PH.D. DISSERTATION OPPORTUNITY

This laboratory will support graduate students from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology or Physiology at VCU to conduct cardiovascular and renal research to complete their PhD dissertation.  A 3-year program will be proposed for basic and advanced trainings in the labortatory.  All graduate students will be trained to write a research training grant to apply for funding from NIH, American Heart Association or other agencies. Two manuscripts should be accepted by scientific journals with impact factor more than 5 for completion of PhD dissertation.  Currently, some interesting areas of research are as follows:

• Intracellular Vesicle Tranfficking and related Molecular Signaling in Coronary Arterial Cells.

• Dynamic Repair of Cell Membrane in the Regulation of Endothelial Cell Integrity and Function and in Atherosclerosis

• Regulatory Cell Autophagy, Necrosis and Apoptosis of Podocytes in vitro and in vivo

• Dedifferentiation and Transdifferentiation of Renal Cells in the Development of Hypertension and End-Stage Renal Disease