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Dr. Nasrollahi received the Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. Congratulations!

Congratulations, Dr. Blair! Dr. Laura Blair was selected for an Impact Award by the James A Haley Veterans Hospital. This award is to recognize those with sustained VA funding and was presented at VA Research Day.

Alcohol-induced gut microbial reorganization and associated overproduction of phenylacetylglutamine promotes cardiovascular disease The mechanism(s) underlying gut microbial metabolite (GMM) contribution towards alcohol-mediated cardiovascular disease (CVD) is unknown. Herein we observe elevation in...

Dr. Irem Culha Taskin published a new article entitled "Immune cells in intracerebral hemorrhage" in Brain Hemorrhages.

Dr. Yao was promoted to Professor at the University of South Florida. Congratulations!

Jingsong Ruan was hooded by Dr. Yao at the Summer 2025 Commencement Ceremony. Congratulations Dr, Ruan!

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for ∼50% of HF cases. The ZSF1-obese rat model recapitulates clinical features of HFpEF including hypertension, obesity, metabolic syndrome, exercise intolerance, and diastolic dysfunction. We utilized a systems-biology approach to...

Ahmed Ramadan, PhD was selected for Flash Talk at Midwest Stress Meeting 2025 Dr. Ahmed Ramadan, a postdoc in the Blair lab, presented a Flash Talk at the 30th Annual Midwest Stress Meeting, which is hosted at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Two PhD students, Abigail Esquivel and Baliqis...

Blair Lab welcomes Medical Sciences PhD student, Brianna Ariza! Brianna completed her BS in Health sciences and MS in Nanotechnology at the University of Central Florida. She joins the Blair Lab for her PhD studies to conduct research focused on molecular chaperone, FKBP51, in tau-mediated neuron...

On Friday, February 14th, 2025, graduate student Alex Leake was awarded the Krzanowski Career Development Award from the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, for his work in studying the long-term effects of adolescent alcohol misuse and...