Perony Nogueira

Perony Nogueira

PhD Candidate Focus Area: Aortic Valve Development and Elastogenesis Research Interest: Perony’s project aims to understand the origin of the pigment producing cells in the aortic valve and which cells are responsible for elastin production within the leaflets....
Katherine Kaiser

Katherine Kaiser

PhD Student Focus Area: Calcification mechanisms. Research Interest: Investigating the fundamental mechanistic differences between homeostatic Osteoblast mineralization and pathological vascular calcification via the release of extracellular vesicles. Education: BS –...
Sophie Ashbrook

Sophie Ashbrook

PhD Candidate Focus Area: Calcification mechanisms and extracellular vesicle formation. Research Interest: Working to understand the mechanisms of extracellular vesicles and the key role they play in the development and potential prevention of vascular calcification...
Aasma Dahal

Aasma Dahal

PhD Student Focus Area: Peripheral hemodynamics, NIRS imaging and vascular calcification. Research Interest: Aasma’s research focuses on development of optical imaging techniques for detecting vascular calcification through peripheral imaging. Awards: Fulbright...
Ana Valentin

Ana Valentin

PhD Candidate Focus Area: Effect of relaxin receptor agonist on vascular calcification. Research Interest: Currently, there is no existing treatment to resorb existing plaque in the cardiovascular system. Her project proposes the study of a small molecule relaxin...