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Tina Izard, Priya R. Banerjee, Bernard Kok Receive 2015 AHA Awards

Tina Izard, associate professor at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), and Research Associates Priya R. Banerjee and Bernard Kok of TSRI’s California campus each has received 2015 American Heart Association (AHA) awards.

Izard won a two-year grant-in-aid for her project “Structure and function of cardiomyopathy-associated metavinculin mutant.” A crystallographer and cell biologist, Izard studies the structural dynamics of signaling mediators of adhesion junctions. For more on her research, visit Izard’s faculty webpage and lab website.

Banerjee, a member of the Deniz lab, and Kok, a member of the Saez lab, received AHA postdoctoral fellowships. Banerjee’s project is “Mechanism of amyloid and apoptosis regulation as a potential cardioprotective role of Hsp27 at the single-molecule level.” Kok’s project is titled “An integrated approach to establish the role of LYPLAL1 in diabetes and cardiovascular disease.”





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Lerner Lab Image Appears as ‘Biomedical Picture of the Day’
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Biomedical Picture of the Day, a nonprofit website showcasing contemporary biomedical research, has featured an image from the Lerner lab’s recent findings. This scanning electron microscopy image shows a natural killer cell (left)—created from a leukemia cell by antibody treatment—attacking another leukemia cell. For more information, see the News&Views article or PNAS paper.