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News
Adi Tarca, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Obstetrics & Gynecology, received a notice of allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office for his patent application “KITS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTION AND TREATMENT OF PREECLAMPSIA” (US Application No: 18/482,286)
Lucynda Pham, MS, a 3rd year MGG PhD graduate student in Maik Hüttemann’s laboratory, was selected as a recipient of the Corrine F. Resta Endowed Doctoral Support award from the WSU School of Medicine.
Cristina Espinosa-Diez, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Physiology received a pilot award from the Michigan Diabetes Research Center for her project “Role of LncRNAs in endothelial dysfunction in diabetic kidney disease”
Upcoming Events
For more information email Suzanne Shaw
11:00 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
CMMG Student/Post-Doc Seminar Series: Tasnim Arroum, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Maik Hüttemann
11:00 a.m., 2268 Scott Hall
CMMG Seminar Series: Joshua Heyza, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University
CMMG Spotlight
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Teskey G, Tiwari N, Butcko AJ, Kumar A, Yadav A, Huang YM, Kelly CV, Granneman JG, Perfield JW, Mottillo EP (2025) Lipid droplet targeting of the lipase coactivator ABHD5 and the fatty liver disease-causing variant PNPLA3 I148M is required to promote liver steatosis. J Biol Chem 301(2):108186. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2025.108186. Epub 2025 Jan 13. PMCID: PMC11849118
Morse PT, Pasupati V, Vuljaj S, Yazdi N, Zurek MP, Wan J, Lee I, Vaishnav A, Edwards BFP, Arroum T, Huettemann M (2025) Cardiac Tyrosine 97 Phosphorylation of Cytochrome c Regulates Respiration and Apoptosis. Int J Mol Sci. 26(3):1314. doi: 10.3390/ijms26031314. PMCID: PMC11818311