Danica publishes paper on TWIST1 in regulating SMC phenotypes

Dr. Danica Dy, who recently defended her PhD in Dr. Rob Wirka's lab, published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine on the funcitonal role of TWIST1 in arterial smooth muscle. TWIST1 has been identified as a causal gene that increases risk for several vascular diseases, yet the molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Dr. Rathod from the Polacheck Lab helped to develop functional assays for smooth muscle cell migration that helped elucidate how TWIST1 modulates cellular phenotypes. The paper can be found here.