Lab News

Clif Ray (primary advisor: Paul Yates) won the best paper award at the 2017 International Federation for Adipose Therapeutics and Science (IFATS) Conference for his talk, entitled: "A lineage-tracing mouse model reveals Myh11 smooth muscle cells and pericytes are mesenchymal stem cells" with co-authors Paromita Dey, Scott A. Seaman, Jennifer D. Mansour, Anthony C. Bruce, Shayn M. Peirce, Bijan K. Dey, Paul A. Yates.

Graduate student in the Peirce-Cottler laboratory, Molly Kelly-Goss, won a prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship, which will support her research for the next two years. Her project, which is funded by the AHA Mid-Atlantic Affiliate for two years, is entitled: "In vivo, single-cell analysis of recruited pericytes during angiogenesis and vessel stabilization."

A $60,000 grant for Developing Leadership in 3-D Bio-Printing will provide research funds for the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s two state-of-the-art 3-D bio-printers. The funding will be used for interdisciplinary research projects as well as providing UVA students with hands-on training in 3-D bio-printing.

The Peirce-Cottler laboratory has acquired two state-of-the-art 3-D bioprinters from Switzerland. The printers will eventually print tissues that could be used to treat patients with conditions as diverse as burns to diabetes to organ failure.