Thien Phan Texas A&M University School of Medicine Bryan, TX Impact of lymphangiogenesis on renal phosphate handling following kidney injury Thien Phan and Joseph M. Rutkowski Overconsumption of inorganic phosphate (Pi) increases renal dysfunction, tubular cell damage, and vascular calcification, hallmarks of kidney disease. Conversely, acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) result […]

Evan Morrison University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus Denver, CO UBR4 mediates the quality control of a novel N-degron pathway Evan Morrison and Emma Larkin-Gero The open reading frame does more than merely encode a linear peptide sequence; it is a reservoir of regulatory information. The very beginning of the coding region plays […]

Manette Tanelus Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA But does it work? Evaluating the safety and immunogenicity of a novel Zika vaccine Manette Tanelus, Krisangel Lopez, Shaan Smith, John Muller, Dawn Auguste The flavivirus genus includes many mosquito-borne viruses of medical importance such as Yellow Fever virus, Dengue virus, and Zika virus. Zika […]

Yvonne Vasquez University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA Comparative RNA sequencing analysis identifies therapeutic targets for children with difficult-to-treat cancers and leads to remarkable disease control in an ultra-rare tumor Childhood cancer outcomes have improved over the past few decades, but patients with difficult-to-treat tumors still fare poorly. Tumor DNA profiling reveals therapeutic […]