News and Events
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May 2017 - Lab receives first NIH R01 award for "Air Pollution, Circadian Rhythm Disruption and Cardiometabolic Disease" to investigate the effects of air pollution exposure on vascular circadian rhythms and cardiometabolic injury in circadian dyssynchrony.
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March 2017 - Lab receives the Impact Award of the Cardiovascular Toxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology for our manuscript "Insulin sensitizers prevent fine particulate matter-induced vascular insulin resistance and changes in endothelial progenitor cell homeostasis." (Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol., 2016, 310(11): H1423-38).
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March 2017 - Our work is presented at the Symposium "Circadian Rhythms in Air-Pollution-induced Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Disorders. A Race Against the Clocks." at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology in Baltimore, Maryland.
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December 2016 - Our manuscript "Exposure to fine particulate air pollution causes vascular insulin resistance by inducing pulmonary oxidative stress." (Environ Health Perspect, 2016, 124(12):1830-1839) is highligted in an editorial https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/124-A236.
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November 2016 - A summary of our current work is presented in the Diabetes and Obesity Center Seminar presentation "Air Pollution and Susceptibility."
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June 2016 - Our manuscript "Insulin sensitizers prevent fine particulate matter-induced vascular insulin resistance and changes in endothelial progenitor cell homeostasis.” (Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 2016, 310(11):H1423-38) is featured as a pod cast http://ajpheart.podbean.com/e/particulate-matter-induced-vascular-insulin-resistance.
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March 2013 - Lab receives Best Postdoctoral Publication Award (BPPA) of the Society of Toxicology for "Exposure to Ambient Air Fine Particulate Matter Prevents VEGF-Induced Mobilization of Endothelial Progenitor Cells from the Bone Marrow." (Environ Health Perspect, 2012, 120(6):848-856).
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March 2012 - Our work is presented at the Workshop "Progenitor and Stem Cells as Targets of Environmental Pollutants" at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology in San Francisco, California.
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January 2012 - Lab is awarded an American Heart Association National Scientist Development Grant (SDG) for "Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Diabetes and Obesity" to investigate how diet-induced obesity impairs EPC mobilization and function.
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December 2011 - Lab receives support from the NIH COBRE (Diabetes and Obesity Center) for the Junior Investigator Project "Effects of Particulate Matter on Insulin Resistance and Endothelial Progenitor Cells" to investigate whether PM2.5 exposure accelerates the progression of T2D and CVD by supressing EPC mobilization and inducing vascular inflammation and insulin resistance.
