From the brain to the heart, Chelsea Phillips will now explore how genetic mutations lead to developmental disorders🫀 Phillips was recently selected for a Postdoctoral Excellence Award, thanks to the generosity of Mary Denton Roberts and David Lyerly 🏅 news.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

Good to see TIME writing about something that many of us have known for a long time. #Diabetes increases #HeartFailure. The piece starts by noting, heart failure is an "under appreciated complication of diabetes". Spread the word, prevent and investigate time.com/6548044/heart-…

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Please read our piece about the incredible impact of AHA Early Career funding 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 AHA Science Circulation Research AHA Research American Heart Association

Check out the latest review in the March 1st issue of Circulation Research by Drs. Pfleger & Vagnozzi about "Early Career Research Support from the #AHA: To the Second Century and Beyond" at: ahajrnls.org/3UhwQz7 Ron Vagnozzi Jessica Pfleger

We're excited to announce our 2024 Roanoke STEM Goes Red Chairs - Veronica van Montfrans, PhD with Virginia Tech and Jessica Pfleger, PhD with Fralin Biomedical Research Institute! Thank you for helping bring STEM to so many young women in the region! #GoRedNoke #STEMGoesRed

It was a pleasure to partner with our local #AHA to put on STEM Goes Red 2024 at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute ❤️ American Heart VA AHA Research AHA Science American Heart News American Heart Association wdbj7.com/2024/05/13/stu…

A huge congratulations to Jessica Pfleger on her first R01! news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

🚨 𝐑𝟎𝟏 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃 🚨 Jessica Pfleger will study the connection between high-fat diet + Type 2 diabetes/heart disease with funding from a new, five-year, $2.5 million grant from the @nih_nhlbi, part of the NIH 🍕🫀 📰 ⬇️ news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

Big congratulations to Arielys Mendoza and Karch Lab !!

Such a fun event! Can’t wait until next year ❤️ American Heart News American Heart VA American Heart Association GoRedforWomen Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Hometown Jobs: 2024 STEM Goes Red event for high school students wdbj7.com/2024/05/22/hom…

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Employee Appreciation Day! 🧬🧪 Mason Wheeler

Congratulations @AdrianA69807039 !!! 🤩

Great talk, Sasha Smolgovsky! You did Pilar Alcaide, PhD so proud 🫀

It’s official! Endless thanks to Jessica Pfleger, the Pfleger lab, VT's Translational Biology, Medicine, & Health, and Fralin Biomedical Research Institute

So excited to share! Thank you to Jessica Pfleger, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, and VT's Translational Biology, Medicine, & Health for making this award possible.

Honored to be the first recipient of this fellowship!

Congratulations to my dear friend Farwah Iqbal! Beyond well deserved.

With support from American Heart Association, postdoctoral associate Mark Renton will explore how obesity impacts pannexin-1's regulation of blood flow in coronary microvascular disease. Read about his research project ⤵️ news.vt.edu/articles/2025/…

Good morning Fralin Biomedical Research Institute ❄️🌨️