News
Congratulations to Zihan for successfully passing his MS defense and earning his MS degree!
Congratulations to Yanghai on the acceptance of her co-first author paper in the top-tier journal Circulation Research!
Congrats to Sanya Desai who received the Cargill/Benevenga Undergraduate Research Stipend in 2025
Our project was selected for WARF/Route 66 Ventures Cardiology Challenge Grant: https://www.warf.org/news/three-projects-selected-for-warf-route-66-ventures-cardiology-challenge-grant/
Dr. Guo received the Fall Research Competition Award from July 2025 to June 2026
Welcome Giulia Sautariello to the lab!
Giulia will be joining us as a visiting student from February to May 2025. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Florence, Italy.
Congratulations to Yaqin for successfully passing her MS defense and earning her MS degree!
Dr. Wei Guo was elected as a Chair of the Financial Committee (Treasurer) for a Non-profit organization Academy of Cardiovascular Research Excellence (ACRE) from January 2025 to January 2027
Congrats to Yanghai who received the AHA pre-doctoral Fellowship award from January 2025 to December 2026
Dr. Guo has received a three-year gift fund (2024–2027) from Chris Salm, the former President & CEO of Salm Partners to support research on animal biologics. We sincerely appreciate this generous support!
Congrats to Yanghai who received Poster Award at 2024 AHA pre-conference, Chicago, IL, November 15, 2024
Welcome Dr. Liubin Yang to join the lab as a visiting scientist (postdoc) in November 2024
Welcome Ms. Chunling Liu to join the lab as a Research Intern in November 2024
Dr. Wei Guo received Faculty Travel Award for RBM20-DCM meeting, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, November 4-5, 2024
Congrats to Dawson Stroik received the TPTCS NIH T32 adjacent Travel award, Cardiovascular Research Center, Madison, WI. October 2024
Dr. Wei Guo was nominated as a Featured Speaker for Excellence at the 43rd ISHR-NAR Meeting pre-conference, Long Beach, CA. August 20-23, 2024.
Congrats to Yanghai who received Oral presentation award at 43rd International Society Heart Research pre-conference, Long Beach, CA, August 20-23, 2024
Congrats to Dr. Zachery Gregorich who was promoted to Scientist II position. His new appointment starts in July 2024
Congrats to Yanghai who received 3rd prize at Graduate student infographic poster competition, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Madison, WI. April 18th, 2024
Welcome new graduate students Dawson Stroik from CMP graduate program and, Zihan Zheng and Yaqin He from Animal Science graduate program starting in Fall 2023
Dr. Guo co-organized the 1st CAAC Retreat Meeting in Vascular Biology taken place in MSABD Building at University of Wisconsins-Madison from August 11th to 14th 2023
Congrats to Yanghai whose abstract was selected for ECI symposium oral presentation at the 42nd ISHR-NAS meeting, Madison, WI, June 27-30, 2023.
Dr. Guo co-organized the 1st ACRE-ISHR pre-conference in Cardiovascular Research taken place in MSABD Building at University of Wisconsins-Madison on June 26th 2023
Our work published on JCI Insights received the highlight in the Editor’s Picks in August 2023. Congrats to all authors!
Our manuscript entitled “Disruption of the nuclear localization signal in RBM20 is causative in dilated cardiomyopathy” was accepted by the journal JCI Insight. Congrats to co-first authors Yanghai and Zach!——May 16th 2023
Welcome Dr. Huifeng Li, a visiting scientist from Shanxi Agricultural University, China to work in the lab from May 15th to December 15th 2023.——May 15th, 2023
Congratulations to Yanghai and Zach whose abstracts were selected as oral presentation respectively in 1st ACRE-ISHR pre-conference occurring on June 25th, 2023.—-May 2nd, 2023
Congrats to Dawson Stroik accepted by CMP graduate program at UW-Madison.—–May 1st, 2023
Congrats to Peiheng Liu who was admitted by graduate program at Medical School of University of Washington-St. Louis—-April 27th, 2023
Welcome a visiting scholar, Julie Axelsen from Aarhus University Hospital, Danmark to work in the from March 15th to September 15th, 2023——–March 15th, 2023
Welcome Yaqin He, a new research intern to the lab on February 15th 2023
Dr. Guo was invited as a speaker at 42nd International Society for Heart Research (ISHR)-North America Section (NAS) conference occurring from June 27 to 30, 2023 in Madison, WI.——November 30th, 2022
Dr. Guo, as a Chair, organized the 2022 Multi-State meeting in MSABD building in Madison from September 28th to September 30th 2022——September 27th, 2022.
Dr. Guo was invited to give a seminar to the ACRE group entitled “A new paradigm for heat failure-RBM20 granules disease”——–March 22nd, 2023 (https://my-acre.org/news/22001-2/)
Dr. Guo was invited to give a presentation at Pfizer Inc. entitled “RBM20 cardiomyopathy, a granules disease in the heart”———-April 4th, 2023
Dr. Guo was invited to give a seminar at Rgenta Therapeutics Inc. entitled “Targeting RBM20/titin for the treatment of HFpEF”——July 7th, 2022
Dr. Guo was invited to give a presentation at Shangdong Agricultural University, Jinan, China entitled “Multidimensional gene regulation in skeletal muscle growth and development”——May 17th, 2022