I’m thrilled to share our rheumatic heart disease study just published in #Circulation #goredforwomen #Aikawalab Elena Aikawa Brigham and Women's Hospital 🇺🇸and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 🇧🇷 ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

Congratulations to ⁦Elena Aikawa⁩ and Livia Passos, Ph.D! Prothymosin Alpha: A Novel Contributor to Estradiol Receptor Alpha–Mediated CD8+ T-Cell Pathogenic Responses and Recognition of Type 1 Collagen in Rheumatic Heart Valve Disease | Circulation ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Check out our chapter about the mechanics of calcification on the aortic wall and aortic valves for the textbook 📕 “Arterial Stiffness and Pulsatile Hemodynamics in Health and Disease” Elena Aikawa Dakota Becker-Greene sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Masanori Aikawa presenting his target discovery research at Nantes Université and Inserm in Nantes, France. Masanori Aikawa

The ISACB women's leadership committee is so excited to announce the Elena Aikawa Trailblazer Award! And no one is better than Josh Hutcheson to help introduce it 🫀

Elena Aikawa delivering the Keynote Lecture at the Basic Research on Bone and Cartilage Biology Meeting in Nantes. Elena Aikawa

Interactive poster session happening now at #ISACB2022

Our first WiP seminar was sensational! We thank our speakers, mentors, discussants and colleagues for their participation.

Elena Aikawa presents drug target discovery to treat vascular calcification at #IVBM2022

Proud of the amazing work done by our in-house #AI guru Joan T. Matamalas and #HIV #exosome expert Sarvesh Chelvanambi from Masanori Aikawa ‘s group! Beautiful and intricate network analysis to study cardiovascular disease in #COVID19 patients. #ivbm2022 NAVBO IVBM2022

Bravo to Mark Blaser, PhD from trailblazer Elena Aikawa’s ISACB group to “blase” (pun intended) new paths for the field of tissue vesiculomics in cardiovascular calcification!@vascularbiology IVBM2022 #ivbm2022

Three co-chairs (Masanori Aikawa, Rong Wang, Jan Kitajewski) said good by to everyone at the closing ceremony of very successful IVBM2022. Congratulations to the 800 participants that networked and shared their cutting-edge research! NAVBO #IVBM2022 #IVBM2022

CICS celebrates: Absolutely well deserved! Congratulations Sarvesh.

Our new paper on the LDL receptor-independent effects of PCSK9 on macrophage activation was just published in Circulation Research! ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

Our first in-person CICS Seminar since COVID hit us!  Our first speaker for the 2023-2024 Season is Frederick Fenter, PhD, Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers Media.  Fred is an active advocate for Open Science and has pioneered open access publishing.

This round table discussion led by Masanori Aikawa featuring NAVBO DEI committee members covered many interesting topics ranging from addressing cultural differences, incorporating technologies in grant writing and how to be an advocate for your science! ##NAVBO2023

#NAVBO2023 was such a fantastic meeting in beautiful #RhodeIsland ! There were meritorious awards, delicious dinners, fascinating science and some beautiful sceneries. It was great to interact with NAVBO community. Masanori Aikawa Elena Aikawa Prabhash Jha Sarvesh Chelvanambi

Honorary CICS member and research fellow of the Masanori Aikawa lab, Prabhash Jha, presents his rapid fire poster at #AHA23 long noncoding RNA