03/18/2024
Dr. Yue Yuan won the 1st prize in the poster competition at the 2nd Annual Nancy Chang, PhD Research Symposium at BCM.
12/25/203
Dr. Tingting Li received a postdoc fellowship award from the American Heart Association (2024- 2025).
11/19/2023
PREP scholar William Whitfield won a poster award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Phoenix, AZ. Congratulations, Will 🎉 !
10/20/2023
Dr. Na Li was invited as a visiting professor to the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. During this visit, Dr. Li gave a lecture to the WIAS graduate program and guided the local PhD students in performing intracardiac electrical stimulation studies.
08/02/2023
Dr. Na Li was inducted into the Fellowship of the American Heart Association (FAHA) during the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions 2023 in Boston.
07/31/2023
Dr. Na Li gave a featured presentation titled "Molecular Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation: New Kid on the Block" at the 5th Asian Cardiovascular Symposium, a pre-meeting symposium of BCVS-2023, in Boston.
07/25/2023
Dr. Tingting Li received the Heart Rhtyhm Society Research Fellowship to investigate the molecular mechanisms of CCD.
07/17/2023
Dr. Li attended the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, held in Glasgow, UK, from July 2 - 7. She organized and chaired a session titled "Emerging role of NLRP3 inflammasome as a therapeutic target in cardiovascular and infectious diseases
06/23/2023
Xiaolei, Jia, and Yue's paper titled "Downregulation of FKBP5 Promotes Atrial Arrhythmogenesis" was published in Circulation Research, which was highlighted by an accompanying editorial in the same journal.
03/21/2023
Dr. Na Li received the BCM 2023 Women of Excellence Award
03/02/2023
Postdoc Dr. Jia Song received a poster award at the 2023 Gordon Research Conference - Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms
12/08/2022
Postdoc Dr. Yue Yuan received a postdoc fellowship award from American Heart Association (2023 - 2024).
07/01/2022
Dr. Li received the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award.
04/29/2022 - 05/01/2022
Dr. Song Jia presented two posters at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in San Francisco, CA 🎉👩🏫. Congratulations!
06/01/2021
Dr. Li is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
12/16/2020
Student Larry Scott Jr. successfully defended his thesis virtually. Way to go, Dr. Scott 👨🏾🎓🎉!
09/24/2020
Li lab received the FY21 Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) pilot award to study the mechanisms of cardiac conduction disorders.
09/16/2020
Dr. Na Li participated in an NHLBI Atrial Fibrillation Working Group on Molecular Pathophysiology and Genetic Mechanisms as a speaker and panel discussant.
07/01/2020
Li lab (BCM) and McConnel lab (UH) jointly received the BCM/UH Collaborative Pilot Grant to study cardiac repair with the reprogrammed cardiac conduction cells.
05/20/2020
Dr. Na Li received Norton Rose Fulbright Teaching Award
07/23/2019
Summer students Arren Simpson (University of Detroit Mercy) and Vanessa Liu (Texas A& M) gave beautiful presentations on their summer projects to the BCM SMART Program. Congratulations!
04/10/2019
Student Larry Scott Jr. won the best abstract award at the 6th CVRI symposium. Congratulations!
11/12/2018
Our work on "cardiac inflammasome and atrial fibrillation" was highlighted in Circulation.
08/01/2018
Student Larry Scott Jr. gave an oral presentation at the BCVS Scientific Sessions in San Antonio, TX.
07/31/2018
Dr. Li was interviewed for the publication of our first study that demonstrated the involvement of cardiac inflammasome in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation.
06/11/2018
Our work on "cardiac inflammasome and atrial fibrillation" was highlighted in Nature Reviews Cardiology.
07/17/2017
Student Larry Scott Jr. received a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association (2017 - 2019).