Clift, Cassandra L.
Dr. Casey Clift obtained her Bachelor of Science in 2014 from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Biomedical Engineering, where she received the Provost Award in Biomedical Engineering. After working in academic research studying cardiac electrophysiology, Casey went on to obtain her PhD in 2021 in Biomedical Sciences from the Medical University of South Carolina in the Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. She was funded via the Ruth. L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) as well as a Training Fellowship in Cardiovascular Therapies (T32). Under the mentorship of Drs. Peggi Angel and Richard Drake, her PhD dissertation work was focused in the translational and post-translational regulation of extracellular matrix proteins in pediatric cases of Congenital Aortic Valve Stenosis. Casey focused in using multi-modal imaging modalities, such as MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry, coupled with histopathological evaluation and chromatographic proteomics.
Under the mentorship of Dr. Elena Aikawa at CICS, Casey will use multi-omics strategies and bioengineered models of calcific valve disease to understand the role of biomechanics, cell-cell, and cell-ECM interactions on valve epigenetics and proteomics.
Publications
Show
Cahalane RME, Turner ME, Clift CL, Blaser MC, Bogut G, Levy S, Kasai T, Driedonks TAP, Nolte-'t Hoen ENM, Aikawa M, Singh SA, Aikawa E
Polycarbonate Ultracentrifuge Tube Re-use in Proteomic Analyses of Extracellular Vesicles.
Clift CL, Blaser MC, Gerrits W, Turner ME, Sonawane A, Pham T, Andresen JL, Fenton OS, Grolman JM, Campedelli A, Buffolo F, Schoen FJ, Hjortnaes J, Muehlschlegel JD, Mooney DJ, Aikawa M, Singh SA, Langer R, Aikawa E
Intracellular proteomics and extracellular vesiculomics as a metric of disease recapitulation in 3D-bioprinted aortic valve arrays.
Raju S, Botts SR, Blaser MC, Abdul-Samad M, Prajapati K, Khosraviani N, Ho TWW, Breda LCD, Ching C, Galant NJ, Fiddes L, Wu R, Clift CL, Pham T, Lee WL, Singh SA, Aikawa E, Fish JE, Howe KL
Directional Endothelial Communication by Polarized Extracellular Vesicle Release.
Rogers MA, Bartoli-Leonard F, Zheng KH, Small AM, Chen HY, Clift CL, Asano T, Kuraoka S, Blaser MC, Perez KA, Natarajan P, Yeang C, Stroes ESG, Tsimikas S, Engert JC, Thanassoulis G, O'Donnell CJ, Aikawa M, Singh SA, Aikawa E
Major Facilitator Superfamily Domain Containing 5 Inhibition Reduces Lipoprotein(a) Uptake and Calcification in Valvular Heart Disease.
Blaser MC, Buffolo F, Halu A, Turner ME, Schlotter F, Higashi H, Pantano L, Clift CL, Saddic LA, Atkins SK, Rogers MA, Pham T, Vromman A, Shvartz E, Sukhova GK, Monticone S, Camussi G, Robson SC, Body SC, Muehlschlegel JD, Singh SA, Aikawa M, Aikawa E
Multiomics of Tissue Extracellular Vesicles Identifies Unique Modulators of Atherosclerosis and Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis.
Raju S, Botts SR, Blaser M, Prajapati K, Ho TWW, Ching C, Galant NJ, Fiddes L, Wu R, Clift CL, Pham T, Lee WL, Singh SA, Aikawa E, Fish JE, Howe KL
Endothelial cells secrete small extracellular vesicles bidirectionally containing distinct cargo to uniquely reprogram vascular cells in the circulation and vessel wall.
