SVM Selects Dr. Luo as Young Investigator Finalist
August 12, 2021
Lingfeng Luo, PhD has been named a finalist for the Society of Vascular Medicine's (SVM) Young Investigator Award. The top three abstracts submitted to SVM's annual conference are invited to make oral presentations. Dr. Luo will present "Efficient suppression of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and intimal hyperplasia by targeting phosphodiesterase 10A."
"The research I am going to present is my main thesis project about studying a potential novel therapeutic target (phosphodiesterase 10A/PDE10A) of occlusive vascular disease. We have proofs to support that based on animal models, a human organ bath model, cellular functional assays, and signal transduction pathways," said Dr. Luo.
Dr. Luo is a post-doctoral scholar in the Division of Vascular Surgery's Leeper Lab.
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