March 16, 2023

Diego Lema MD, PhD, was awarded the Grover M Hutchins MD Memorial research Award

February 20, 2023

Abdel Rahman Daoud, Master’s student in the Cihakova lab presented his work to the new student recruits in the Blomberg School of Public Health.

January 11, 2023

Dr. Cihakova was interviewed for News on Cancer Discovery

https://aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscovery/article/doi/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-NB2022-0082/712503/Cardiac-Antigen-Implicated-in-ICI-Linked?cdnewslink

December 22, 2022

We congratulate David Elias for receiving his American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship and Diego Lema MD, PhD on receiving his American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship!

 

 

2022 Lab Picture (December 9, 2022)-Welcome to our new students!

October 3, 2022

It has been an honor to represent our laboratory’s work at the 2022 8th Annual Golf Tournament (Trump National Golf Club, Potomac Falls, VA) in support of the Matthew Vernon Poyner Memorial Foundation.
We thank the Poyner family for all their support !

August 2022

Please welcome Dr. Daniela Ciháková as our new Deputy Director for Faculty Development.

As Deputy Director for Faculty Development, Daniela will continue Dr. Charles Eberhart’s efforts to establish a robust and individualized mentoring program supporting junior faculty in the Department of Pathology. Junior faculty face high attrition rates due to challenges in finding effective mentorship, identifying the main research goals for their labs, securing grant funding, and obtaining resources to support career development and research. Daniela will set up mentoring committees for new junior faculty members with a focus on their carrier needs and scholarship path. Daniela will work with new hires and struggling faculty to identify grant opportunities. Daniela will also work with other members of the departmental promotions committee to provide analysis of candidates’ strengths and weaknesses before they go before the university-wide promotion committee.

 

 

July 2022

Dr. Diego A. Lema presented at the  American Heart Association , Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2022-July 25-28, 2022

Press release available at :https://cantargia.com/en/press-releases/cantargia-reports-new-positive-preclinical-efficacy-data-for-can10-supporting-development-in-myocarditis

  

May 2022

HeeSun Choi PhD Graduation!

 

Awards:

Taejoon Won PhD, was presented the Grover M Hutchins MD Memorial research Award as well as the Young Investigator’s award in Immunopathology

Diego Alberto Lema Rodriguez MD, PhD has won the Young Investigator’s award for his work “A monoclonal antibody blocking IL-1 receptor accessory protein reduces acute viral myocarditis severity” and will be presenting his work at the Pathology Grand Rounds in June 2022

Vitali Rusinkevich received his award for completion of his post doctoral fellowship 

November 2021- Our lab is growing! Welcome to all the new students

 

June-August 2021

Hannah Kalinoski (PhD candidate) has had a very productive spring and summer and was honored to be able to present her ongoing research at multiple meetings and workshops. In addition, she was the recipient of numerous awards.

Awards

1) MMI T32 Training Grant (2021-2022)

2) Meeting the Challenges of Myocarditis Workshop Poster Presentation: Winner in Basic Research Category (2021)

3) Pathology Young Investigators’ Day Presentation: Winner in Basic Research Category (2021)

4) Fredrick Bang Award (2021-2022)

Presentations

2) Meeting the Challenges of Myocarditis Workshop Poster Presentation

3) Pathology Young Investigators’ Day Presentation

4) AAI Immunology 2021 Conference

October 2020

July 2020

 

Hannah Kalinoski Award – MMI Molecular and Cellular Basis of Infectious Disease T32 Training Grant

Project Title – Presence of myosin specific tissue resident memory T-cells in the heart predispose development of immune checkpoint inhibitor-myocarditis

 

 

 

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!

 

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.

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.

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!