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Virginia Tech News published this video to highlight Robert Gourdie's work. He is a BEAM faculty member and professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. Watch the video to learn more about his great work! ow.ly/ou5A50xUZm7

Marsh, Pridham et al. Novel Protocols for Scalable Production of High Quality Purified Small Extracellular Vesicles from Bovine Milk ntno.org/v05p0488.htm Excited about our paper on milk extracellular vesicle (EV) - exosome purification published in Nanotheranostics today.

Congratulations to Dr. Jade Montgomery. The FASEB Journal selected her beautiful image (based on Fig. 3 in Montgomery et al. FASEB J, 2021 PMID: 34246197 ) for the journal cover in the issue her paper appears. #research #published

The journal cover image for our FASEB J article Montgomery et al., 2021 has now published - see below. Full article can be found at tinyurl.com/ybpz2trd

Congratulations to my grad student Randy Strauss on publication of his first author paper in Biomolecules - "The Cx43 Carboxyl-Terminal Mimetic Peptide αCT1 Protects Endothelial Barrier Function in a ZO1 Binding-Competent Manner" - mdpi.com/2218-273X/11/8…

Many thanks to Whitney Slightham for her article on our work on milk exosomes as drug delivery devices and collaboration with Homestead Creamery in VT News today. The paper describing our study in Nanotheranostics is at - lnkd.in/enTDFVcP lnkd.in/eWT8X73V

Roanoke Times reporter Casey Fabris wrote a nice article on our work on milk exosomes as a drug delivery devices on Sunday roanoke.com/business/local…

Nice news article by Whitney Slightham on the latest Gourdie lab spin-off The Tiny Cargo Company and its induction into DC Jlabs program. vtx.vt.edu/articles/2021/…

My editorial on interesting new paper in CVR by Simon-Chica et al on the enigmatic role of macrophages in cardiac electrical signaling just published-lnkd.in/ev_T_XaN. Could not help nod to Michelangelo who foresaw ephaptic is probably the most important interaction : )

Thanks to all who contributed to another successful HS&T Hokie pitch competition at Virginia Tech, as well as to our TBMH graduate students who participated lnkd.in/ehWRsBhV. Hard to believe this is our 6th year.

Musical Holiday Card from Rob and Sherri - HOLLY GROVE youtu.be/LTDw-hJGjeQ via YouTube

Our Oncogenesis paper “Connexin 43 confers chemoresistance through activating PI3K” is officially out. Thank all who got involved in this work. nature.com/articles/s4138…

In a new study published in Oncogenesis, Zhi Sheng and Rob Gourdie describe how two protein-targeting drugs – when combined with chemotherapy – yield synergistic cytotoxicity to treatment-resistant brain cancer. vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/… #Glioblastoma #CancerResearch

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Many thanks to family, friends and colleagues who posted their best wishes on the R35 news. lnkd.in/dkWJK72a

Inspiring post on brave and good-hearted person. lnkd.in/dpXJS3C2

Outstanding news piece by the wonderful John Carlin at WSLS on our work at Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, our new spin-off The Tiny Cargo Company and recognition at this year's Junior Achievement Gala. lnkd.in/eGnsk4nB

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student Rocco Di Santo came to me with a big idea 4 years ago - his research was published this week in Nature Biotechnology - so proud of him. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Important new study in Circulation Research led by Steve Poelzing on the key role of ephaptic conduction and the perinexus to normal cardiac electrophysiology. Congratulations also to first author William Adams a graduate student in VT's TBMH program. ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Congratulations to Dr Zachary Williams who had a bonanza week getting two papers accepted from his PhD work. One in Heart Rhythym tinyurl.com/3dyz6j3m and the other in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology tinyurl.com/4ek5xxze. Proud of you buddy!