Thank you so much for this announcement. Very fortunate to have received this award and for the opportunity to work on what we believe to be a very important problem. Thank you to the NIH for supporting this work and to the team who is pursuing these studies at the bench.

A major discovery from UVA & Wayne State University scientists could bring us closer to a long-sought HIV cure: newsroom.uvahealth.com/2025/05/28/hiv… #HIV #UVAHealth

Thanks to UW–Madison SCRMC for highlighting our recent work on functional genomics of cardiovascular risk. 🫀🔬🧫 stemcells.wisc.edu/2025/06/04/uw-…

NEW STUDY: More than twice as many diabetic patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs (Ozempic, Wagovy, Mounjaro) developed age-related macular degeneration tinyurl.com/5a29nfh5

GLP-1RAs effectively reduce body weight, but the associated muscle loss and the lack of improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness are concerning. Read more in our recent review published in #JCEM Endocrine Society Endocrine Society Journals Endocrine News academic.oup.com/jcem/article-a…

"Paclitaxel is one of the most important drugs in the fight against #cancer." It is derived from yew trees, but newly discovered plant genes could lead to cheaper synthesis of Taxol precursor in yeast cells. #Science #Genomics #Biology #Biochemistry ⏯️science.org/content/articl…

Check it out!! Great work Kevin Mangum ! U-M Health Frankel CVC Michigan Surgery UMich Imm Grad Prog Scott Damrauer Johann Gudjonsson Frank M Davis MD

And that’s a wrap! Huge thank you to all the speakers, moderators, poster presenters, and attendees at the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Atherosclerosis. A fantastic meeting and even better community! Incredible to work with Esther Lutgens. See you in 2027!

Williams Lab had a great time at the Atherosclerosis Gordon conference- amazing talks and a great chance to reconnect with leading researchers from around the world. Looking forward to doing this again!

Opportunities are available for Post-Docs to join UVA and be a part of the CVRC's Training Grant.

Huge congratulations Kiran! Very well deserved!

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨 We’re joined by Stanford’s Chief of Vascular Medicine, Nick Leeper! 🔗 Tune in here: surgery.stanford.edu/research/scrub… Stanford Vascular #hearthealth

DNA methylation goes spatial! Introducing Spatial-DMT: a technology that co-profiles DNA methylation and transcriptome in the same tissue section. A fantastic collaboration with Wanding Zhou lab. Kudos to Chin Nien Lee Chin Nien Lee and Hongxiang Fu! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

They say it’s about the journey, not the destination, and I couldn’t imagine a more talented and dedicated team to be on this journey with. Amazing to think about all we have achieved and how much lies ahead. Onward!

Building the #FutureofCare at #UVAHealth Zion Crossroads. Inspired by the progress and the team’s commitment to bringing care closer to home!

Our new paper is published as a Cover Story -"Eating the Message" in Science Translational Medicine. This paper demonstrates that oral mRNA delivery to the intestines is feasible using our RNACap design. Congrats to our Rising Star Xiangang Huang and the team!

Our study, published online today Circulation Research, shows how local TNF signaling from smooth muscle to endothelium elevates blood pressure in obesity! UVA CVRC doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRE…

Vascular remodeling and maturation in arteriovenous fistulas are improved by mesenchymal stem cells science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Science Translational Medicine Sanjay Misra MD, FSIR, FAHA, FACR

Welcome new Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Surgery Dept. and Ohio State University Ophthalmology faculty member Qing Lin, MD, PhD, will join Div of Cardiac Surg in the Department of Surgery & Ophthalmology Visual Sciences. Dr. Lin is an immunologist whose NHLBI funded research examines wound-healing mechanisms in 🫁, skin, and 👀