Katrina Leung (Besler)

MD/PhD student in beautiful BC @HLIStPauls
Smooth muscle cells in #atherosclerosis
#cholesterol #CVD

[AHA Science @AHAScience]

Congratulations to the Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award winners announced during #VascularDiscovery24! This award recognizes the team with the highest-ranked scientific abstract from every participating country!

[HLI at St Paul's @HLIStPauls]

Meet Sylvia, the grandmother of Katrina Besler, a MD/PhD candidate in Dr. Gordon Francis’ lab, who visited the @HLI_BMCB to view human hearts archived for research purposes.

[Shayan Mohammadmoradi, MS, PhD @MoradiShayan]

Always thankful to @ATVBEarlyCareer @ATVBCouncil for the perfect networking events.

#AHA22

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

#NAFLD #atherosclerosis

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

Learnings from a rare disease with implications for some of the most common diseases...
https://t.co/14x6zNxN3B

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

But what about more common cases of low LAL? Does low LAL contribute to cardiovascular disease, the leading global cause of death, or NAFLD, the most common liver disease? Read for more https://t.co/ITRKUpOf8T

[Mikayla Borthwick Bowen @MikaylaMDPhD]

MD/PhD trainees finishing 4 years of undergrad, 8 years of med/grad school, 3-7 years of residency, and 0-4 years of fellowship to finally start their career.

[Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack32]

For #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, I can give you 15 ("very expert", or common sense) suicidologist tips for preventing suicide:

1) Dedicate some of your time to making things better for people around you.

2) Use some of what you have to improve things for those with less.

[Joy Wu, MD, PhD @JoyYWu]

With our publication in @NatureMedicine on pandemic-related barriers to the success of women in research, I’d like to shine a spotlight on gender equity for women physician-scientists, who face cumulative barriers imposed in medicine AND science https://t.co/7TlbyIsHAp 1/n

[ATVB: An AHA Journal @atvbahajournals]

UBC Researchers connect low lysosomal acid lipase expression by smooth muscle cells to foam cell formation in atherosclerosis
@Gordon23Francis
@KatrinaBesler
@collinpryma
@MSeidmanMD
@HLIStPauls
@PHCResearch
@UBCDoM
@helpstpauls
@CarleenaOrtega
https://t.co/g19FmNT62i

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

Great talks this morning @the_asci @A_P_S_A #JointMeeting21! Take home points: Zoom closed captioning says the cytosol is a side hustle😂

[Circulation Research @CircRes]

@CircRes Review Alert! Generation of #VascularSmoothMuscleCells from #InducedPluripotentStemCells: Methods, Applications, and Considerations Learn more at https://t.co/tKPXdAfVjr

@twinsmc18 @Joseph_C_Wu

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

@elyn_rowe Congratulations!!!! 😊

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

Aaaand it's published!! https://t.co/DIpYDZ4IOb

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

Atherosclerosis: the disease process behind most heart disease and strokes, the #⃣1⃣cause of death in the world🌎, and the reason your uncle keeps talking about his cholesterol.

Click to learn about a potential key🗝️to unlocking cholesterol plaques…
#UBCSCW21 #atherosclerosis

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

To be published📃in ATVB in April🗓️: Low lysosomal acid lipase expression by smooth muscle cells... J Dubland et al.

More from the Francis lab at @HLIStPauls...
https://t.co/RpVTLjm8tp
https://t.co/B0bLUnDP6M
https://t.co/N1uXiCyoVA

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

@MH_Ryu Any interventions you are currently interested in/investigating?

[Katrina Leung (Besler) @KatrinaBesler]

@MH_Ryu Exactly!! Like the Pfizer + Moderna COVID vaccines, this approach uses the liver to express and circulate LAL to SMCs. Promising :)