Univ. of Cincinnati Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neurobiology Dept

Congratulations to Dr. Wang on receiving a five-year award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study "Impact of micro- and nanoplastics on heart health and disease"

PhD student Georgios Siokatas (Drosatos lab) presents his research "Post-transcriptional suppression of the cardioprotective miR-30 family by cardiomyocyte KLF5 and circPRDM5 transcript variants" at the 2026 International Society for Heart Research-North America Section conference.

A special thank you to Liz Mancz and Taylor Peach (Sah lab) for organizing the 2025–26 P&P Student Seminar Series, and to the 12 graduate students who presented their latest research findings.

PhD candidate Kajol Thapa (Drosatos lab) presents her research "Tissue-dependent effects of FGF21 in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction" during the student-organized seminar series.

PhD candidate Liz Mancz (Sah lab) presents her research "Airway inflammation and fear: connecting the dots through interleukin-1" during the student-organized seminar series.

Congratulations to Meredith Dove and Shruthi Satheesh, the winners of the Mark A. Snowdon Memorial Award, in recognition of their outstanding academic achievements in the Special Master's Program in Physiology!

Congratulations to the Capstone Award Winners in the Special Master's Program in Physiology : Caroline Yaeger (1st place), Mona Hajjar (2nd place), and Mollie Tucker (3rd place)

Sah (left) and Wohleb (right) labs and collaborators publish 'A Novel Interoceptive Subfornical Organ to Infralimbic Cortex Mechanism Relays Airway Inflammation Effects on Fear Extinction' in the "Journal of Neuroinflammation."

Dr. Perez-Tilve and collaborators recently published in 'Nature', reporting that "GLP-1R–GIPR–PPARα/γ/δ quintuple agonism corrects obesity and diabetes in mice."

Dr. Drosatos and colleagues recently published in 'Heart Failure Reviews', reviewing the "International Utah Cardiac Recovery Symposium (U-CARS) 2025: translational and basic science proceedings."