All About Science, Scientists & Their Research
- A Novel Co-Targeting Strategy of EGFR/SEC61G for Multi-Modality Fluorescence/MR/Photoacoustic Imaging of Glioblastoma
- In Vivo Imaging of AntiI-αFR Car-Engineered NK-92 Cells Displaying Potent Cytotoxicity Against αFR-Positive Ovarian Cancer
- Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine 2019
- In vivo grafting of large, engineered heart tissue patches for cardiac repair
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil Phenols Vasodilate Rat Mesenteric Resistance Artery via Phospholipase C (PLC)-Calcium Microdomains-Potassium Channels (BKCa) Signals
- Lifelong SIRT-1 Overexpression Attenuates Large Artery Stiffening With Advancing Age
- Heterogeneity and dynamics of active Kras-induced dysplastic lineages from mouse corpus stomach
- Development of [¹⁸F]FPy-WL12 as a PD-L1 Specific PET Imaging Peptide
- New Year, New HypoxyLab: Big Changes Coming to the System in 2021
- Pressure Arteriography or Wire Myography? How to choose for your model.
- Transverse Aortic Constriction (TAC): Why, how and the outcome as it relates to pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy and/or heart failure
- Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry How Does it Work?
- The New Benchmark: How Vilber optics are revolutionizing gel and blot imaging for researchers
- Live cell imaging is making research easier and adding efficiency to labs under COVID-19 restrictions
- Tumor-Associated Macrophages Enhance Tumor Hypoxia and Aerobic Glycolysis
- SimPET: A Preclinical PET Insert for Simultaneous PET/MR Imaging
- New Journal Article – Cell Proliferation Detected Using [18F]FLT PET/CT as an Early Marker of Abdominal Aortic Aaneurysm
- Intermittent Hypoxia (OSA) and sustained hypoxia can prompt inter-tissue circadian clock misalignment
- New Journal Article – Circadian clock network desynchrony promotes weight gain and alters glucose homeostasis in mice
- Applying Imaging to Study Infectious Diseases
October 2021
Get To Know Dr. Kristine DeLeon-Pennell


Dr. DeLeon-Pennell was trained in cardiovascular sciences at Baylor University, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She has >10 years’ experience with all aspects of the inflammatory and fibrotic components of cardiac remodeling following myocardial infarction (MI). In particular, she has extensive training in matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) biology, extracellular matrix remodeling, and cardiac aging research.



October 2021
Get To Know Dr. Bruce Arthur Young , PhD
Dr. Young’s current research area is the neurobiology and biophysics of sensory systems, and particularly audition, in reptiles. Audition in this group is remarkably diverse, including: pressure-coupled tympani in some taxa; tympanic and non-tympanic ears; elaborate stapedial dampening systems; separate low-frequency and high-frequency auditory pathways; as well as integration with pressure and/or vibration detection systems. A second area of research is the neurobiology of venom secretion, storage, and activation.

Bruce Arthur Young , PhD


November 2021
Get to Know Dr. Anand Narayanan

Anand Narayanan , PhD
Dr. Anand Narayanan has an interdisciplinary background in engineering, biology, and physiology, with specialized training in cardiovascular sciences, in lymphatics while at Texas A&M University and in heart and blood vascular adaptations now at Florida State University, having also studied cardiovascular-coupled organ system adaptations including cerebral, musculoskeletal, and gastrointestinal physiology. He has more than 10 years of physiology and immunology experience, in various research areas including auto-immune conditions, old age, exercise training, etc. His current research focuses on the interaction between the immune system and how it affects cardiovascular physiology.


February 2022
Get to Know Dr. Erik Blackwood
Dr. Erik Blackwood is currently a researcher at the University of Arizona, in the College of Medicine. Erik earned his PhD under Dr. Chris Glembotski at the San Diego State University Heart Institute, after completing his bachelor’s degree at the University of Notre Dame.
Throughout his career, Erik’s research has focused on unlocking the therapeutic potential of various targets on pathological cardiovascular remodeling. In his current role, at the Translational Cardiovascular Research Center, Erik works closely with other scientists and physicians with an eye on discovering novel therapies for cardiovascular disease and rapidly moving them into the clinic to provide improved patient outcomes.
Erik has worked to equip the lab at the University of Arizona with innovative tools to help the team achieve their research goals. Some of this equipment, supplied by Scintica, includes simultaneous PET/MR imaging; a suite of surgical stations including surgical monitoring, anesthesia, and ventilators, as well as surgical microscopes; and finally systems to measure blood flow velocity.

Erik Alexander Blackwood, PhD
Dive Deeper Under The Microscope Here
- A Novel Co-Targeting Strategy of EGFR/SEC61G for Multi-Modality Fluorescence/MR/Photoacoustic Imaging of Glioblastoma
- In Vivo Imaging of AntiI-αFR Car-Engineered NK-92 Cells Displaying Potent Cytotoxicity Against αFR-Positive Ovarian Cancer
- Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine 2019
- In vivo grafting of large, engineered heart tissue patches for cardiac repair
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil Phenols Vasodilate Rat Mesenteric Resistance Artery via Phospholipase C (PLC)-Calcium Microdomains-Potassium Channels (BKCa) Signals
- Lifelong SIRT-1 Overexpression Attenuates Large Artery Stiffening With Advancing Age
- Heterogeneity and dynamics of active Kras-induced dysplastic lineages from mouse corpus stomach
- Development of [¹⁸F]FPy-WL12 as a PD-L1 Specific PET Imaging Peptide
- New Year, New HypoxyLab: Big Changes Coming to the System in 2021
- Pressure Arteriography or Wire Myography? How to choose for your model.
- Transverse Aortic Constriction (TAC): Why, how and the outcome as it relates to pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy and/or heart failure
- Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry How Does it Work?
- The New Benchmark: How Vilber optics are revolutionizing gel and blot imaging for researchers
- Live cell imaging is making research easier and adding efficiency to labs under COVID-19 restrictions
- Tumor-Associated Macrophages Enhance Tumor Hypoxia and Aerobic Glycolysis
- SimPET: A Preclinical PET Insert for Simultaneous PET/MR Imaging
- New Journal Article – Cell Proliferation Detected Using [18F]FLT PET/CT as an Early Marker of Abdominal Aortic Aaneurysm
- Intermittent Hypoxia (OSA) and sustained hypoxia can prompt inter-tissue circadian clock misalignment
- New Journal Article – Circadian clock network desynchrony promotes weight gain and alters glucose homeostasis in mice
- Applying Imaging to Study Infectious Diseases