MCRI Blanton Lab

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! careers.tuftsmedicine.org/us/en/job/R215…

Congrats to Xuehong Cao, Audrey Tripp, Yali Zhang and colleagues for collaborative Blanton and Galper lab paper showing protective role of cGMP-PKG1 signaling in opposing ventricular arrhythmia in the diabetic heart.

Congratulations Santo Kalathingal and Anna Burke for great presentations of our lab’s work at 2025 BCVS meeting!

Congrats to lab alum Suchita Pande for her two early career grants in her new faculty position!

Cell-Penetrating Peptide Enhances Tafazzin Gene Therapy in Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome mdpi.com/3093220 #mdpiijms via @IJMS_MDPI Congratulations to @rahul_8485 for this novel and timely work @tuftsmcresearch @TuftsMedSchool @TuftsGSBS @ChinLabTufts @BarthSyndrome

Great MCRI Annual Retreat at Woods Hole. Wonderful talks by Zolt Arany, Mukesh Jain, Shayn Peirce-Cottler, Howard Chen, Junichi Sadoshima, and Elena Aikawa! Lab members giving elevator pitches. Great lightning talks by MCRI trainees (forgot to take pic of Anna Burke).

What do flies, dogs, mice, humans have in common? They all regulate the RNA splicing factor hnRNPL in their left ventricle and need it for normal heart function. doi.org/10.1002/1873-3…

Congratulations Casey Turner on her F32 grant from the NIH and her mentor Jennifer DuPont. @TuftsMedicalCtr @TuftsMCResearch

Cardurion has raised $260M to support development of two novel drugs in development for cardiovascular disease. Learn more: ow.ly/mpzU50SIr18

Congrats Suchita Pande (between lab alum/Senior Scientist Tim Calamaras and MCRI PI Lija Swain) for BCVS poster presentation showing therapeutic efficacy of MLK3 augmentation in heart failure model.

Congratulations to Ty Jones our summer BDBS student for a great final presentation!

@PilarAlcaidePhD @TuftsUniversity @TuftsMedSchool @TuftsGSBS @RamonaE_91 @AbeBayer @SashaSmolgovsky @MariaAntoniaZ97 @ErinSand54 Wow! Can’t wait to see what Friday looks like

Happy Monday from our lab to yours @TuftsUniversity @TuftsMedSchool @TuftsGSBS

If you’re at APS come see Anna Burke in our lab present her work showing cardiac myocyte-specific role of the PKG substrate MLK3 in maintaining normal LV function in pressure overload. Poster P0901 from 5:15-6:15 PM.

Congratulations Loveth Raymond for outstanding poster on MLK3 as novel inhibitor of cardiac myocyte NFAT. And thanks Abe Bayer and others for stopping by!

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Congratulations to the outstanding team from the Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI) at Tufts Medical Center. They are demonstrating national leadership in cardiovascular science innovation and discovery at an American Heart Association conference this week. #BCVS23

@dkassjhu @navidkoleini @HFSA @m_keykhaei Enjoyed meeting Miriam and Navid at #BCVS23 and hearing about their inroads into novel metabolic pathways.

Good to see MCRI alum ⁦@calamaras_tim⁩ at #BCVS23 ⁦@TuftsMCResearch⁩ ⁦@BlantonLab⁩ ⁦@MTChinMDPhD⁩