Steve Jones

Congratulations to Dr. Jonah Stephan on defending his PhD yesterday!  His dissertation on emergency granulopoiesis and wound healing after myocardial infarction is exactly the kind of mechanistic work that advances the field. We are proud that he trained in the Center.

We are excited to host Dr. Loren Wold (pictured) from The Ohio State University, a leading expert on cardiac physiology and environmental toxicology, for today’s Environmental Medicine Grand Rounds.

I am incredibly thankful to be honored by the American Physiology Society in the name of Dr. Guyton. Extremely thankful to my mentors at at UofL SOM, the Envirome Institute, and the Center for Cardiometabolic Science (and beyond) for supporting my laboratory and career. Special thanks to Steven Jones, Bradford Hill, and Merry Lindsey for believing in me especially when I didn’t necessarily believe in myself, and for wholeheartedly supporting me. Now I better get to work and continue the marathon.

🔔ATTENTION🔔. There is still time to join us in Minneapolis, MN for the 2026 International Society for Heart Research Conference! This premier event has been one of my favorite conferences as both a trainee and now faculty. Hope to see you there! ishrnorthamerican.org/meetings/

@CardioMetaboSci @BMGUofL1 @UofLEnvirome @UofLGradSchool @cmhoward05 @mbhouk @emmcnally @bettycoffman @AHAScience @BCVSearlyCareer Big congrats!

It is a great pleasure to introduce Dr. Caitlin Howard—AHA Predoctoral Fellow, macrophage mechanist, and incoming Northwestern postdoc with Prof. Elizabeth McNally. Dr. Howard (pictured) recently defended her PhD. Congratulations! #NewPhD #CardioTwitter #WomenInScience

@psatolab @uabbme @UABEngineering @UABCardiology Congratulations!

Expressing my gratitude to all @uabbme students for electing me the best speaker of the semester (SP2026). Thank you! What a pleasant surprise. Wishing everyone a safe Summer break. @UABEngineering @UABCardiology

For those that do not get to attend Ilaria Ferrari's or Caitlin Wilkerson's talks, or those wishing to learn more about the research they are both doing in the Center, both Trainees of the Jones Lab will be presenting posters in the Friday evening poster session at the #APSSummit

Headed to #APSsummit this week? Interested in cardiometabolic health and disease? The Center has several Trainee presentations that you should check out.

On Friday, Ilaria Ferrari, an MD/PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Jones, will give an oral presentation on the beneficial effects of voluntary wheel exercise following myocardial infarction.

Congratulations to Iona Palmer for the acceptance of her paper in JACC-BTS and congratulations to Avery Kendall for the acceptance of her paper in AJP-Heart this week. Keeping my fingers crossed for the three currently under review and the others about to be submitted.

@DrHelenECollin1 @ankendall44 @APSPhysiology @ajpheartcirc @BE_UofL @uoflmedschool @UofLMedicine @UofLEnvirome @CardioMetaboSci @UofLEVPRI @cardio10s Excellent. They must be butter (Stuart Scott). I will ask them about the staircase phenomenon when I see them.

These two are on a roll! Massive congratulations to both Iona Palmer and Avery Kendall for each being selected as Henry Pickering Bowditch Abstracts of Distinction at next week’s APS summit Conference. Proud of you both

@blackwood_erik @uofunuip @NEH_CVRTI @UtahCMH Well done. What’s your #1 piece of advice for trainees?

When you’re exhausted from grant reviews and get surprised at your ⁦@uofunuip⁩ department banquet with love from your lab for mentoring #MOY. Best job in the world! Excuse the feels. ⁦@NEH_CVRTI⁩ ⁦⁦@UtahCMH⁩

@DrHelenECollin1 @APSPhysiology @BE_UofL @UofLMedicine @uoflmedschool @UofLEnvirome @ajpheartcirc @JACCJournals @CardioMetaboSci @BCVSearlyCareer @ankendall44 Congratulations to them and to you!

@CardioMetaboSci @UofLEnvirome @EsserKaryn @UofLMedicine @mbhouk @UF @APSPhysiology Wonderful presentation and stimulating discussion.

We had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Karyn Esser this past Friday for the Division of Environmental Medicine Weekly Ground Rounds. Dr. Esser gave an incredibly thought provoking seminar on skeletal muscle biology and its regulation by the circadian clock.

@Jess4genes @mace_whee @FralinBiomed Well done, Dr Wheeler!

Congratulations to Dr. Mason Wheeler on the successful defense of her thesis. I’m beyond proud. @mace_whee @FralinBiomed

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Gibb, an Assistant Professor in the Center, for being named as one of the 2025 Top Reviewers for #JACCBTS. We are proud of your accomplishments!

@HMRI_Pasadena @khajashameem @nhpetunia Congratulations, @nhpetunia!

Dr. Nicole Purcell (@nhpetunia) has been elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA)—recognizing her contributions to cardiovascular science and leadership in the field.

@rosenzweig_a @NatureCVR Congratulations to the entire team, Tony!

Out now!🎉🔬Congrats to Chao Wu and collaborating Meng Wang lab colleagues on “Large-scale identification of protein biomarkers and therapeutic targets in heart and brain disease” (@NatureCVR). The study maps heart-brain links via plasma proteins as biomarkers/targets.🧠🫀