Current Researchers in the TCV Lab:
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Damien LaPar, MD Surgery Resident University of Virginia Damien is funded by our NIH T32 Training Grant. He is working in Victor Laubach's lab using the clinically relevant pig lung transplantat model to study the protective role of adenosine A2A receptor activation in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury.
Phone: 434-982-3711 |
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Casti Bhamidipati, DO Casti is funded by our NIH T32 Training Grant. He is working in Gorav Ailawadi's lab studying mechanisms of aortic aneurysm formation using a mouse model.
Phone: 434-924-5836 |
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Abbas Emaminia, MD Abbas is working in Chris Lau's lab studying mouse models of bronchiolitis obliterans as well as lung ischemia-reperfusion injury and mouse heterotopic heart transplantation.
Phone: 434-924-5836 |
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Sara Hennessy, MD Surgery Resident University of Virginia Sara is funded by our NIH T32 Training Grant. She is working in Irving Kron's lab using a rat model of cardiopulmonary bypass to study the effects of bypass surgery on lung injury.
Phone: 434-982-3711 |
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Farshad Anvari, MD Farshad is funded by our NIH T32 Training Grant. He is working in Victor Laubach's lab studying roles of adenosine A2B receptor in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury and in various pulmonary cells such as alveolar epithelia, endothelia, macrophages, and T cells.
Phone: 434-982-3711 |
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Ashish Sharma, MBBS Instructor MR Medical College, Gulbarg, Karnataka, India Ashish is working in Victor Laubach's lab studying the role of CD4+ T cells, IL-17, and NADPH oxidase in pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury utilizing cell culture and mouse lung model.
Phone: 434-982-3711 |
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Lucas Fernandez, MD, DSc Instructor University of Zulia School of Medicine, Maracaibo, Venezuela Lucas is working in Victor laubach's lab studying molecular mechanisms of compensatory lung growth as well as protective mechanisms of adenosine receptors in lung ischemia-reperfusion injury.
Phone: 434-982-3711 |



