
Omar Brito-Estrada
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Omar Brito-Estrada
@OmarBritoStrada
•PhD Candidate | AHA Fellow @MDBCincy Makarewich Lab | Mol Cardio Bio ❤️🧬🧫🧪 | Cincinnati Children’s/University of Cincinnati •Auburn University at Montgomery







Congrats to #MakLab grad student Dr. Omar Brito-Estrada on earning his PhD and walking at the @UCincyMedicine winter grad ceremony🎓👏🏼 It has been an absolute privilege to mentor you🤩 Wishing you continued success as you begin your postdoc in the @McKinseyLab in Colorado🫀🧬



@CircRes Sept 26th Issue is Out! ahajrnls.org/3wPOBJJ Cover: Immunofluorescence staining of heart sections from mice demonstrate the efficient cardiac delivery & expression of DWORF (green) which localizes to the SR in cardiomyocytes; cell membrane-pink, nuclei-blue.

🚨New paper out in Circ Res! Congrats to 1st author DR @OmarBritoStrada & the team👏🏼Here we show DWORF gene therapy boosts cardiac calcium handling, enhances mitochondrial energetics, & protects against heart failure progression🫀💪🏼 Read it here 😍👇🏼 doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRE…




















First day of 22nd (Omar), 21st (Keira), 18th (Taylor) and 17th (Fiona) grade! They grow up so fast 🥹 Looking forward to an exciting year! 🫀🧬🔬




A very successful week for the #MakLab at #BCVS23 🫀🧬 I am very proud of @keira_hassel, @Taylor_coughlin and Johanna Huelsman for their fantastic poster presentations and @OmarBritoStrada for delivering an exceptional talk that stirred a very active Q&A 👏🏼💪🏼 @MDBCincy @CincyMSTP

We’re published!! 📚🧬👩🏼🔬So proud to share the product of lots of hard work from myself, @OmarBritoStrada and @CatMak23. Enjoy learning about Microproteins: Overlooked regulators of physiology and disease #MakLab cell.com/iscience/fullt…
