute to perform her research with Drs Gleason and Phillippi

Sarah Duplaga is awarded a University of Pittsburgh Brackenridge Summer Fellowship to perform her research with Drs Gleason and Phillippi

Dr. Thomas Gleason was promoted to Ronald V. Pellegrini Endowed Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Gleason was also named Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, effective January 1, 2015

Dr. Julie Phillippi was appointed Associate Editor with the Science family of journals Science Advances

Dr. Marie Billaud received Travel Award from the Bridgeside Research Forum for her presentation ““Expression Profile of Superoxide Dismutases and NADPH Oxidases Varies with Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm”

Dr. Julie Phillippi speaks with Regenerative Medicine Today Podcast #138

Drs Julie Phillippi, Marie Billaud and Mary Kotlarczyk attended the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA November 19-23, 2014 and gave the following presentations:

Phillippi, JA, Green, BR, Kotlarczyk, MP, Hermmann, RM, Billaud, M, Hill, JC, Murugesan, V, Cardounel, AJ, Cantu-Medellin, N, Kelley, EE, and Gleason, TG. Superoxide Generation and Oxidative Tissue Damage in Bicuspid Aortic Valve-Associated Aortopathy. Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine Annual Meeting, November 19-23, 2014. Seattle, WA. Podium presentation

Billaud, M, Phillippi, JA and Gleason, TG. Expression profile of superoxide dismutases and NADPH Oxidases Varies with Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm. Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine Annual Meeting, November 19-23, 2014. Seattle, WA. Poster presentation

Kotlarczyk, MP, Kelley, EE, Shiva, S, Phillippi, JA and Gleason, TG. Upregulation of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms Associated with Bicuspid Aortic Valve. Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine Annual Meeting, November 19-23, 2014. Seattle, WA. Poster presentation