New AHA Postdoc Fellowship awarded

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!

Postdoc Travel Grant

July 24, 2018

Congrats to Chris Schafer on winning an OMRF Postdoc Travel Award to attend the Vascular Cell Biology Gordon Research Conference next January in California. Way to go!

Visiting Graduate Research Trainee

July 24, 2018

We are delighted to welcome Kasia Kurylowicz–a visiting masters student from Jagiellonian University–to our lab for the next year. Kasia will be working closely with Dr. Chris Schafer to study vascular growth and regression in the eye under developmental and pathological conditions. Welcome, Kasia!

2018 Saxon Scholar

June 21, 2018

The Griffin lab has been honored to host Paige Miles, a rising Junior at the U.S. Naval Academy, as our Saxon Scholar this summer. Paige spent three intense weeks studying the effects of macrophages on embryonic vascular development. We are grateful for her hard work and amazed at how much she learned in such a[Read More…]

New OCAST Postdoc Fellowship

June 20, 2018

Chris Schafer just won a 2-year Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology Postdoc Fellowship! This is a new funding mechanism for OCAST, and we’re so proud to have Chris representing our lab as one of the first recipients.

New Lab Publication

May 16, 2018

Congrats to Siqi on her new paper accepted to Hepatology assessing plasmin-mediated vascular damage in adult mouse livers after acetaminophen overdose. Check out this news article about her findings: https://newsok.com/article/5598177/discovery-could-help-treat-tylenol-overdoses

Gao, S., Silasi-Mansat, R., Behar, M., Lupu, F., and Griffin, C.T. (2018) Excessive plasmin compromises hepatic sinusoidal vascular integrity after acetaminophen overdose. Hepatology, doi: 10.1002/hep.30070. [Epub ahead of print]. [Abstract]

Menendez, M.T., Ong, E.C., Shepherd, B.T., Muthukumar, V., Silasi-Mansat, R., Lupu, F., and Griffin, C.T. (2017) BRG1 (Brahma-Related Gene 1) promotes endothelial Mrtf transcription to extablish embryonic capillary integrity. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 37(9):1674-1682. [Abstract]

Griffin, C.T. and Gao, S. (2017) Building discontinuous liver sinusoidal vessels. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 127(3): 790-792. (Invited Commentary) [Abstract]

Crosswhite, P.L., Podsiadlowska, J.J., Curtis, C.D., Gao, S., Xia, L., Srinivasan, R.S., Griffin, and Griffin, C.T. (2016) CHD4-regulated plasmin activation impacts lymphovenous hemostasis and hepatic vascular integrity. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 126(6): 2254-66. [Abstract]