2026 Malcolm Feist Cardiovascular,
Metabolic & Liver Diseases ​Research Program, & Center for Post-Translation Research Symposium​

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KEY SPEAKER

Nicholas E. S. Sibinga, MD​
Professor
Department of Medicine (Cardiology)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine​, Bronx, New York

“Cellular metabolism in vascular remodeling”​

Poster Awards

Evan Kidder
Neil Granger - Outstanding Pre-doctoral Trainee ($250)

Nilesh Pandey
Neil Granger - Outstanding Post-Doctoral Trainee ($250)

Sahith Reddy Thotamgari
Neil Granger - Outstanding Clinical Trainee ($250)

Anderson DeWitt
1st Clinical Trainee Poster ($150)

Claire White
2nd Clinical Trainee Poster ($100)

Colin Laird
3rd Clinical Trainee Poster ($50)

Cyrine Ben Dhaou
1st Postdoc Trainee Poster ($150)

Sumit Anand
2nd Postdoc Trainee Poster ($100)

Md Hasif Sinha
3rd Postdoc Trainee Poster ($50)

Koral Richard
1st Predoc Trainee Poster ($150)

Analilia Cardenas Garza
2nd Predoc Trainee Poster ($100)

Tasneem Abdulrahman
3rd Predoc Trainee Poster ($50)

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February 2, 2026 * LSU Health Shreveport ​

Location: Zadeck Conference Center​
Poster Session will be held in BRI Atrium

Hosted by Gopi Kolluru, PhD and Organized by Changwon Park, PhD; Matthew Scott, PhD; and Kalgi Modi, MD

8:15 - 8:45 a.m. BREAKFAST/COFFEE Poster set up in BRI Atrium​

8:50 - 9:00 a.m. WELCOME A. Wayne Orr, Ph.D., Director, Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences​

MALCOLM FEIST CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

9:00 – 9:20 a.m.
“Immune Checkpoint–Driven Cardiotoxicity: ​Mechanisms and Targeted Interventions” ​
Tousif Sultan, Ph.D.​, Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy​

​9:20 – 9:30 a.m.
“Dysregulations in Putrescine Metabolism Drive Hepatic Fibrosis in MASH”​
Dhananjay Kumar, Ph.D.​
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology​

9:30 – 9:40 a.m.
“Keeping the Heart Clean: Sigmar1-Driven Autophagy in Proteotoxic Cardiomyopathy”​
Richa Aishwarya, Ph.D.​
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology​

9:40 – 9:50 a.m.
“Macrophage Interactions with Fibronectin Drive TIM3-Mediated Efferocytosis”​
Rajan Pandit​
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology​

9:50 – 10:00 a.m.
“Hepatocyte SHMT2 Drives Atherosclerosis through One-Carbon ​ Metabolic regulation of VLDL and Ceramides”​
Koral Richard​
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology​

10:00 – 10:10 a.m.
“Opposing Roles of Age-Related Neuroimmune Response​ in Pediatric Ischemic Stroke”​
Bilkis Akhter​
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy​

10:10 – 10:25 a.m. COFFEE BREAK​

10:25 – 11:00 a.m. LIGHTNING ROUND​

11:00 – 12:00 p.m.
“Cellular metabolism in vascular remodeling”​
Nicholas Sibinga, MD​
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine​

12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch with CCDS Trainees​

1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Poster Session​

METABOLIC AND LIVER DISEASES RESEARCH PROGRAM

3:00 – 3:10 p.m.
“Pharmacologic Targeting of Oxalate Overproduction in Cardiometabolic Disease”​
Fabio Arias Bordajandi, Ph.D.​
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology​

3:10 – 3:40 p.m.
“Mitochondrial Hydrogen Sulfide Regulates Metabolic Function and ​Exercise Capacity in Obesity and Heart Failure”​
Tim Allerton, Ph.D.​
Assistant Professor, LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center​

3:40 – 4:40 p.m.
“Hepatic Lipid Homeostasis and the Assembly and Secretion of ​Very Low Density Lipoproteins: Studies in Cells, Mice, and Humans”​
Henry Ginsberg, MD​
Director Emeritus, Irving Institute for Clinical & Translational Research, Columbia​

4:40 – 5:00 p.m. Awards​