•PhD Candidate | AHA Fellow @MDBCincy Makarewich Lab | Mol Cardio Bio ❤️🧬🧫🧪 | Cincinnati Children’s/University of Cincinnati •Auburn University at Montgomery
Cincinnati, OH
Joined January 2020
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Thank you @CatMak23 for the amazing mentorship that got me to where I am today! I truly appreciate it all! 🫡 😊👨🏻🎓
Congrats to #MakLab grad student Dr. Omar Brito-Estrada on earning his PhD and walking at the @UCincyMedicine winter grad ceremony🎓👏🏼 It has been an absolute privilege to mentor you🤩 Wishing you continued success as you begin your postdoc in the @McKinseyLab in Colorado🫀🧬
Omar Brito-Estrada retweeted
Brito-Estrada & colleagues found #DWORF #GeneTherapy enhances calcium handling & mitochondrial function in heart muscle, protecting the heart from structural remodeling & functional decline in #HF. Learn more at ahajrnls.org/46Xb6OV
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Thank you to the editors at @CircRes for choosing our DWORF image for the cover of the latest Circ Res Sep 26th issue! Beyond excited to have been chosen for this honor!!! 🔬🫀🙌🏽
@CatMak23
@CircRes Sept 26th Issue is Out! ahajrnls.org/3wPOBJJ
Cover: Immunofluorescence staining of heart sections from mice demonstrate the efficient cardiac delivery & expression of DWORF (green) which localizes to the SR in cardiomyocytes; cell membrane-pink, nuclei-blue.
Beyond excited to celebrate the outcome of years in the making! Huge thanks and shoutout to my incredible PhD mentor @CatMak23, couldn’t have done it without you!!! 🙌🏽 🫀💪🏽 And thank you to all my amazing co-authors! 🔥
🚨New paper out in Circ Res! Congrats to 1st author DR @OmarBritoStrada & the team👏🏼Here we show DWORF gene therapy boosts cardiac calcium handling, enhances mitochondrial energetics, & protects against heart failure progression🫀💪🏼
Read it here 😍👇🏼
doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.1…
Omar Brito-Estrada retweeted
Happy Holidays from the Mak Lab 🎄🎅🏻🫀🧬🔬 @keira_hassel @OmarBritoStrada @aarongibson55 @joseph_verry @Taylor_coughlin @cariswaddinglee Mike Kamradt & Lauren Carl (+ Emilia and Marlow👶🏻👶🏻💕)
Omar Brito-Estrada retweeted
A week late... 🫣 But wanted to highlight the trainees in the lab for their fantastic presentations last week at the CCHMC Heart Institute Retreat 🫀 Special congrats to @keira_hassel & @OmarBritoStrada for their award winning presentations 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Omar Brito-Estrada retweeted
We've extended the application deadline for our undergraduate summer research experience until tomorrow (3/15). Don't miss this chance to get invaluable research experience this summer! @LoyolaChicago @AHAScience @APSPhysiology @CURinAction @BiophysicalSoc #cardiac #research
Omar Brito-Estrada retweeted
Had a great time over the weekend learning how to curl with the lab🥌 Spoiler alert 🚨 It's harder than it looks! @OmarBritoStrada @keira_hassel @Taylor_coughlin @aarongibson55 &MikeKamradt
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Looking forward to another great year in the lab with these awesome scientists 🫀🔬🧬👏🏼 Let's Gooo! @aarongibson55 @OmarBritoStrada @keira_hassel @Taylor_coughlin &MikeKamradt
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Grateful for the opportunity to volunteer this week at the Ronald McDonald House w/ the #MakLab & @CincyKidsHeart❤️We worked together as a team to prepare & serve >250 meals for the families staying @RMHCincinnati for #TasteOfHope. I'm already looking forward to the next time!
Omar Brito-Estrada retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Happy to be there with two other @UCincyMedicine PhD students whom are fellow AHA pre-doc fellows! @OmarBritoStrada @zhiyun_yu @MDBCincy @uc_ccb
Ready for what 22nd Grade has is store for me at the #CatMakLab🫀💪🏽
Cat Mak Lab taking over #BCVS23!
A very successful week for the #MakLab at #BCVS23 🫀🧬 I am very proud of @keira_hassel, @Taylor_coughlin and Johanna Huelsman for their fantastic poster presentations and @OmarBritoStrada for delivering an exceptional talk that stirred a very active Q&A 👏🏼💪🏼 @MDBCincy @CincyMSTP
We got our Review out! 🥳 couldn’t have been done without @keira_hassel and our mentor @CatMak23!
We’re published!! 📚🧬👩🏼🔬So proud to share the product of lots of hard work from myself, @OmarBritoStrada and @CatMak23. Enjoy learning about Microproteins: Overlooked regulators of physiology and disease #MakLab cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
👏🏽 Honored to be training at the #1 pediatric institution in the US! 🔬👨🏻🔬
We’re honored to be named the #1 children’s hospital in the nation according to @usnews! This is another amazing first for Cincinnati Children’s and our region and we couldn’t have gotten here without you. #WeAreCincyKids
Omar Brito-Estrada retweeted
Time well spent this afternoon learning adult, child, and infant CPR with the lab 🫀💪🏼 Hopefully we never need to use this skill, but if we do, we are ready! Thanks to @CincyChildrens for providing this fantastic hands-on training opportunity 👏🏼
