Dr. Na Li received a DeBakey Research Excellence Award.
05/03/2025
Award
Dr. Yue Yuan won 3rd place for abstract presentation at the 38th SCBA-Texas Symposium! Congratulations!
02/10/2025
Publication
Postdoc Dr. Yue Yuan's first-author paper was published online in the European Heart Journal (IF: 39). A milestone work! Read more →
2024
07/30/2024
Lab Update
Graduate student Yuying Zeng has successfully passed the qualifying exam and entered PhD candidacy. Bravo!
03/18/2024
Award
Dr. Yue Yuan won 1st prize in the poster competition at the 2nd Annual Nancy Chang, PhD Research Symposium at BCM.
2023
12/25/2023
Award
Dr. Tingting Li received a postdoc fellowship award from the American Heart Association (2024–2025).
11/19/2023
Award
PREP scholar William Whitfield won a poster award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Phoenix, AZ. Congratulations, Will! 🎉
10/20/2023
Event
Dr. Na Li was invited as a visiting professor to the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, giving a lecture to the WIAS graduate program and guiding local PhD students in intracardiac electrical stimulation studies.
08/02/2023
Award
Dr. Na Li was inducted into the Fellowship of the American Heart Association (FAHA) during the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions 2023 in Boston.
07/31/2023
Event
Dr. Na Li gave a featured presentation titled "Molecular Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation: New Kid on the Block" at the 5th Asian Cardiovascular Symposium (pre-meeting of BCVS-2023) in Boston.
07/25/2023
Award
Dr. Tingting Li received the Heart Rhythm Society Research Fellowship to investigate the molecular mechanisms of CCD.
07/17/2023
Event
Dr. Li attended the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology in Glasgow, UK, organizing and chairing a session titled "Emerging role of NLRP3 inflammasome as a therapeutic target in cardiovascular and infectious diseases."
06/23/2023
Publication
Xiaolei, Jia, and Yue's paper “Downregulation of FKBP5 Promotes Atrial Arrhythmogenesis” was published in Circulation Research, highlighted by an accompanying editorial in the same journal. Read more →
03/21/2023
Award
Dr. Na Li received the BCM 2023 Women of Excellence Award.
03/02/2023
Award
Postdoc Dr. Jia Song received a poster award at the 2023 Gordon Research Conference – Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms.
2022
12/08/2022
Award
Postdoc Dr. Yue Yuan received a postdoc fellowship award from the American Heart Association (2023–2024).
07/01/2022
Award
Dr. Li received the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award.
04/29/2022
Event
Dr. Jia Song presented two posters at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in San Francisco, CA. Congratulations! 🎉
2021
06/01/2021
Lab Update
Dr. Li is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
2020
12/16/2020
Lab Update
Student Larry Scott Jr. successfully defended his thesis virtually. Way to go, Dr. Scott! 🎉
09/24/2020
Award
Li Lab received the FY21 Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) pilot award to study the mechanisms of cardiac conduction disorders.
09/16/2020
Event
Dr. Na Li participated in an NHLBI Atrial Fibrillation Working Group on Molecular Pathophysiology and Genetic Mechanisms as a speaker and panel discussant.
07/01/2020
Award
Li Lab (BCM) and McConnel Lab (UH) jointly received the BCM/UH Collaborative Pilot Grant to study cardiac repair with reprogrammed cardiac conduction cells.
05/20/2020
Award
Dr. Na Li received the Norton Rose Fulbright Teaching Award.
2019
07/23/2019
Lab Update
Summer students Arren Simpson (University of Detroit Mercy) and Vanessa Liu (Texas A&M) gave presentations on their summer projects to the BCM SMART Program. Congratulations!
04/10/2019
Award
Student Larry Scott Jr. won the best abstract award at the 6th CVRI Symposium. Congratulations!
2018
11/12/2018
Publication
Our work on "cardiac inflammasome and atrial fibrillation" was highlighted in Circulation.
08/01/2018
Event
Student Larry Scott Jr. gave an oral presentation at the BCVS Scientific Sessions in San Antonio, TX.
07/31/2018
Lab Update
Dr. Li was interviewed for the publication of our first study demonstrating the involvement of cardiac inflammasome in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation.
06/11/2018
Publication
Our work on "cardiac inflammasome and atrial fibrillation" was highlighted in Nature Reviews Cardiology.
2017
07/17/2017
Award
Student Larry Scott Jr. received a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association (2017–2019).