Attendees from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine pose for a group picture with 2008-2009 President-Elect David Braun and 2007-2008 AAMC Chair Dr. Robert Desnick, MD, PhD
Sen Shiraj is in the MD/PhD program at UT-Houston and has completed the first three years of medical school and three years in the laboratory of Dr. Heinrich Taegtmeyer in the Division of Cardiology. His project involves studying how metabolic signals regulate growth signaling pathways in the heart. Specifically, he has characterized how load-induced changes in glucose metabolism regulate mTOR activation and endoplasmic reticulum stress.