June 2020
Megan Wood, a forth year PhD student, received an F31 for her project exploring the role of PD-L1 on macrophages during collagen induced arthritis in mice.
May 2020
Hannah Kalinoski (PhD candidate) was recently awarded a 2020 Delta Omega Scholarship. The Delta Omega chapter at the John Hopkins University School of Public Health selects winners by grading applicants on their project proposal’s feasibility, scientific/scholarly merit, and significance to public health. Hannah received the award in the Laboratory Research category for her project “The role of antibody mediated apoptosis of salivary gland stem-like epithelial cells in the pathogenesis of Sjogren’s syndrome.”
October 12, 2019
Our lab participated in the American Heart Association Heart Walk! Thank you all for coming out to support The American Heart Association that supports some of our research as well as supporting all the people that are battling heart disease!
August 30, 2019
Megan Wood has successfully completed her Doctoral Board Oral Examination and was recognized with a celebratory White coat ceremony
and reception at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health!
July 18, 2019
Press Release :
Disrupting Immune Cell Behavior May Contribute to Heart Disease And Failure, Study Shows
Johns Hopkins-Led Research Suggests Problem Protein May Be Key to Future Therapies
https://www.newswise.com/articles/disrupting-immune-cell-behavior-may-contribute-to-heart-disease-and-failure-study-shows
June 14, 2019 Autoimmunity Day!
Dr. Daniela Cihakova plenary speaker
Dr. William Bracamonte-Baran winner of poster presentation
June 7th 2019 Free Doughnuts! lab members taking a break!
June 4th, 2019 Saying Good-by to Dr. William Bracamonte-Baran as he moves on to a residency program in Texas!
May 10, 2019 Lab Picture!
April 22, 2019
Cihakova Lab Easter Egg Hunt!
March 27, 2019
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Young Investigators’ Day Presentations!
Very productive lab! This year we had 5 posters by our PhD Students: HeeSun Choi, Megan Wood and David Hughes and our post doctoral fellows: Taejoon Won and William Bracamonte-Baran !
February 8, 2019
David Hughes reviewing T cell Immunology at our Lab meeting, February 8, 2019
January 23, 2019
Congratulations to Xuezhou (Snow) Hou for successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Hou!
January 23, 2019
Rhett Lundy Memorial Research Fellowship Grant Recipient: Dr. Taejoon Won, PhD
December 7, 2018
Happy Holidays Lab Lunch!
April 24, 2018
Working hard and having fun!
March 13, 2018
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Young Investigators’ Day Presentations
January 2018
January 24, 2018
Dr. Cihakova presented at the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, Cardiology Grand Rounds!
October 2017
October 28, 2017
Dr. Cihakova was interviewed for the Business News in the Check Republic newspaper.
Link to the paper:
http://ihned.cz/c1-65931870-ceska-vedkyne-zmenila-pohled-na-infarkt-v-usa-vede-tym-vedcu-na-prestizni-univerzite
Congratulations Dr. Cihakova!
October 14th, 2017
Our lab participated in the American Heart Association Heart Walk! Thank you all for coming out to support The American Heart Association that supports some of our research as well as supporting all the people that are battling heart disease!
October 5th, 2017
Dr. Daniela Cihakova lectured at the Fifth Annual Pathology Educational Symposium: Laboratory Diagnostic of Celiac Disease and Gluten-related disorders
September 2017
Congratulations, Hee Sun Choi!
We are proud to announce that Hee Sun Choi, a graduate student in the Pathobiology Graduate Program, has been awarded the MAA Winter 2016 Predoctoral Fellowship. The 2-year award was granted to Hee Sun by the Research Committee of the American Heart Association to fund her project: Role of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in eosinophilic pericarditis.
Hee Sun Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea and received her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Biotechnology from Yonsei University in 2009 and 2011, respectively. While at Yonsei University, the main focus of her research was protein folding. Hee Sun joined the laboratory of Daniela Cihakova, M.D., Ph.D., and has been studying the mechanism of the development of pericarditis-inflammation in the heart. Her long term goal is to contribute to developing more effective ways to prevent and treat human diseases.
August, 2017
Saying good-by to our summer students: Katerina Havlik student at Muhlenberg Collage entering her senior year this fall; and Vivian Sun, High School Senior! Wishing you both success in your future endeavors!
June, 2017
Lab celebration of 3 new grants!
May 19, 2017
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart_vascular_institute/research/research_retreat/index.html
Dr. Nicola Diny was awarded today The Myocarditis Foundation Research Fellowship for 2017-2018 in Basic Research!
Congratulations Dr. Diny!
Other presentations from our lab at the Cardiovascular Retreat may 19, 2017!
March 28, 2017
Dr. Guobao Chen had the honor of presenting his research today at the Keystone Symposium. Dr Chen had both an oral presentation and a poster and was awarded the Keystone Symposia Scholarship Certificate!
Congratulations Dr. Chen!
March 23, 2017
Pathology Young Investigator’s Day at Johns Hopkins
March 16, 2017- Press Release
Rare Type of Immune Cell Responsible for Progression of Heart Inflammation to Heart Failure in Mice
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/rare_type_of_immune_cell_responsible_for_progression_of_heart_inflammation_to_heart_failure_in_mice
March 7, 2017
Congratulations to Nicola Diny for successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Nicola Diny!
January 2017
2016 MF Fellowship Research Grant Recipient-Dr. Guobao Chen
Dr. Guobao Chen was awarded today The Myocarditis Foundation Research Fellowship for 2017-2018 for his work on “The Role of PDGFRa+ Cardiac Fibroblast in Myocarditis”.
Congratulations Dr. Chen!
2016
December 7, 2016
The back cover of the European Journal of Immunology features an H & E picture from our latest publication!
June 3rd
Cardiovascular Research Retreat
Our students and fellows presented posters.
Congratulations to Paul who won first place in the Stanley L. Blumenthal, MD Basic Science Poster Competition at the retreat!
May 26th
Postdoctoral Retreat at Johns Hopkins
One of our postdoctoral fellows, Guobao (Paul) Chen, Ph.D., presented a poster.
May 20th
The American Heart Association Fellowships
Congratulations to Xuezhou (Snow) Hou, William Bracamonte-Baran, Ph.D., and Hee Sun Choi, M.S. on receiving fellowships from the American Heart Association!
March 30th
Pathology Young Investigator’s Day at Johns Hopkins
Our Ph.D. candidate students and one of our postdoctoral fellows presented posters.
Dr. William Bracamonte-Baran
Nicola Diny
Xuezhou (Snow) Hou
HeeSun Choi
Congratulations to our Ph.D. candidate, Nicola Diny, M.S., who won an award for Excellence in Translational Research for her poster presentation at this event!