News & Announcements

Aya Masri was awarded the Northwestern University Academic Year Undergraduate Research Grant on January 24, 2023. This research grant provides funding for select undergraduate research projects, including data collection, analysis, and synthesis of results. Aya’s independent project is titled “Identification of Novel, Mechanosensitive Proteins in the Human and Mouse Endothelium.”

Annmarie Dominguez was presented the Driskill Graduate Student Service Award on Friday, September 15, 2023. This award is given every year to a DGP student who enriches the DGP student experience through leadership, service, and/or advocacy within the DGP and Northwestern communities. Past winners have served in leadership positions in graduate student organizations, advocated for student concerns with DGP and university leadership, and performed outreach in the Chicago community. We are particularly interested in nominees that help create a more diverse, equitable and supportive DGP community.

Another round of congratulations and celebration for Danielle's well-earned Best Poster Award at the GRC on Angiogenesis held at Newport, RI. Danielle's poster featured research on the "Spatial and temporal design principles that guide large vessel growth."

The Arispe Lab bids farewell to long-time undergraduate research trainee, Cyrus Abrahamson. Cyrus worked under the direct supervision of Jocelyn Salvador and contributed to the publication of an article in 2022. However, all great things must come to an end, as he transitions over to medical school, we all wish him the very best!

Northwestern University professors Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD, Murali Prakriya, PhD, Linda A. Teplin, PhD and Teri W. Odom, PhD, have been selected as 2022 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.

A huge WELCOME to Andrew Wang joining the Arispe Lab on November 11, 2022. Andrew is an undergraduate student at Northwestern working under the direct tutelage of Millie Romay.

NU SACNAS, won the 2022 Chapter Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Annmarie Dominguez, the current president is shown in the photo receiving the award. This is the very first-time Northwestern University has received an award. Northwestern's chapter was founded in 2013.

A new grant will fund the hiring of 15 new tenure-track faculty, along with tactics to ensure the success of faculty members from underrepresented populations.

Chloe Symons concludes summer program and research in the lab with a presentation titled "The Role of ZFP36 in Endothelial Angiogenesis Regulation within a Retinal Model."

Kiran Garapati presents his poster titled "SARS-CoV-2 Cytokines Effect in Endothelial PANoptosis."

Arispe lab bids farewell to summer interns whose stay at the was short-lived. But after all, what's better than a summer spent doing science with friends?!

Hannah Sunshine traveled to Lewiston, Maine, and presented a poster on the RNA-decay protein ZFP36 at the 2022 GRC meeting on Notch Signaling in Development, Regeneration and Disease.