Farha smiling and cutting a cake with the Brown University seal at her defense receptionJuly 9, 2024– Please join us in congratulating another former BRRTP trainee, Farha Mithila, PhD, on her successful thesis defense, “Fighting Infections: The Role of Estrogen Beyond Reproductive Health”!

 

Brandon Armstead pictured outside in button up shirt

June 26, 2024- Former BRRTP trainee, Brandon Armstead, PhD, successfully defended his thesis titled “Endothelial Checkpoint Protein Interactions Uniquely Prime for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome via the
Adrenomedullin Signaling Axis”. Congratulations, Brandon!

Yang Zhou looking at the camera while standing in front of a bookshelf. June 26, 2024- BRRTP MPI Yang Zhou, PhD, received $80,000 for the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network Inc. Research Grant in Immune Responses in HPS-ILD for  his work on “Innate Immune Responses in a Mouse Model of HPS that Develops Spontaneous Lung Fibrosis”.

 

 

 

May 19, 2024– Congratulations to Navneet Singh, MD, on his Early Career Investigator Award in Pulmonary Vascular Disease given by the Pulmonary Circulation Assembly of the American Thoracic Society. The title of his proposal is “The Liver is an Inflammatory Mediator of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.” His mentors for this proposal are: Corey E. Venetuolo, MD, MS, Elizabeth O. Harrington, PhD, Olin Liang, PhD, & Kittichai Promrat, MD. The award funds total $100,000 and runs from August 1, 2024 to July 30, 2025.

 

Navneet Singh standing at a podium and giving a powerpoint presentation Maya Cohen standing next to her research poster and smiling May 17-22, 2024– Two of our BRRTP postdocs, Navneet Singh, MD, and Maya Cohen, MD, attended the annual American Thoracic Society (ATS) meeting and presented their research. Navneet presented his work on “MELD-Na Can Predict the Severity of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension” and Maya presented on the topic of “Multimorbidity Subphenotypes in Sepsis Have Differential Host Responses and Mortality Outcomes”.