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Lab Personnel

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Stephanie Kelley

  • Sr Research Associate

stkelley@augusta.edu

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Dipankar Ash, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Project: Role of Copper Transport protein (ATP7A) and Mitochondrial proteins in Angiogenesis.

dash@augusta.edu

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Archita Das, PhD

  • Assistant Research Scientist
  • Project: Redox regulation of Cu transport proteins (CTR1 and Atox1) in wound healing, atherosclerosis, and angiogenesis.

ardas@augusta.edu

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Sudhahar Varadarajan, PhD

  • Assistant Professor
  • Project: Role of Cu transport proteins (ATP7A and Atox1) and extracellular SOD in atherosclerosis, aortic aneurysm, and diabetes with and without exercise.

svaradarajan@augusta.edu

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Md. Selim Hossain, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Funding:
  • AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2025-2026)

mdshossain@augusta.edu

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Sheela Nagarkoti, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Project: Redox Sensors mediating VEGFR2 signaling and angiogenesis

snagarkoti@augusta.edu

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Shikha Yadav, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Project: Role of myeloid Drp1 in ischemia-induced angiogenesis

syadav@augusta.edu

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Mai Yamamoto, PhD

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

mayamamoto@augusta.edu

 

 

Member Activities & Awards

2024

PPG NOA Grant Award 2024

 

 

 

Celebrating the PPG NOA grant award for the project “Endothelial Metabolism and Redox Imbalance in Vascular Disease”.

We are so proud of our team!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2023

American Heart Association Scientific Session held at Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-  November 11–13, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

American Heart Association Scientific Session held at Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-  November 11–13, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

2022


Kareem Abdelsaid                 Successfully defended on April 13, 2022 and awarded a Biomedical Sciences PhD in Vascular Biology with Distinction.                                                 

2021 


Kareem Abdelsaid                 Young Investigator Award by Society for Free Radical Biology Meeting (SfRBM), USA
Sheela Nagarkoti                   Trainee Award, by SfRBM, USA
Dipankar Ash                         Trainee Award, by SfRBM, USA

2019


Archita Das                           “Best poster award” by Redox signaling and cardiovascular diseases, AHA, USA
Kareem Abdelsaid                 Travel Award by Graduate School, Augusta University
Kareem Abdelsaid                 Excellence in Research award/Graduate Research Day by Graduate school, Augusta University

2018


Archita Das                            ATVB young investigator travel award, by AHA, USA.
Sudhahar Varadarajan        ATVB Young Investigator Travel Grant, American Heart Association, USA
Kareem Abdelsaid                Translational Research Award by Department of Medicine, Augusta University

2017


Dipankar Ash                        AHA postdoctoral fellowship Awarded trainee

2015


Sudhahar Varadarajan        AHA Scientist Development Grant Awarded trainee
Sudhahar Varadarajan        ATVB Early Career Investigator Award Finalists

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