News & Announcements
09.12.2025The lab took a much needed retreat that included workshops on stress-reduction, community arts, and concluded with a discussion on the lab's vision, values, and goals. Special thank you to Eric Budzinski, Director of Spiritual Wellness & Contemplative Practice, Maj Kargbo, Jamiece Adams, and Oslo Brewster, Director of Education, Program Manager, and Facilitator at the Office of Community Enrichment
09.05.2025Mariaelena Valentino, Margherita Zamberlan, and Milagros Romay represented the Arispe Lab at this year's departmental retreat. Mariaelena was awarded an oral-presentation slot to present on, "Capillary codes: Cracking the Molecular Identity of Brain Vasculature." Meanwhile Margherita won best Postdoc Poster with her topic: "Mapping the tempo of endothelial cell renewal reveals organ-specific heterogeneity." Millie presented a poster titled, "Sex as Biological Variable in AAA," which won the ultimate award of being published in Nature Cardiovascular Research.
09.01.2025Join us in congratulating Dr. Milagros (Millie) Romay for her promotion to Research Assistant Professor in Cell & Developmental Biology.
08.05.2025Lauded for her outstanding presentation that stood out for its clarity, depth, and impact, Ana Mompeón was awarded Best Trainee Talk of the 2024-2025 academic year. The Trainee Seminar Series featured 25 speakers from 11 different labs and resulted in 506 feedback entries received and tallied.
07.25.2025Jeonghyun Moon, former undergraduate in the Arispe Lab working under the direct tutelage of Milagros Romay, comes back to visit and bid a final farewell to all his former lab mates before heading east to Massachusetts, specifically MIT for graduate training.
07.09.2025The Arispe lab is thrilled to welcome Tarek Alnakhali, recent Neuroscience graduate from the University of Illinois Chicago! Tarek comes highly recommended and hit the ground running working alongside the laboratory manager, Sneza, as he becomes acclimated to the lab. Click here to read more about him.
07.01.2025The Arispe lab is excited to celebrate Jocelyn Salvador’s graduation from the Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences! The best part? She will be staying with us as a Postdoctoral Fellow, so we don’t have to say goodbye—just see her continue to excel and inspire us all.
05.30.2025May must be the month of farewells! Dr. Alan Poe concluded his medical training at Northwestern earlier this month and is wrapping up his research project at the Arispe lab on endothelial health. He is embarking on a new journey as a Pediatrician at Boston Children's Hospital this June.
05.14.2025Dr. Danielle Pi presented her final defense on May 14, 2025, titled "Endothelial Proliferation in the Aorta." Another wonderful scientist completes their training in the Arispe lab and moves on to pursue a medical degree. The lab is thrilled to celebrate Dr. Pi's transition to medical training.- 05.08.2025Dr. Jocelyn Salvador presented her final defense on May 8, 2025, titled "The Impact of Disturbed Flow on Endothelial Cells." We are extremely proud to see another wonderful scientist and person complete their training in the Arispe lab.
04.28.2025Dr. Sang Hoon Lee was Dr. Arispe's very first post-doctoral fellow when the laboratory resided in Boston, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lee visited the Arispe Lab in April. He started working in industry and is now the CEO/Founder of ABL Bio one of the top biotech companies in Korea. Dr. Lee recently licensed a BBB bispecific antibody shuttle platform for treatment of brain tumors to GSK. Click here to read the full press release.
04.14.2025This quarter we're shining the spotlight on Jocelynda Salvador, a senior predoctoral fellow in the Arispe. Click here to learn more about her.
03.01.2025The lab is excited to welcome Margherita Zamberlan to the team as a postdoctoral researcher. Margherita's academic career started at the Univeristy of Padova in Italy. Read more about her here.
02.24.2025Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered unique genetic and structural changes in endothelial cells in the brain after disrupting the blood-brain barrier, which may inform new therapeutic targets that promote blood-brain barrier repair after neurovascular injuries, according to a recent study.
01.26.2025Earlier this month Aya Masri, undergraduate researcher, attended the National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) held at Harvard University where she presented a poster titled, "Elucidating the Role of TAB11Ain Flow-Induced Endothelial Cell Polarity." We're excited to hear Aya is building up her network and sharing her research findings with the broader community.
01.21.2025Welcome Shodai Suzuki, new postdoctoral fellow in the Arispe lab. Shodai started on January 21. His academic training is in biochemistry. Shodai completed his PhD at Chiba University in Japan under the tutelage of Motoyuki Itoh. Read more about Shodai here.
01.13.2025The lab welcome's it's newest colleague: Henri Kolz. Henri joined the lab on January 13. His academic training is in biotechnology. Currently, he is working closely with Drs. Ana Mompeon and Mariaelena Valentino on projects related to vascular malformation and diseases. Read more about Henri here.
12.09.2024We are extremely proud and excited to announce Dr. Katiannah Moise presented her PhD Thesis Seminar to the Northwestern community on December 9, 2024. Plenty of bubbly drinks were shared among colleagues and friends in celebration of her. We wish her at the best of luck in the world on all future endeavors and have no doubt that she will do wonderful things as she moves forward in her career.
11.11.2024The lab welcomes Sakshi Jain, newly recruited Research Technologist! Read more about her here.
11.06.2024The lab welcomes Grace Seo, Research Aid and undergraduate student here at Northwestern! Read more about her here.
10.07.2024Katiannah's on how pharmacological and genetic perturbations of microtubule properties alter endothelial responses to laminar shear stress was recently published in Frontiers in Physiology. Read all about endothelial cell elongation and alignment in response to shear stress here.
09.09.2024Join us in welcoming Aiko Matsuda to the Arispe lab. Aiko joined the lab on September 9 as Research Technician II. We look forward to getting to know her. Visit the 'People' page to read her bio.
08.13.2024We are very proud and excited to celebrate with Katiannah Moise who has been recognized with the Driskill Graduate Program's Outstanding Student Service Award!
08.02.2024The lab welcomes Dr. Mariaelena Valentino, who is joining the Arispe lab this August 2024. Mariaelena work on Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM) disease was recently published by Circulation Research. To learn more about her, visit the 'People' page.
07.18.2024When it’s easier for the graduate student to travel to the mice than for the mice to travel to the graduate student! Danielle Pi, MSTP fellow, visited NYU Langone Health and was hosted by the Ramkhelawon Lab, working closely with Dio and Yogi.
07.17.2024Millie Romay, postdoctoral fellow, presents a talk titled, "Elucidating of the Molecular Progression of Hereditary Vascular Dementia in a Novel Mouse Model," at the GRC meeting on Notch Signaling in Development, Regeneration and Disease hosted at Bates College in Maine.
06.25.2024We bid farewell to Sarah Johnston, a fantastic lab mate, and wish her all the best in Medical School!
06.18.2024Annmarie Dominguez is featured in the June issue of Feinberg's Breakthroughs Newsletter. Click here to read more about her pursuit of a deeper understanding of Cell Biology.
06.04.2024"All of the qualities that you currently possess have already prepared you to succeed in academia.” The Graduate School shines a light on Katiannah Moise. Read more about her research interests and what sits on her bedside table here.
