The 2026 Million Dollar Bike Ride takes place Saturday, June 13th. Check the MDBR site for more information and to sign up.
Emily Scarborough’s work, “Microtubule dynamics control the direction of cardiomyocyte growth,” was published in Science! Unexpectedly, this work uncovered how the heart uses microtubule stability as an upstream effector to enact two unique mechanisms to grow in either width or length.
Keita Uchida’s paper “mTORC1 and nuclear ERK spatially control translation in cardiomyocytes through 4EBP1 phosphorylation” has been published in Science Signaling…and was selected for the cover art!
Alex Felix has won CURE Epilepsy’s Taking Flight Award to advance his work on “Fine-tuning the 3’UTR as a novel therapeutic strategy for genetic Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies.”
September 2025: Katey Stone was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31 grant) from the National Heart,
Daria is now an assistant professor with her own lab at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, plus she’s first author on a paper that comes out of work begun in Ben’s lab: “
Yohei Yamauchi joined us as a visiting scholar from Japan. Read more about Yohei and our other lab members on our Team page.
Keita Uchida was awarded an American Heart Association grant to support his work on “Spatial Control Of Anabolism And Catabolism By Mtorc1 In The Heart.”
In this piece in Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, “Accelerating therapeutic development and clinical trial readiness for STXBP1 and SYNGAP1 disorders,”
Jennifer Petrosino was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32 grant) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to pursue her research on “Microtubule-Mediated Trna Localization In Cardiac Homeostasis And Hypertrophy.”
On January 1st 2021 we officially kicked off the Leducq Cytoskeletal Network (LCN). This Trans-Atlantic Network of Excellence brings together 7 different labs from the U.S.
