New AHA Postdoc Fellowship awarded

April 23, 2018 By griffinc

Big congrats to Chris Schafer who was just awarded a 2-year AHA Postdoc Fellowship for his fascinating project studying hyaloid regression in the neonatal murine eye. We’re proud of you, Chris!

New manuscript on pro-angiogenic roles for RIPK3

The lab is proud of Siqi’s new manuscript published in Angiogenesis that describes novel pro-angiogenic roles for RIPK3. This study adds to our lab’s growing evidence that RIPK3 can play beneficial roles in endothelial cells, in addition to detrimental ones when it is overexpressed.

Successful Vascular Biology 2020

The Griffin Lab thoroughly enjoyed NAVBO’s online Vascular Biology 2020 meeting, despite the ice storm that hit OKC early in the meeting and compromised power/internet for many of us. Congrats to Matt and Charmain for their oral presentations selected from abstract submissions and to Melinda (circled below) for winning an Outstanding Poster Award from the […]

Congratulations, Dr. Gao!

The Griffin lab was full of smiles and tears today as we celebrated Siqi’s successful Ph.D. defense! We will miss Siqi’s amazing presence in the lab but are excited that she’s staying in the vascular field, as she begins her postdoc with Dr. Mark Kahn at U. Penn next month. Many congrats, Siqi, for a […]

New publication about ocular blood vessel regression

Congrats to Chris Schafer for his newly published manuscript in PNAS describing a novel way to regress pathological blood vessels in mouse eyes. Many thanks as well to our collaborators across the street at the Dean McGee Eye Institute and to George Davis at USF. Check out the following press coverage: https://omrf.org/2020/10/06/omrf-discovery-holds-potential-for-reversing-vision-loss/ OMRF testing new […]

Good luck, Stacy!

The lab just said “goodbye” to its 4th student from the Visiting Graduate Traineeship Program–Katarzyna (Stacy) Borawska. Stacy spent the last year in the lab studying vascular development in the embryonic omentum with Dr. Matt Menendez. We wish her the best as she returns to Poland to defend her Masters thesis.