Weijia Luo
Assistant Professor
Academic Appointment(s)
Medical College of Georgia
Department of Physiology
Administration
Department of The Graduate School
- WLUO@augusta.edu
- (706) 721-3580
- CA 4141
Education
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Ph.D., Biological and Biomedical Scie
Texas A&M University, 2012
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BS, Biotechnology
Sun Yat-sen University, 2003
Awards & Honors
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Early Career Poster Competition Winner
American Heart Association, BCVS, 2022
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Junior Faculty Award, First Place
AHA BCVS Meeting, Asian Cardiovascular Symposium, 2022
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TAMU Alkek Early Career Investigator Award
Texas A&M University Health Science Center, 2022
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Young Investigator Award, First Place
AHA BCVS Meeting, Asian Cardiovascular Symposium, 2019
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DoD Predoctoral Fellowship Award
DEPARTMENT OF WAR - CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS, 2009
Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year
Scholarship
Selected Recent Publications
- Immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis: a historical and comprehensive review, 2025
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS RELATED TO RNA-TARGETED RHO SMALL GTPase RND3/RhoE THERAPY, 2025
Other
- Abstract Tu004: Global distribution of cardiac exosomes after myocardial infarction, 2024
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Modeling immune checkpoint inhibitor associated myocarditis in vitro and its therapeutic implications, 2024
Journal Article, Academic Journal
- SETD2 as an epigenetic sentinel of transcriptional fidelity in cardiomyocytes: a mechanistic link to heart failure, 2024
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Research Interests
My lab employs in vivo and in vitro disease models, combined with multi-omics sequencing techniques and data mining approaches, to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cardiac pathogenesis induced by conditions such as myocardial infarction (MI), diabetes, aging, and psychological stress."
