News

  • Congratulations to graduate student Dawson Striok received TPT CT32 award for another year from 2026-2027.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Yanghai Zhang’s first author paper published on Nucleic Acid Research in 2026
  • Welcome Dr. Yanghai Zhang on board as a postdoc to continue her PhD research project
  • Huge congratulations to the graduation of Ms. Yanghai Zhang, and she now becomes Dr. Yanghai Zhang.
  • Congratulations to undergraduate student Sam Rhody received High Impact Undergraduate Award (HIUA) 2026-2027
  • Congratulations to Dawson for receiving TPTC T32 award 2025-2026
  • Congratulations to the graduation of Zihan Zheng for receiving his MS degree
  • Congratulations to Zihan for successfully passing his MS defense and earning his MS degree!
  • Congratulations to Yanghai on the acceptance of her co-first author paper in the top-tier journal Circulation Research!
  • Congrats to Sanya Desai who received the Cargill/Benevenga Undergraduate Research Stipend in 2025
  • Our project was selected for WARF/Route 66 Ventures Cardiology Challenge Grant: https://www.warf.org/news/three-projects-selected-for-warf-route-66-ventures-cardiology-challenge-grant/
  • Dr. Guo received the Fall Research Competition Award from July 2025 to June 2026
  • Welcome Giulia Sautariello to the lab!
    Giulia will be joining us as a visiting student from February to May 2025. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Florence, Italy.
  • Congratulations to Yaqin for successfully passing her MS defense and earning her MS degree!
  • Dr. Wei Guo was elected as a Chair of the Financial Committee (Treasurer) for a Non-profit organization Academy of Cardiovascular Research Excellence (ACRE) from January 2025 to January 2027
  • Congrats to Yanghai who received the AHA pre-doctoral Fellowship award from January 2025 to December 2026
  • Dr. Guo has received a three-year gift fund (2024–2027) from Chris Salm, the former President & CEO of Salm Partners to support research on animal biologics. We sincerely appreciate this generous support!
  • Congrats to Yanghai who received Poster Award at 2024 AHA pre-conference, Chicago, IL, November 15, 2024
  • Welcome Dr. Liubin Yang to join the lab as a visiting scientist (postdoc) in November 2024
  • Welcome Ms. Chunling Liu to join the lab as a Research Intern in November 2024
  • Dr. Wei Guo received Faculty Travel Award for RBM20-DCM meeting, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, November 4-5, 2024
  • Congrats to Dawson Stroik received the TPTCS NIH T32 adjacent Travel award, Cardiovascular Research Center, Madison, WI. October 2024
  • Dr. Wei Guo was nominated as a Featured Speaker for Excellence at the 43rd ISHR-NAR Meeting pre-conference, Long Beach, CA. August 20-23, 2024.
  • Congrats to Yanghai who received Oral presentation award at 43rd International Society Heart Research pre-conference, Long Beach, CA, August 20-23, 2024
  • Congrats to Dr. Zachery Gregorich who was promoted to Scientist II position. His new appointment starts in July 2024
  • Congrats to Yanghai who received 3rd prize at Graduate student infographic poster competition, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Madison, WI. April 18th, 2024
  • Welcome new graduate students Dawson Stroik from CMP graduate program and, Zihan Zheng and Yaqin He from Animal Science graduate program starting in Fall 2023
  • Dr. Guo co-organized the 1st CAAC Retreat Meeting in Vascular Biology taken place in MSABD Building at University of Wisconsins-Madison from August 11th to 14th 2023
  • Congrats to Yanghai whose abstract was selected for ECI symposium oral presentation at the 42nd ISHR-NAS meeting, Madison, WI, June 27-30, 2023.
  • Dr. Guo co-organized the 1st ACRE-ISHR pre-conference in Cardiovascular Research taken place in MSABD Building at University of Wisconsins-Madison on June 26th 2023
  • Our work published on JCI Insights received the highlight in the Editor’s Picks in August 2023. Congrats to all authors!
  • Our manuscript entitled “Disruption of the nuclear localization signal in RBM20 is causative in dilated cardiomyopathy” was accepted by the journal JCI Insight. Congrats to co-first authors Yanghai and Zach!——May 16th 2023
  • Welcome Dr. Huifeng Li, a visiting scientist from Shanxi Agricultural University, China to work in the lab from May 15th to December 15th 2023.——May 15th, 2023
  • Congratulations to Yanghai and Zach whose abstracts were selected as oral presentation respectively in 1st ACRE-ISHR pre-conference occurring on June 25th, 2023.—-May 2nd, 2023
  • Congrats to Dawson Stroik accepted by CMP graduate program at UW–Madison.—–May 1st, 2023
  • Congrats to Peiheng Liu who was admitted by graduate program at Medical School of University of Washington-St. Louis—-April 27th, 2023
  • Welcome a visiting scholar, Julie Axelsen from Aarhus University Hospital, Danmark to work in the from March 15th to September 15th, 2023——–March 15th, 2023
  • Welcome Yaqin He, a new research intern to the lab on February 15th 2023
  • Dr. Guo was invited as a speaker at 42nd International Society for Heart Research (ISHR)-North America Section (NAS) conference occurring from June 27 to 30, 2023 in Madison, WI.——November 30th, 2022
  • Dr. Guo, as a Chair, organized the 2022 Multi-State meeting in MSABD building in Madison from September 28th to September 30th 2022——September 27th, 2022.
  • Dr. Guo was invited to give a seminar to the ACRE group entitled “A new paradigm for heat failure-RBM20 granules disease”——–March 22nd, 2023 (https://my-acre.org/news/22001-2/)
  • Dr. Guo was invited to give a presentation at Pfizer Inc. entitled “RBM20 cardiomyopathy, a granules disease in the heart”———-April 4th, 2023
  • Dr. Guo was invited to give a seminar at Rgenta Therapeutics Inc. entitled “Targeting RBM20/titin for the treatment of HFpEF”——July 7th, 2022
  • Dr. Guo was invited to give a presentation at Shangdong Agricultural University, Jinan, China entitled “Multidimensional gene regulation in skeletal muscle growth and development”——May 17th, 2022