Our Co-Director Elena Aikawa delivered the 24th Annual Ramzi S. Cotran Lecture hosted by Harvard Medical School, BWH, and Boston Children's Hospital. This incredible event was attended by faculty and fellows across MGB, HMS, and BIDMC, including her former mentor Dr. Frederick Schoen.

We are proud to announce that our Co-Director, Elena Aikawa, will deliver the prestigious Annual Ramzi S. Cotran Memorial Lecture on Thursday, September 25, at 4:30 p.m. at the Folkman Auditorium, Boston Children’s Hospital (300 Longwood Ave). Hope to see you there!

Our Co-Director Elena Aikawa delivered a well-received Keynote Lecture at the 10th Heart Valve Biology and Tissue Engineering Meeting, hosted by Sir Magdi Yacoub, at the Royal Society in London!

Our Director Masanori Aikawa delivered a special seminar at University College London’s Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, organized by Professor Sergio Bertazzo! @ucl.ac.uk

Packed room tonight for Dr. Kathryn Rexrode’s keynote lecture at the @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social annual Women in Medicine and Science Symposium!

We’re proud to celebrate this year’s Women in Medicine and Science Symposium! Congratulations to the outstanding women who presented, and thank you to the organizers — especially our co-director Dr. Elena Aikawa, whose dedication to empowering women in medicine makes this event possible.

We report that apolipoproteins are ADP-ribosylated, and these modified forms accumulate in plaques. Congratulations to the Singh and M Aikawa labs, Drs Pestana and Delwarde, and coauthors for their hard work on reporting this new biology. @ahajournals.bsky.social www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

t.co/54F6tLJDTs Our Director of Proteomics, Dr. Sasha Singh, will discuss alongside Dr. Duc Duong their respective research in addressing challenges in large-scale plasma proteomics for biomarker discovery. Mark your calendars for Sept. 23rd at 11am EDT!

Our co-director Dr. Elena Aikawa delivered an amazing talk at the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting in Madrid, Spain. Inspiring as always!

CICS proteomics collaboration publication alert: Combined dietary omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids protect against hyperglycemia-associated retinopathy in neonatal mice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Director of Proteomics Research Dr. Sasha Singh gave a wonderful and inspiring talk at last week's Festival of Genomics Boston about her innovative work using omics technologies in cardiovascular research. #FoGBoston #genomics #biodata

We haven’t given up on Sortilin as therapeutic target for vascular and valvular calcification www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... congratulations to Adrien and Elena! @ahajournals.bsky.social

We are excited to share that our Director of Proteomics Research, Dr. Sasha Singh, will be speaking at #FOGBoston at the end of this month! Registration is free for over 90% of attendees, so don't miss out! Reserve your spot at hubs.la/Q03cHRdb0. #genomics #biodata

Masanori Aikawa, CICS Founding Director, delivered a lecture at the 2025 Translational Panel during the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference of the Society for Vascular Surgery in Baltimore, held in conjunction with @ahascience.bsky.social Vascular Discovery 2025.

Co-Director of CICS and world leader in the field of cardiovascular calcification Prof. Elena Aikawa is awarded the Outstanding Mentorship of Women Award from the ATVB Women's Leadership Council of @ahascience.bsky.social. Thank you for being a driving force behind progress for women in science!

Job posting alert: CICS has an open postdoc position in Masanori Aikawa's group! Please visit our website – link in bio – for more info.

I'm thrilled to have joined this year's Heart Valve Society meeting in Cairo. I shared the latest findings from my EU #MACROVALVE project. To top it off, Dr Cassandra Clift and I won best oral presentations in the ICTEHV and basic valve biology and engineering sessions! #HVS2025

#HVS2025 was a success! Fellows from Dr. Elena Aikawa's group, @rachelcahalane.bsky.social and Cassandra Clift – also members on the board of the Young Professionals Network – , earned both an abstract competition as well as Best Oral Presentation! Congratulations to you both!

Recently launched young investigator board of the Heart Valve Society, an initiative that not only provides a platform for networking and collaboration but also offers resources for career advancement and interdisciplinary engagement. doi.org/10.1177/3049...

The Young Professionals Network Board representing at Heart Valve Society 2025 #HVS2025

Thanks to all of my colleagues @cicsnews.bsky.social and abroad for all of the stellar science and collaborations! Let’s keep making ideas fly (into the mass spectrometer..)!!!

CICS Director of Proteomics Research Sasha A. Singh, MSc, PhD is now Sasha A. Singh, MSc, PhD, FAHA!! Congratulations Sasha for this honor recognizing all of your incredible contributions to cardiovascular research! Thank you @ahascience.bsky.social!

Today we attended the Barry L. Karger Medal in Analytical Chemistry Symposium at Northeastern Univ. Bernard Kuster was the recipient of this year’s award, but basic and translational research is the ultimate winner with all this innovation.

Cassandra Clift, postdoc in Elena Aikawa's lab, presents her poster full of exciting research on proteomics as it applies to cardiovascular biomaterials at #USHUPO2025

This morning our co-Director and global leader in the field of cardiovascular calcification, Dr. Elena Aikawa, enlightened #USHUPO2025 attendees at the new Biofluids, Secretomes, and Extracellular Vesicles session created by @toleafgirl.bsky.social .

Dr. Taku Kasai of @toleafgirl.bsky.social ‘s Proteomics group shares new in-source CID HCD fragmentation technologies for ADPr in human primary macrophages with fellow proteomics enthusiasts at @us-hupo.bsky.social #USHUPO2025

Thank you @us-hupo.bsky.social for a great day of amazing science! But wait — there’s more: CICS has three exciting sessions tomorrow! Mark your calendars and see you there! #USHUPO2025

We're so excited to share our science at #USHUPO2025! Tomorrow, @markcblaser.bsky.social and Taku Kasai will represent CICS at the Pre-clinical Proteomics and Lightning Talk 1/Poster session 1 events!

Congratulations to Casey and Taku for their #USHUPO2025 travel awards!! @cicsnews.bsky.social

CICS wears red on Go Red for Women Day, a nationwide @americanheart.bsky.social campaign to raise awareness about heart health, encourage heart disease prevention, and support research. Today, we celebrate our women scientists driving forward this important field! #AHA #cardiosky #goredforwomen

CICS Publication Alert! #pharmacogenomics #proteomics and #cheminformatics. Congratulations to A. Halu and the CICS/BWH network medicine team! genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Job posting alert: CICS has an open postdoc position in the Proteomics Group led by the amazing and brilliant Dr. Sasha Singh! Please visit our website -- link in bio -- for more info.

Congratulations Taku! So well deserved.

Such an honor to be recognized by my peers!!!

The Inaugural William Terry Unsung Hero award goes to Taku Kasai, a member of @toleafgirl.bsky.social Proteomics group. This award holds a special place in our hearts as it honors late CICS director Dr. Bill Terry, for whom no task was too small. Thank you Taku for your invaluable contributions!

Yuto Nakamura takes home CICS Innovation Award first prize for his amazing work with CRISPR in 2024. Congratulations Yuto!

@sarveshchelvanambi.bsky.social work earns him CICS’s annual Innovation Award second place! Thank you for your innovative contributions during 2024.