Katherine Gegoutchadze

February 10, 2026 Two of our undergraduates, Cormac Davis (Class of 2027) pictured to the left and Priya Tomerlin (Class of 2026) (image not taken),…

Jake presented his oral qualifying exam titled “Sex-dependent differences in cardiac resident macrophage inflammasome activation in viral myocarditis” and passed. He is now a PhD candidate! Congratulations!…

Congratulations to Ashley for her oral presentation at the 2025 Pharmacology Retreat! In the fall of her 2nd year as a PhD student, our Ashley Darakjian gave an oral presentation within her department’s (Pharmacology and Therapeutics) annual fall research retreat. It’s such an honor to present…

Congratulations to our MD/PhD student, Jake, on having his literature review regarding myocarditis in pediatrics versus adults published in Frontiers in Immunology! Article Title: A comparative review of myocarditis in pediatrics versus adults: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management Article Summary: Myocarditis is an inflammatory heart disease that…

Congratulations to our lab members who presented! Cormac Davis (Class of 2027) presenting his poster “Tracking Resident and Infiltrating Macrophage Populations in Coxsackievirus B3 Myocarditis Utilizing CX3CR1/GFP CCR2/RFP Dual Reporter…

Congratulations to our undergraduate lab member Lauren Parrow for graduating this Spring with a B.S. in Biology (Chemistry minor)! She walked the stage a Gator alumna and with magna cum laude honors after completing her Honors thesis titled “Sex and Age Differences in the Development of Myocarditis”.

APRIL 8, 2025 Nick Farahani (Class of 2026) presenting his poster “Effects of Stem-Cell Derived Therapy on Myocarditis in Translational Animal Model” at UF’s Spring 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium…

February 25, 2025 Our MD/PhD student, Jacob Ricci, presented his poster titled “A Comparison of Myocarditis in 4-week-old Versus 8-week-old Mice Infected with Coxsackievirus B3”. Our…