April 25, 2024
Congratulations to former post-doctoral fellow Dr. Soah Lee (now an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at SungKyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea) for published a first author paper on the RM1 group project in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This was a multi-institutional/multi-PI work involving 6 labs at University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Washington, and Stanford to address the pathologic phenotype of myosin heavy chain 7 mutation G256E.
April 20, 2024
Congratulations to Ms. Sidra Xu, undergraduate research assistant in lab, for winning the highly competitive Barry Goldwater Scholarship that will provide financial support and educational expenses during her final year of college.
April 8, 2024
Congratulations to lab members Tahmina Samad, Alireza Raissadati, Carissa Lee, Sidra Xu, Paul Heinrich, and former lab member William Goodyer for publishing a book chapter on the history, development, and disease of the cardiac conduction system in Current Topics in Developmental Biology
April 1, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Wu for being selected as the Chair-Elect of the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) Council of the American Heart Association for 2024-2026. He will assume this role on July 1st, 2024 and then become the Council Chair in July1st, 2026.
March 15, 2024
Congratulations to former lab manager Daniel Lee who has been accepted to medical school at Uniformed Services University for Health Sciences (USUHS) and will be starting his training to become a physician in July, 2024.
March 1, 2024
Congratulations to Carissa Lee, the Wu lab manager, for her acceptances to multiple MD-PhD/MSTP training programs including University of California, San Diego, University of Washington, and Case Western University. She will be starting her training to become a physician scientist at University of Washington School of Medicine in June, 2024.
January 31, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Wu for his election to the American Association of Physician (AAP). The AAP is one of the oldest medical honor society in the country that recognizes exceptionally accomplished physician-scientists for their contributions to the biomedical research field.