Blackman Lab • University of Virginia •  Department of Biomedical Engineering • 415 Lane Road • MR-5 Room, 2226 • Charlottesville, VA 22908 USA
Blackman Lab awarded a 5-year NIH R01 Grant, “Hemodynamic Adaptation of Human Endothelial Intracellular Junctions.”
Drs. Schwartz, Blackman, Helmke Labs awarded a 5-year NIH Biomedical Research Partnership Grant, “ Engineering an Atherosclerosis Resistant Extracellular Matrix.”
Mike Simmers’ paper showing how the fluid shear stress environment regulates endothelial cell migration, morphology, and polarity in the presence and absence of growth factors is now in press in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart-Circulatory Physiology! June March
Nicole Hastings selected as a pre-doc trainee for the NIH Basic Cardiovascular Biology Training Grant
 
Devin Weinberg, MD/PhD student in the UVa MSTP program, joins the lab!
September Lab News Nicole Hastings’ paper showing phenotypic modulation and pro-inflammatory priming of human smooth muscle cells in an innovative hemodynamic endothelial - smooth muscle cell co-culture model is now in press in the American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology!
Kathleen McDowell, a rising 4th year BME undergraduate student  in the Blackman Lab was awarded a prestigious UVA Harrison Research Award to study the role of connexin expression in endothelial and smooth muscle cross-talk in a cell culture model of atherogenesis.
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Dr. Blackman was invited to serve on the American Heart Association Bioengineering study section
October 2007 Press Release on Lab’s new paper published on first human-based cellular co-culture system, HemoShear, to model earliest stages of vascular heart disease outside of the human body.