COURTNEY GRIFFIN LAB

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!

Summer Scholar

The Griffin lab has been delighted to host Andrianna Buxton this summer through the new Langston Biomedical Research Scholars program at OMRF. Andrianna has spent two months working closely with Dr. Chris Schafer studying inflammatory factors that increase lung vascular permeability. We’re grateful for Andrianna’s hard work and hope to welcome her back to the […]

Saxon Scholar

The lab has had the pleasure of hosting Erika Willis, a rising Senior at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as our Saxon Scholar this summer. Erika spent a month working with Chris Schafer studying inflammation-induced vascular permeability in the lung. We are proud of Erika’s accomplishments in the lab this summer and wish her the […]

Graduate Student Scholarship

Congrats to Rahul Rajala for his OMRF Predoctoral Scholarship, which will fund his research on protease-activated receptors for the next academic year.

New publication on transcriptional regulators of Ripk3

The lab is pleased to announce another publication about RIPK3 biology in endothelial cells. Siqi Gao led a study showing that components of the NF-kB signaling pathway work to suppress excessive endothelial Ripk3 transcription and cell death after TNFα stimulation. This provides more evidence that Ripk3 must be tightly transcriptionally regulated to maintain vascular homeostasis.

New American Lung Association Catalyst Award

We are so proud of Dr. Chris Schafer for landing an American Lung Association Catalyst Award. Chris will use this career development award to study pulmonary vascular permeability under inflammatory conditions. Well done, Chris!