News & Events: microRNA-Controlled Inflammation

The NIH has awarded Robert Raffai, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Director of the Atherosclerosis Research Lab, a 4-year R01 grant to study Hyperglycemia and MicroRNA Dysregulation of Inflammation in Atherosclerosis. Dr. Raffai has described the purpose of the research as follows: This project will test our hypothesis that hyperglycemia accelerates atherosclerosis in diabetic mice by dysregulating microRNA processing in immune cells as a consequence of increased cellular oxidative stress. It will also test whether this effect [...]