Mar 4, 2025 – Dr. Chella Krishnan will receive the Young Investigator Award from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.

Mar 4, 2025 – Ms. Akhigbe, a PhD student in the Gao lab, will receive a research Grant-in-Aid from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.

Mar 2025 – Dr. Chella Krishnan was awarded an Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant – New to the Field to explore the connections among obesity, sex differences, and mitochondrial function in Alzheimer’s disease.

Mar 5, 2025 – In the student-organized seminar series, James Frazier (Chella Krishnan lab) described “Sex-specific attenuation of cardiometabolic HFpEF via adipose NDUFV2 overexpression”.

Mar 12, 2025 – Distinguished Lecturer Aristotelis Tsirigos, PhD (New York University School of Medicine) presented his work on "The landscape of tumor heterogeneity through the lens of single-cell technologies and AI".

Mar 2025 – Dr. Chella Krishnan's UC Cardiovascular Research Institute proposal "NDUFV2-mediated adipose-to-heart crosstalk" has been approved for funding.

Mar 2025 – A group including Dr. Perez-Tilve reports that A GLP-1 analogue optimized for cAMP-biased signaling improves weight loss in obese mice.

Mar 2025 – A group including Dr. Perez-Tilve reports that A once-daily GLP-1/GIP/glucagon receptor tri-agonist (NN1706) lowers body weight in rodents, monkeys and humans.