Yesterday we had a three-lab celebration of three recent growth hormone (GH) related NIH grants: Kopchick lab (R01 renewal on GHR antagonism on lifespan), Zhu lab (R01 on GH and OA), Holub lab...
Today we had our first lab meeting for this new 2023-2024 school year. We have recently tripled our lab size. One new postdoc fellow (Anupama) and two new PhD students (Shadi Moradi and Siqi Ren)...
Congratulations to the lab for publishing a paper in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatology, entitled 'Promotion of joint degeneration and chondrocyte metabolic dysfunction by excessive growth hormone...
We are super excited that we received a five-year grant (a total of $2.4 million) from the Hevolution Foundation!! This new grant mechanism is targeting promising aging focused research. We are...
Great news for the Zhu lab to receive a three-year R15 grant from NIH-NIAMS!! Dr. Liu (co-I), Dr. Vishu Puri (co-I) from Diabetes Institute, Dr. Brian Clark (student mentoring committee), and Dr...
Shouan and our awesome medical student Trent Davis are attending the Orthopedic Research Society 2022 annual meeting in Dallas, TX. Trent presented a poster titled 'Growth hormone and development...
Congratulations to the lab for publishing a paper in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage! In this study, we investigate if ‘carbon stress’, a newly found mechanism that links obesity and...
Congratulations to the Zhu lab for receiving the FIRST award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) to further the Sirt5 and protein malonylation study. We extremely...
Congratulations to the lab for publishing its first paper in the journal Cartilage. In this paper, we investigated the role of sirtuin 5 (Sirt5) in regulating protein malonylation (MaK) and cellular...
We are very grateful to receive ANRF/AFAR research funding from Arthritis National Research Foundation to continue our exciting research on Sirt5, protein malonylation, and osteoarthritis...