Brian Speaks and Lauren Presents at BCVS 2018

Brian and Lauren hit the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2018 Scientific Sessions in San Antonio, July 31-Aug2, last week. Brian presented his invited seminar entitled Altered Retinostasis in Heart Failure in the Tuesday session on Transcriptional Regulation and Epigenetics. Stunning talks by all the speakers, including Enzo Porello from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Tom Vondriska from UCLA and Sam Bhattacharyya from UTSW.

Lauren presented her first poster at a national meeting entitled Characterization of the Mechanisms of Retinoic Acid-Mediated Suppression of Cardiac Hypertrophy, in the Wednesday afternoon poster session. She nailed it! Lots of traffic, interest and feedback.

Brian and Lauren would like to thank the organizers of the BCVS 2018 meeting for the opportunity to present their data.

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Foster Lab Awarded Grant from the American Heart Association

A few weeks ago we were thrilled to learn that the AHA has chosen to fund our work on altered retinoic acid homeostasis in heart failure progression with a Transformational Project Award. I wish to extend my thanks to the AHA, past and present members of the research team (Ni, Lauren & Kyriakos), as well as colleagues for their critical advice and support (you know who you are).