UToledo Physiology and Pharmacology

Dr. Charles Thodeti, PhD FAHA FCVS, professor in our department, recently received a $300,000 research grant from the American Heart Association to study how mechanical forces encourage the growth of new blood vessels. Congrats Dr. Thodeti!!! Read More: news.utoledo.edu/index.php/08_1…

Dr. Sailaja Paruchuri, a professor in the our department, is leading the The National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded project that will look at repurposing an existing asthma medication to treat acute lung injury. Congrats Dr. Paruchuri!!! Read more: news.utoledo.edu/index.php/08_0…

🌟 Save the date! 🌟The 50th Pharmacology Research Colloquium, hosted by The University of Toledo, is happening on Friday, June 21, 2024. We're thrilled to announce our distinguished keynote speaker, Dr. Hemal Patel, Professor at UC San Diego. Scan the QR code for more details!

Let's congratulate our students, Ms. Hemaa Sree Kumar and Ms. Adriana Alviter Plata who received the TAC New Investigator Travel Award to attend the Hypertension 2023 meeting which was held from September 7-10, 2023, in Boston, MA. Kudos to their mentor, Dr. Jasenka Zubcevic!

New Publication! Sharing a unique new case report published from the Kumar lab with Beng San Yeoh as the first author. This is a good example of where basic research could be truly translational albeit n=1! Congratulation guys.

New Publication! Congratulations to the members of Dr. Paruchuri's Lab on the recent publication of their manuscript in FASEB journal (Impact Factor 4.8). Click on the link below to find the article: faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj… #Lungfibroblasts #Asthma #Prostaglandins #YAP #TGF

Annual Department Retreat! On Friday, August 25 the department held their annual retreat at Oak Openings Metropark in Whitehouse, Ohio. The event was packed with fun activities, wonderful presentations, creativity and camaraderie. Thanks to everyone for making it a huge success.

New Publication! Congratulations to the members of Dr. Charles Thodeti's Lab on the recent publication of their manuscript in Hypertension (Impact Factor 7.71). The article can be found at lnkd.in/gSJmrNXp. #utoledo #hypertrophy #TRPV4 #heart #research #Physiology

Engineered Microbiome-medicine for Hypertension- is it possible? Yes indeed! Pioneering work from the Joe lab demonstrate that engineered microbiota to produce ACE2 lowers hypertension. (Mei…Joe, 2023, in press, Pharmacological Research (IF 10.33) #science #hypertension #ACE2

New Publication! Congratulations to the members of Paruchuri Lab and other department members on the recent publication of their manuscript in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (Impact Factor 5.31). Give it a read! #Science #mastcells #butyrate onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc…

Save the date!!! Please save the date for the Ohio Physiological Society Annual Meeting, 2023. This year's meeting will be hosted by the University of Toledo at the Hilton Garden Inn in Perrysburg, OH on October 6th-7th. More details to come from President Dr. Charles Thodeti!

Invite to Speak at the University of South Dakota! Congrats to Dr. Vijay-Kumar for being invited to present a seminar at the University of South Dakota, August 9-10, 2023, under the auspices of the annual symposium of the University's Center for Brain and Behavior Research.

Medical News Today! Our Chair, Dr. Bina Joe was recently featured in an article in Medical News Today regarding gut bacteria and the importance of gut bacteria research. The full article can be found here: medicalnewstoday.com/articles/gut-b…. @BinaJoe4 @UToledoMed #news #gut #bacteria

Let's congratulate our faculty, staff, and students who received travel awards to attend the Hypertension 2023 Scientific Sessions which will be held from September 7-10, 2023 in Boston, MA. The awardees are: Dr. Piu Saha Dr. Pritam Bardhan Mr. Sachin Aryal Mr. Ishan Manandhar

In the News! Click on the link below to read the article that appeared on Toledo Blade featuring our Department Chair, Dr. Bina Joe. This article on hypertension is titled "Pressure point: Often unnoticed, hypertension could lead to a host of diseases". toledoblade.com/health-well-be…

New Publication! Congratulations to the members of Kumar Lab and other department members on the recent acceptance of their manuscript to be published in FUNCTION (Impact Factor 6.2).

Faculty Delivered Invited Presentation at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS), India! Dr. Charles Thodeti from our department delivered an invited talk "A TRP to Cardiac Remodeling" at the Department of Biotechnology, SVIMS, Tirupati, India on June 26, 2023.

Dr. Charles Thodeti, presented an invited talk "TRPV4 mechanotransduction in Angiogenesis" at Vasculata-2023 organized by Tulane University from July 16-20, 2023, New Orleans, USA. Vasculata is a summer course organized by North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO).

Trainee Invited as Speaker! Sachin Aryal, trainee from Joe Lab, was recently invited to be one of the speakers for the Early Career Researchers (ECR) webinar by Proteintech. It was held on for July 25, 2023, at 10am (EST). Congrats Sachin! #speaker #research #proteintech #ECR

Dr. Vijay-Kumar has been invited to speak at the University of South Dakota’s Center for Brain and Behavior Research Annual Symposium, on August 9th-10th, 2023. The event will have invited talks from distinguished investigators, presentations by faculty and students of the CBBRe.