
Exploring the genetic foundations of vascular disease, cell fate in muscle cells, and nuclear actin dynamics- one cell at a time. @uthealthhouston @mda_uthgrad
Texas Medical Center, Houston
Joined May 2023
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Congratulations on getting white coated Emi!! Ft. Kiara’s White Coat Ceremony, full circle moment 🥹🥼
Congratulations to our PhD student Emi Esparza for winning 1st place at the GSRD oral presentation competition🥇!!
Lab lunch to celebrate our summer students! Hu’s Cooking? More like Hu’s Crying? 😢 gonna miss you guys!
Proud of our presenters today!! Emi and Yan gave oral presentations and Kiara presented a poster at GSBS’s 2026 Graduate Student Research Day 🔬🧫
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Happy to share our latest work linking smooth muscle cell stress-induced phenotypic modulation to atherosclerosis associated with immune checkpoint therapy in cancer! @DiannaMilewicz @KwartlerLab frontiersin.org/journals/car…
Proud of our Kwartler lab members for their incredible 60 second flash talks and standout poster presentations. And proud of our PI, Dr. Callie Kwartler, and technician Angie Gonzalez for their excellent oral presentations at GCVR 2026 🧬🩵
Congratulations to our lab members Kiara, Angie, and Aminat on earning second place in the predoctoral poster category at this year’s Gulf Coast Vascular Research Consortium, hosted by LSU Shreveport! 🥈💟
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Congrats to alumna Callie Kwartler, PhD, Molecular and Translational Biology professor, on receiving the North American Vascular Biology Organization's 2025 Springer Junior Investigator Award! 🎉 She presented her award lecture at their annual Vascular Biology meeting this week.
So proud to see Dr. Callie Kwartler recognized with the 2025 Springer Junior Investigator Award from NAVBO 🏆 Her work on the epigenetic link between metabolism and smooth muscle cell differentiation continues to push the field forward. #NAVBO #VascularBiology 🧬
Happy #PostdocAppreciationWeek! 🥳
Shout-out to our dream team: Dr. Alexis Richard & Dr. Shuvra Roy (pictured) + Dr. Jeison Garcia & Dr. Pujun Guan (not pictured but just as awesome).
Thanks for all the wisdom, hustle & laughs, you keep the science running! 🔬💪
We built a whole website just so you can stalk our science. 🔬👀 👉 thekwartlerlab.com/
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Congratulations to our former research tech turned first year PhD student Emiliano! Happy orientation week 😊🐀
We’re honored to be named NAVBO’s Lab of the Month for August!
We promise to use our powers for good… and more science. 🔬❤️ navbo.org/members-labs/




























