Upcoming CVTG RIP July 25th

Brant Isakson, PhD, was awarded a $2.6 million NIH NHLBI grant to study the role of renin in hypertension. Dr. Isakson is an emerging leader in cardiovascular research. 🦕Brant Isakson🦖 UVA CVRC UVA Health #BloodPressure #UVASchoolOfMedicine news.med.virginia.edu/research/brant…

Save the Date for the Robert M. Berne Lecture November 7th, 2024 Dr. Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chair Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern, Chicago IL

Pavelec & colleagues found that deletion of #PANX1 in cardiomyocytes results in increased glycolytic #bioenergetics and #neutrophil recruitment during #HeartFailure. Learn more at ahajrnls.org/4celqSb 🦕Brant Isakson🦖 @markokusa UVA CVRC

New research by Lian-Wang Guo, PhD, Craig Kent, MD, & Coleen McNamara, MD, is looking for targeted approaches to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms. Backed by a $2.8M NIH grant, this work could mark a breakthrough in developing the first medicinal therapy. bit.ly/3SCpDYT

Updated: Grant Brewing featuring Luke Dunaway on Monday August 12, 2024 from 10:00am to 11:00am.

Here's a more detailed UVA Medicine article on our recent iScience paper. We collaborated with multiple UVA and AstraZeneca groups to discover compounds and pathways for cardiomyocyte proliferation. Virginia BME UVA CVRC newsroom.uvahealth.com/2024/08/14/how…

CVTG RIP Hot Seats happening today 8/15/24

We continue to fight against STEMI! Goflikicept reduces systemic post-STEMI inflammation, making this IL-1 blocker a promising therapy! Link doi.org/10.1161/CIRCUL… AntonioAbbate Benjamin Van Tassell Angela Taylor Georgia Thomas Azita Talasaz Marco Del Buono Amr Marawan Juani Damonte

🚨 New mini-series alert! 🚨 Check out inaugural @cardionerds #CardioRheum episode: The Role of Inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease with expert AntonioAbbate + Gurleen Kaur, MD, Ronaldo Correa Fabiano, Richard Ferraro 🔗Audio, pearls & notes🔗 cardionerds.com/387-cardio-rhe…

Through a combination of traditional methods and machine learning, BME professor Jeff Saucerman and his lab have identified medications that might regenerate heart cells to repair damage. at.virginia.edu/6ncq6u Saucerman Group @uvabme AstraZeneca NIH

Thanks for the excellent summary of our recent work Hao Yin ! Congratulations to Sohel Shamsuzzaman and Becca Deaton and all their coauthors for this fantastic study. UVA CVRC

Natasha D. Sheybani (BME) received a $600,000 Department of Defense 🇺🇸 Idea Award for a project that could revolutionize care for pediatric brain tumors. With Children's National Hospital 🏥, she'll study a treatment that could improve survivorship. Virginia BME Natasha Sheybani, PhD at.virginia.edu/yn9kdc

Congratulations to Dr. Peirce-Cottler on the 2024 Landis Award!!! 🍾 Peirce-Cottler Lab

A UVA School of Medicine scientist and other experts from around the world have developed the first comprehensive guidelines for reporting cutting-edge “precision medicine” research in an effort to improve patient care and #healthequity for people everywhere. bit.ly/3T2dTz2

news.med.virginia.edu/research/jonat… Jonathan Lindner, MD, and Brent French, PhD, Awarded $2.9 Million to Study Ultrasound Cavitation to Enhance AAV Gene Therapy in the Heart UVA Cardio Christopher Kramer MD

Register for NAVBO's DEI event! Tuesday Sep 10 at 1pm EST. Women in Science: Challenges and Coping Strategies (Part 2): Mentorship Details and link: rb.gy/1837cw

Upcoming CVTG RIP being held on 9/12/24

Thrilled to organize the 3rd Annual Emerging Leaders in Biomedical Engineering Symposium with Natasha Sheybani, PhD and Dan Abebayehu, PhD at Virginia BME. We will hear from six senior postdocs and our keynote speaker Erika Moore in exciting talks.

Congratulations to Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD on receiving the 2024 Eugene M. Landis Award by the Microcirculatory Society, which recognizes an outstanding, active investigator in the field of microcirculation. Virginia BME bit.ly/47cLBrs