News & Milestones
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Ava G. Oliver has been accepted into our TTUHSC School of Medicine!
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We are very happy to see her dream come true.
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Congratulations, AGO!
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Welcome to our lab, Elizabeth Burks!
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Elizabeth is an MS2 student and joined our lab as part of the 2024 Medical Student Summer Research Program.
Welcome to our lab, Bennett Schackmuth!
Bennett is an M.D./Ph.D. student. He is now a MS2 and joined our lab for his first summer rotation as Ph.D. student in 2024
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Welcome to our lab, Patricia C. Rodriguez!
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Patricia comes from the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce to pursue her 2024 Summer Research Internship as part of their U-RISE Program.
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Welcome to our lab, Karsyn Clouse!
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Karsyn is one of our 2024 Summer Accelerated Biomedical Research Program intern. She came to us from Austin College in Sherman, TX.
Welcome to our lab, Preston Campbell!
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Preston is one of our 2024 Summer Accelerated Biomedical Research Program intern, coming from TTU, Lubbock.
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Amanda K. Garcia's first manuscript as first author (Review Article) has been published in the Journal of Vascular Diseases (2024)!
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Congratulations, AKG!
Welcome to our lab, Javaria Baig!
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She is a second year Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences joinig our lab in 2024. She is interested in Neurobiology & Infectious Diseases and wants to pursue a career as a scientist in industry.
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Amanda K. Garcia passed her Qualifying Exam and is now a Ph.D. Candidate!
Another champ bottle in our collection!
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Congratulations, Amanda!
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We are very happy to hear that we will be working with our long- standing collaborator, Dr. Edu Suarez (Univ of Puerto Rico-Ponce) in her PAR2 & COVID project, sponsored by the PR Dept Economic Development & Commerce (2024)!
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Congratulations, Amanda K. Garcia!
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She won the competitive 2024 Mary Lou Chements-Mann Scholarship at TTUHSC!
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Welcome to our lab,
Eli Heath!
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Eli is a sophomore pursuing his Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University and is on the pre-medical track. He will work on his Honor's thesis in our lab (2024)!
Welcome to our lab, Minh Nguyen!
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Minh is a sophomore pursuing his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry at Texas Tech Univ and is on the pre-medical track. He will work on his Honor's thesis in our lab (2024)!
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Beyond excited for our first R01 on HIV-PH, funded by the NHLBI in 2023 !!!!!!!!!!!
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Feeling grateful, blessed, and inspired to keep doing what we love!
From here, it's possible!
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Welcome to our lab, Audree Macias!
Audree is our 2023 Summer Accelerated Biomedical Research Program intern. She came to us from TTU-Chemistry. We now have 3As (Amanda, Ava & Audry) working in the A-Lab!
We are delighted to share that we will be working with Dr. Jeremy Goettel (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) in his HIV vaccination project in next-generation humanized mice sponsored by an NIAID R01!
Amanda Garcia won a travel award to receive training in rodent microvascular surgery at Columbia University! (2023).
Way to go, Amanda!
Ava Oliver presented at the 2023 TTUHSC Student Research Week and 3rd place award in the category for 2nd Year PhD and Undergraduate Research!
Congratulations, Ava!
Amanda Garcia won a travel award present at the 4th Symposium on Infectious Diseases in the Immuno-compromised Host in Seattle, Washington!
Congratulations, Amanda!
Ava Oliver presented at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference at Texas Tech University and won the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!
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Congratulations, Ava!
Amanda and Sharilyn drove to Santa Fe, New Mexico to attend the 2023 Keystone Symposia Conference “PH: State of the Art and Therapeutic Opportunities”. It was a fantastic conference; so happy to reunite with amazing friends and colleagues!
Get-together with some of the amazing members of the infection & Pulmonary Vascular Disease Consortium while attending the 2023 American Thoracic Society Conference in Washington DC!
Congratulations to Robert Lopez-Astacio for earning your Ph.D. in Immunology & Infectious Diseases at Cornell University in 2023!
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Robert joined our lab in Denver as research intern in 2013!!!!
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We are SO proud of you, Robert!
Welcome to our lab, Amanda K. Garcia!
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She is a second year Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences joinig our lab in 2022. She is interested in Infectious Diseases and wants to pursue a career as a scientist in industry.
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Welcome to our lab, Alina Cosima Schneider!
She is a Visiting Scholar from the University of Heidelberg.
*she co-authored two papers in 2022!
Welcome to our 2022 Summer Accelerated Biomedical Research Program intern,
Ava G. Oliver!
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Welcome to our lab, Kailey Shannon and Liam Ung!
They are MS1 participating in the 2022 Medical Student Summer Research Program and will lead our HIV and long-COVID project.
Congratulations to Mosharaf Mahmud Syed for earning your Master's of Science in Biotechnology at TTUHSC (2021)! He contributed to our pulmonary vascular cross-talk studies.
Update: Mosharaf is completing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences here at TTUHSC
Congratulations to Ethan A. Salazar for your graduation! Bachelors of Science in Biology and Bachelors of Art in Spanish (2021)
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Update: He also earned a Masters of Business Administration in STEM (2022) from Texas Tech University!
Congratulations,
Nick J. Evans for earning your Master's of Science in Biotechnology at TTUHSC (2021)!
Nick led our SARS-CoV-2 & HIV studies.
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Update: Nick is completing his Ph.D. in Immunology at UAB!
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Super exciting to hear that our manuscript about HIV-infected humanized mice for PAH studies has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Immunology (2022)!
Welcome to our 2021 Summer Accelerated Biomedical Research Program intern, Alex Mabry!
She came to us from Ole Miss! and she rocked or lab in no time!
Update: Alex is now completing an M.D. degree at Temple University - Lewis Katz School of Medicine!
Welcome to our lab, Ava Grace Oliver!
She started as a research volunteer in 2021.
Nick Evans was selected for oral presentation at the 2021 Experimental Biology Conference (virtual)!
We are excited to hear that Nick Evans's first article as first author has been accepted for publication in Life (2021)! This is his Review article on SARS-CoV-2 & HIV
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Happy to hear that our HIV X4-PH manuscript has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports (2020)!
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Congratulations to Edgar G. Martinez for your Master's of Science in Immunology (TTUHSC, 2020)!
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Welcome to our lab, Valerie Rodriguez!
Coming from UPR-Ponce, she presented at the 2019 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Anaheim, California and won the Outstanding Presentation Award!
Update: Valerie is completing a Ph.D. in Immunology @ UTSW!
Welcome to our lab, Rosenid K. Quinones!
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She is a UPR-PRISE student who will be working on our 2019 Summer HIV-pulmonary vascular project. She presented a poster at the 2019 SACNAS Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii!
Welcome to our lab, Daniel Ahle!
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He is a MS1 participating in the 2019 Medical Student Summer Research Program. He won a Minority Travel Award to present at the 2019 ATS International Conference in Dallas, Texas!