We are excited to share the launch of the new Cardiovascular, Renal, and Metabolism Center (CRMC), an initiative focused on advancing cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health. 🩺 Led by Srinivasan Beddhu, MD, and Stavros George Drakos. Learn more: medicine.utah.edu/internal-medic… #meded

A muscle patch developed using stem cells can help to repair failing hearts without adverse effects, according to a paper in nature. go.nature.com/4hdbfRf

#UTSW research led by Elizabeth Chen, Ph.D., uncovers the actin protein’s pivotal role in cellular processes, offering new insights into cancer research and targeted therapies. Learn how this discovery could shape the future of treatment: bit.ly/40Lzw9X #CancerResearch

Thank you AJP-Heart and Circ for publishing our recent work on BRD4 in cardiac macrophages. Huge effect on MHC-II levels. doi.org/10.1152/ajphea…. Great team effort and collaboration with many, including Ron Vagnozzi and Michael Alexanian.

Excited to share our latest paper in #EHJ, led by talented postdoc Yue Yuan (who is x-less). BCM_CVRI Prof. Dr. med. Dobromir Dobrev BCM Department of Medicine EHJ Editor-in-Chief European Society of Cardiology Journals Atrial cardiomyocyte-restricted cleavage of gasdermin D promotes atrial arrhythmogenesis academic.oup.com/eurheartj/arti…

This week, we celebrated the investiture of our Director, Dr. Hesham Sadek, as the Lovaas Endowed Chairholder, and Associate Director, Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, as the Lopez Endowed Chairholder. The future of cardiovascular medicine starts at Sarver!

Please mark your calendar for this exciting scientific event on July 07-09, 2025 at the University of Manitoba!

Excited to share our latest article. 7 years ago my then 9 year old son was diagnosed with K210del DCM. With the help of my colleagues Joseph C Wu, MD, PhD, Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA and Enzo Porrello we identified an FDA approved drug that corrects the mutation. JCI - An FDA-approved drug

Happy to share our paper, "Logic-based machine learning predicts how escitalopram (LexaPro) attenuates cardiomyocyte hypertrophy" in PNASNews, with Taylor Eggertsen with Josh Travers, McKinsey Lab, & Matthew J Wolf, MD, PhD. Validated in cells, mice & patients. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Check out this job at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4179…

Heart rate matters. Great collaboration with Mike Bristow and many others. Clinical trial, endomyocardial biopsies, new molecular mechanisms of reverse remodeling in the human heart. ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.11…

#HFpEF Summit 2025 - another year, another success. Grateful for all speakers, attendees and sponsors! VCU Health Pauley Heart Center Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai David Lefer

Our first foray into using AI to tackle human cardiac fibrosis. ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…. Amazing collaboration with Gregory Way and waysciencelab.com. Spearheaded by Josh Travers and Jenna Tomkinson. Tip of the iceberg. Stay tuned!

UAB at ISHR 2025: Fantastic science, amazing friends, beautiful location! UAB Heersink School of Medicine UAB Pathology UAB Cardiovascular Disease Wende Lab

Special thanks to Issei Komuro and the amazing organizing committee for a fantastic meeting #ISHR2025 Nara. The bar has been set very high for future ISHR meetings. Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Marion Delaunay for giving an invited lecture and winning a poster award!

Amazing Circulation Research Compendium on Interorgan Crosstalk, organized and edited by Maria Kontaridis and Gabriele G. Schiattarella. The potential to manipulate fat-heart crosstalk for therapeutic purposes is enormous. Check out our take! ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

3 weeks into the new editorial board for JACC BTS, the JACC family member for basic and translational discoveries! Please consider JACC BTS for your manuscripts. We do fast, friendly and fair peer review. Because life is short and science is fast ⚡️❤️‍🔥🧠

Congratulations to Dr Natalie Gehred on her AMAZING PhD defense: Cardiac Fibroblast Heterogeneity and Epigenomic Regulation in Heart Failure UCLA Anesthesiology UCLA MBI UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Happy to announce Collin Wells and Nathan Witmer as the newest postdoctoral fellows in our group. Collin joins us from the U of Louisville (trained with Bradford Hill) and Nathan is a recent graduate of the U of Iowa (trained with Ryan Boudreau). Welcome Collin and Nathan!