Congratulations to Dr. Justin Grobe @JLGrobe of MCW Department of Physiology for being named to the Butenhoff Family Professorship in Cardiovascular Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Medical College of Wisconsin

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Hodges @hodges_matthew_ of MCW Department of Physiology for being named an Eminent Scholar at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Medical College of Wisconsin

Congratulations to Natalia Mathieu Natalia M. Mathieu for being officially hooded at the MCW Graduate School Hooding Ceremony yesterday. Could not be prouder of Dr. Mathieu!

Congratulations to MCW Department of Physiology student Alisha Ziegler and mentor @JLGrobe on being hooded at the MCW Graduate School hooding ceremony yesterday.

Congratulations to all the MCW Department of Physiology graduate students who will officially receive their PhD today at Medical College of Wisconsin commencement. The newly minted Drs. Wasif Osmani, Amanda Marks, Adrian Zietara, Santiago Alvarez, Gopika SenthiKumar, Natalia Mathieu, and Alisha Zeigler.

Our MCW Department of Physiology Chair Dr. Curt D. Sigmund Curt D. Sigmund, PhD has been selected as a member of the Medical College of Wisconsin Board of Trustees.

Our first seminar of the fall sessions at MCW Department of Physiology couldn't have been better with Dr. Heddwen Brooks, PhD, AJP-Renal Editor-in-Chief's presentation, "Sex Differences in Hypertension, Inflammation, and Diabetic Kidney Disease."

MCW Department of Physiology is proud of our trainees who received awards at the AHA Hypertension Scientific Sessions Conference in Chicago.

👏👏👏 Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Mickle on his recent award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases!

Congratulations to Dr. Gopika SenthilKumar Gopika SenthilKumar, PhD and mentor Dr. Julie Freed Julie Freed Lab for being awarded the Excellence Award in Physiology for 2024. MCW Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin MCW_CardioResearchCenter

So proud of grad student Lauren Yunker for applying new methods of image analysis to segmenting protein casts in kidney sections. We worked together to get her started and it was fun to see her transition from manually tracing in #imagej to using #QuPath journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.115…

MCW Department of Physiology holiday pot-luck lunch. Movie courtesy of Pablo Nakagawa.

We were made aware of a recent phone scam. The caller identifies as Sgt. Thomas Smith from the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office calling about urgent legal matters. If you receive one of these calls, do not release personal information to the caller.

We congratulate Daria Golosova, MD, PhD, on winning the 2024 Edward J. Lennon, MD, Outstanding Woman Postdoctoral Researcher Award and wish her continued success. Daria received the award from the esteemed Jan Lennon, the sponsor of this honor. DG

Distilling the potential impact of science based on a title is so dangerous. Some of the biggest biomedical breakthroughs came from research that, at first glance, seemed ‘pointless or unrelated. Here are a few that I'm sure might have caused an uproar in the headlines:

I’m a Former HMS Dean. Here’s What Trump’s NIH Cuts Will Actually Do. ⁦The Harvard Crimson⁩ ⁦Harvard Medical School⁩ thecrimson.com/article/2025/2…

Sigmund Laboratory 2025

No pressure—but if the renal baroreceptor machinery piques your curiosity... @curtsigmund & team Medical College of Wisconsin reveal mice lacking CUL3 in vascular smooth muscle cells exhibit robust hypertension with paradoxically unaltered renin expression and decreased integrin β1

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