Dr. Lisa VanHoose Named to COVID-19 Task Force
May 05, 2020
CGE Cohort 1 alumni, Dr. Lisa VanHoose Ph.D., Director of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at the University of Louisiana Monroe, has been named to Gov. John Bel Edwards Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. She will serve on the Health Disparities and Research subcommittee, which provides research and data regarding the disparities aligned with COVID-19.
AGOLD Scholar, Dr. Kedir Turi, Publication
April 29, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Kedir Turi, Cohort 7, on his publications, "Dose, Timing, and Spectrum of Prenatal Antibiotic Exposure and Risk of Childhood Asthma", "Infant Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis and Subsequent Risk of Pneumonia, Otitis Media, and Antibiotic Utilization", and "The current state of omics technologies in the clinical management of asthma and allergic diseases."
Turi KN, Gebretsadik T, Ding T, Abreo A, Stone C, Hartert TV, Wu P. Dose, Timing, and Spectrum of Prenatal Antibiotic Exposure and Risk of Childhood Asthma. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Jan 29. PMID: 31994697
Abreo A, Wu P, Donovan BM, Ding T, Gebretsadik T, Huang X, Stone CA Jr, Turi KN, Hartert TV. Infant Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis and Subsequent Risk of Pneumonia, Otitis Media, and Antibiotic Utilization. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Oct 21. PMID: 31630167
Donovan BM, Bastarache L, Turi KN, Zutter MM, Hartert TV. The current state of omics technologies in the clinical management of asthma and allergic diseases. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2019 Dec;123(6):550-557. Review. PMID: 31494234
AGOLD Scholar, Dr. Robert Campbell, Jr., Publication
April 28, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Campbell, Jr., AGOLD Cohort 7, for his publication, "The T9861C Mutation in the mtDNA-Encoded Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit III Gene Occurs in High Frequency but with Unequal Distribution in the Alzheimer's Disease Brain."
Castora FJ, Conyers BL, Gershon BS, Kerns KA, Campbell R, Simsek-Duran F. The T9861C Mutation in the mtDNA-Encoded Cytochrome C Oxidase Subunit III Gene Occurs in High Frequency but with Unequal Distribution in the Alzheimer's Disease Brain. J Alzheimers Dis. 2019;72(1):257-269. PMID: 31561357
AGOLD Scholar, Dr. Alexandra Noel, Publication
April 28, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Noel, AGOLD Cohort 7, on her publication, "In utero exposures to electronic-cigarette aerosols impair the Wnt signaling during mouse lung development."
This article was selected as an APSselect article for the month of April, a collection from the American Physiological Society (APS) that showcases some of the best recently published articles in physiological research.
Noël A, HansenS, ZamanA, PerveenZ, PinkstonR, HossainE, XiaoR, PennAL. 2020. In utero exposures to electronic-cigarette aerosols impair the Wnt signaling during mouse lung development. American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 318(4): L705-L722
AGOLD Scholar, Dr. Claudia Mickael, Publications
April 28, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Mickael, AGOLD Cohort 7, on her publications, "Stable isotope metabolomics of pulmonary artery smooth muscle and endothelial cells in pulmonary hypertension and with TGF-beta treatment." and "A retrospective study of schistosomiasis-associated pulmonary hypertension from an endemic area in Brazil."
Hernandez-Saavedra D, Sanders L, Freeman S, Reisz JA, Lee MH, Mickael C, Kumar R, Kassa B, Gu S, D' Alessandro A, Stenmark KR, Tuder RM, Graham BB. Stable isotope metabolomics of pulmonary artery smooth muscle and endothelial cells in pulmonary hypertension and with TGF-beta treatment. Sci Rep. 2020 Jan 15;10(1):413. PMID: 31942023
Botoni FA, Marinho CC, Carvalho VT, Mickael CS, Graham BB. A retrospective study of schistosomiasis-associated pulmonary hypertension from an endemic area in Brazil. Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc. 2019 Sep;24:100387. eCollection 2019 Sep. PubMed PMID: 31334331
AGOLD Scholar, Dr. Daniel Winnica, JCI Insight Publication
April 27, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Winnica, AGOLD Cohort 7, on his publication, " L-Citrulline increases nitric oxide and improves control in obese asthmatics"
Holguin F, Grasemann H, Sharma S, Winnica D, Wasil K, Smith V, Cruse MH, Perez N, Coleman E, Scialla TJ, Que LG. L-Citrulline increases nitric oxide and improves control in obese asthmatics. JCI Insight. 2019 Dec 19;4(24). pii: 131733. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.131733. PMID: 31714895
Dr. Claudia Mickael Receives Young Investigator Program Grant
April 27, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Mickael, AGOLD Cohort 7, for her ENTELLIGENCE Young Investigator Program grant award (from Actelion Pharmaceuticals). Project title: The Role of Classical Dendritic Cells in Pulmonary Hypertension
Former RISE Mentee, Safiya Richardson's COVID-19 Publication
April 27, 2020
Please check Safiya Richardson’s (RISE Cohort 6) COVID-19 journal article recently published in JAMA. Her publication gained so much attention – it was picked up by 64 news outlets, 30,711 views, 4,324 PDF downloads and Tweeted by 2,580 since April 1, 2020.
Richardson Safiya, Hirsch Jamie S., Narasimhan Mangala, Crawford James M., McGinn Thomas, Davidson Karina W., Consortium and the Northwell COVID-19 Research. Presenting characteristics, comorbidities, and outcomes among 5700 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York city area. JAMA 2020.
Dr. Francine Gachupin Receives R01
April 27, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Francine Gachupin, CVD-CGE Cohort 3 for receiving an R01, "Achieving American Indian Youth Energy and Mental Health Balance" from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).
Dr. Alexandra Noel Receives K01
April 27, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Noel, Cohort 7, for receiving her K01 from NHLBI, "Cardiopulmonary effects induced by electronic-cigarette and JUUL aerosols in both in vivo and in vitro models”.