Congratulations to the Valve Research Team for presenting their research at the 6th annual HMS Surgery Research Day. Special shoutout to Maria Saraf for being one of 16 people who had podium presentations and for receiving the 'Excellence in Surgery Research' award! The rest of the team presented their posters during the poster session.

Maria Saraf presented a poster on her research project titled, “Comparing Early Cellular Changes In The Myocardium And Skeletal Muscle In A Swine Model Of Metabolic Syndrome” at the Annual International Anesthesia Research Society Meeting (IARS) on May 6-9 at Washington, DC. Good job!

Congratulations to Maria Saraf for being selected to present her research titled, “Decreased Myocardial Recovery Due To Oxidative Stress in Diabetics: Alterations in MAPK Pathway and PGC-1α” at the Research Assistant Learning Initiative (RALI) Mini-Grand Rounds at BIDMC. Keep up the good work!

The Echo Lab presented their research at the 39^th Annual Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Meeting (SCA) on April 22-26, 2017 at Orlando, FL. Congratulations to Rabia Amir, Jelliffe Jeganathan, and Yannis Amador for presenting posters and a special shoutout to Maria Saraf for giving a podium presentation on the research project titled "Neuropeptide Y_3-36 Incorporated Into PVAX Nanoparticle Improves Angiogenesis In A Murine Model Of Myocardial Ischemia" at her first conference. Congratulations to everyone for representing the lab so well at the...