Congrats to one of the superstar members of the Garcia Lab, the future doctor Ashley Pietra who did a great job presenting our work on the impact of PDE5 inhibitor therapy on cardiac metabolism at Additional Ventures #SVIM2024 🖤 CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine @CUDeptofPeds

Thanks Additional Ventures for supporting our work and for allowing another talented member of the Garcia Lab (Mary Turner) to present our recent work on immune cell - cardiomyocyte crosstalk in HLHS at #SVIM2024 ! CU Anschutz Medical Campus @CUDeptofPeds CU School of Medicine Children’s Colorado Research and Innovation

Garcia Lab 2024 > CU Anschutz Medical Campus @CUDeptofPeds CU Cardiology CU School of Medicine Children’s Colorado Research and Innovation

And finally - congrats to Lavine Lab for presenting prelim data on an exciting new venture! I’m looking forward to learning from you and collaborating on this effort to create an SV muti-omic single cell atlas #SVIM2024 Additional Ventures WashU Medicine CU Anschutz Medical Campus

Mitochondria and Metabolism in Heart Failure Session kicking off now in S401A at #AHA2024 - The best organelle with the best speakers!

First up is Dr. Scott Summers talking about cardiac ceramides (my favorite lipid class)! #AHA2024

Next up is Dr. Asa Gustafsson discussing mitophagy and protein aggregation in the heart! #AHA2024

Next up is superstar mito expert Dr. Rong Tian discussing mitochondria as a heart failure therapeutic target #AHA24

Fourth up is Dr. Luca Scorrano talking about impaired mitochondrial homeostasis: the epicenter of heart failure #AHA2024

Last but not least, Dr. Zhao Wang discussing protein misfolding: a novel regulator of cardiac mitochondria #AHA2024

So excited to partner with Fabrice Dabertrand and co as one of 6 funded teams of investigators in the new NINDS Center Without Walls (CWOW) to advance the science of vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) 🧠 CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU School of Medicine 🧬

Today, we highlight our secondary faculty member Fabrice Dabertrand, PhD, Associate Professor CU Department of Anesthesiology and Associate Professor of Pharmacology, for receiving a prestigious NIH RF1 grant. Dr. Dabertrand was awarded this grant in collaboration with Anastacia Garcia, PhD,

Thanks Project Bridge Colorado!

Thrilled to welcome Prof. Ed Thorp EdT to CU Cardiology for our Cardio/Pulmonary Research Seminar Series. Thank you for sharing exciting new work on immuno-metabolism in HFpEF & meeting w/ our team McKinsey Lab Benjamin Kopecky KC Woulfe, PhD Lahm Lab Sue Gu Suet-Nee Chen

Sign created! #standupforscience2025 #denver

We finally have a lab website! Check it out at GarciaLaboratory.com CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU Cardiology Children’s Colorado Research and Innovation

Congratulations Fabrice Dabertrand and team! Beautiful work 🧠

I’m so happy to share our last publication: Biocompatibility Assessment of an Injectable Carbon Nanotube-Functionalized Reverse Thermal Gel for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Applications | ACS Applied Bio Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… CU Denver Bioengineering CU Cardiology