Congrats Mahima Reddy on winning a Trainee Research Competition award at the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM) UAB NSC #BHM/ATL GRECC #UAB ICAR research symposium 🥳 Way to represent our lab, UAB Pathology & UAB MSTP !!

Team science UAB Heersink School of Medicine UAB Pathology is fun! Great adding to the GlcNAc story and its direct role in cardiac remodeling with partner in crime John Chatham several trainees from my group Chae-Myeong "Jenna" Ha Samuel Chang Sayan Bakshi Luke Potter & more! ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…

An amazing 10th annual #CCVCSymposium! Learning about “Sex Differences & Gender Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease”, trainees Mahima Reddy Samuel Chang presenting our latest work, and meeting up with friends/colleagues!!

Filled with gratitude and excited for my F30 from @nih_nhlbi to study “Nox4 and Epigenetics in chronically enhanced cardiac protein O-GlcNAcylation” ❤️🔬🩺 Couldn’t have been possible without support from UAB MSTP UAB Pathology UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM) Wende Lab🎉

Grateful for the opportunity to learn about the social determinants of cardiovascular health and share our lab’s latest collaborative work at the 11th annual #CCVCSymposium! Wende Lab UAB Pathology UAB Cardiovascular Disease

👏 Gregory Payne,MD,PhD and his team are on the cover of ATVB: An AHA Journal for their study using spatial transcriptomics to investigate coronary atherosclerosis. 🔬They identified changes linked to atherosclerotic plaques & cell populations that may increase the risk of heart attacks.

Wende Lab trainees Md Saimoon Rahman Mahima Reddy presented their innovative research at the 16th Annual Boshell Research Day Auburn University, focusing on our commitment to advancing knowledge in cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

🎉 Adam R. Wende, PhD, FAHA, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Pathology’s Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, has been awarded the senior faculty 2025 UAB Heersink School of Medicine Dean’s Excellence Award in Mentorship. Congratulations, Dr. Wende! Read more: bit.ly/3GMsIlU

From 1970 to 2022 in the U.S. mortality for myocardial infarction⬇️89%, ischemic heart disease⬇️81%, while other heart disease, including heart failure,⬆️81%. #AHAJournals ahajrnls.org/4kou30t