UMTC Astronaut Scholarship Foundation scholars Roj Cosiquien and Madelyn Blake were recognized by astronaut Col. Tom Akers at the Bell Museum’s Space Day festivities. University Honors Program UMN CBS Bell Museum

It's been a long round from starting a lab from scratch to a Circulation manuscript. Thanks to all the hard working people in my group, my mentors, the reviewers who made the manuscript better, and a generous collaboration from Xander Wehrens!

Mean age of MD-PhD at first R01 is nearly 46. I would hope we could find ways to lower than number in the future! Hard to convince people to stay in research with that delayed reward when you could go off and make $ in practice.

At our semiannual MN PH Consortium co-hosted with Mayo Clinic. We have a wonderful clinical and research University of Minnesota PH Program program & it's a pleasure to work with this team! Thenappan Thenappan Kurt Prins Heather Wigfield Bryan Thiery Jenna Mendelson Benjamin Kremer Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Minnesota

Prins lab retreat. Lots of food and fun!

The 2025 Goldwater Scholarship application is open. If you are STEM student preparing for a career as a researcher, you could receive a $7500 scholarship. Start your application now. Campus deadline is 11/18. College of Sci & Eng UMN CBS UMN Liberal Arts CFANS University Honors Program honors.umn.edu/scholarships/n…

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…. Excited to share our journey of ferroptosis in PAH. Thanks to generous collaborators Jesse Williams Lab @VUMC_heart (Evan Brittain), Ty Patterson and Christopher Rhodes! Circulation Research Lillehei Heart Institute UMN DOM Research The Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute ATS PC Assembly The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Sasha Prisco, MD, PhD

So incredibly proud of Jenna Mendelson for winning the C&C award!

Incredible dinner with some extremely talented people that I am lucky enough to work with! Huge celebration for Jenna Mendelson for winning the prestigious C&C award! Sasha Prisco, MD, PhD Madelyn Blake Lillehei Heart Institute 3CPR Council

PhD programs are pausing admissions to graduate school due to NIH indirect cost cuts. See the growing number of programs here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… How is science supposed to advance with fewer trainees, less $ for research? This is devastating.

ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…. Sasha Prisco, MD, PhD shows Lactobacillus treatment alters the micro/mycobiome improves RV function via an inflammatory-microtubule axis in Circ: Heart Failure! 3CPR Council The Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute ATS PC Assembly Microbiome Live News Ryan J Tedford MD #microtubules

Lactobacillus supplementation combats inflammation and augments RV function in PAH via the GP130-microtubule axis Sasha Prisco, MD, PhD @jenna_mendelson @MadelynJBlak Kurt Prins Lillehei Heart Institute Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Minnesota #AHAJournals ahajrnls.org/3SfzPpD

Last joint Prins/Prisco lab party! It has been a wonderful era! Kurt Prins Jenna Mendelson Madelyn Blake Ryan Moon Rashmi Raveendran Benjamin Kremer

Great for Thenappan Thenappan to get his phase 1 trial evaluating microbiota transplant accepted today! Proud to play a small part in this cool study.

It's the end of an era! I'm going to miss being able to see you almost every day. I am excited to see all of the amazing things that you will do at MUSC Cardiology! It's not goodbye, it's see you later. Kurt Prins Ryan J Tedford MD Thenappan Thenappan University of Minnesota PH Program Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Minnesota Lillehei Heart Institute

Alternative link: Microbiota Transplant Therapy Is Safe and Feasible in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension | JACC: Basic to Translational Science.

New research alert! Our study in JACC: Basic to Translational Science shows that microbiota transplant therapy (MTT) is safe and feasible for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). #PAH #PulmonaryHypertension #Research #Microbiome

Led my Madelyn Blake, our latest pre-print in which we performed a multi-tissue, multi-omic, multi-species, and multi-continent evaluation of BCAA metabolism in PAH and liver dysfunction. MUSC Research MUSC Cardiology MUSC College of Medicine biorxiv.org/content/10.110….