Thanks ASCI for promoting our work! Very excited to share our work with the scientific community

"Mitochondrial dysfunction" is often not dysfunction at all, just reduced function. If mitochondrial "function" is reduced 100% of the time with aging, obesity, etc., is it really "dysfunction"? Isn't that by a design? Is it not an evolutionarily conserved adaptive mechanism?

Congratulations Jesse Velasco excited to see what you will accomplish next!

Excited to share our latest preprint article showing direct mitochondrial lactate oxidation in the 🫀! Ahmad A. Cluntun has a great breakdown of our findings here.

Analysis of the preprint from Gregory Ducker! As always it was a pleasure to work with the Ducker Lab and Rutter Lab to get this paper out! UofU Nora Eccles Harrison CVRTI U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry U of U NUIP

Collaborative, multi-year work by Gregory Ducker, Rutter Lab & my lab! Ground-breaking findings with important research and clinical implications! Proud of our trainees/co-first authors that we mentored during this journey: Joe Visker, PhD, RCEP, Ahmad A. Cluntun, Jesse Velasco UofU Nora Eccles Harrison CVRTI

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Paper alert!!! 🚨🔥 Mitochondrial lactate in the heart!? Say what!? Congratulations to Ahmad A. Cluntun, Joe Visker, PhD, RCEP and Jesse Velasco on an amazing collaboration with the Gregory Ducker and Stavros George Drakos labs. Check out the thread below! HHMI U of Utah Dept of Biochemistry UofU Nora Eccles Harrison CVRTI UofU Diabetes

New paper alert from our lab Rutter Lab in collaboration with the Gregory Ducker and Stavros George Drakos labs. I am truly honored for the opportunity to work with Ahmad A. Cluntun, Joe Visker, PhD, RCEP and Jesse Velasco on this awesome paper. Check it out! They did some pretty 🔥🧪 discoveries!

Really awesome to see this one out as a preprint: In the heart, lactate is directly uptaken into mitochondria via MCT1 for its oxidation! 🫀⚡ Congrats Ahmad A. Cluntun Joe Visker, PhD, RCEP Jesse Velasco and beyond. So grateful for being part of it. Check it out! ⬇️

Important insights paving the way forward! This group of younger patients also has a high probability of VAD-mediated myocardial recovery which is an outcome that can improve their long-term prognosis even more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37245143/

He’s one of the good ones! Join his new lab!

Check out Joe Visker, PhD, RCEP from the Stavros George Drakos lab conducting research focusing on cardiac recovery associated with mechanical circulatory support in the chronic heart failure setting and the acute setting. University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, State of Utah, Research at the U #hearthealth

Exercise to a longer life. Life expectancy in US for people in the top 25% of physical activity is 10.9 years longer than those in the lowest 25%. For every 1 hour of daily activity, nearly 3 hours of longer life is gained @bjsm. Link below.

This is exciting progress for #cbin1_gene_therapy and heart failure patients. The UofU press report can be found here: healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/news/…

Happy to be able to present with my lab-mate Thirupura Shankar tomorrow!

A look at the economic impact of our research: 8,340 jobs created $248m in salaries & wages paid $328m in indirect labor income earned $32m in state & local taxes generated Learn more about the impact of Research at the U: research.utah.edu/facts-and-figu…

🔬 I/R is a challenge in AMI treatment. Here we studied timing of LV unloading, mechanisms of cardioprotection, a drug intervention (rosiglitazone) 🫀Unloading+reperfusion ⬆️ myocardial salvage by 47%, linked to PPARG! Could TZDs enhance cardioprotection? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#UCARS2025! Let’s go!

🚨Postdoctoral position available now! 🚨We have an immediate fully funded position available in cardiac metabolism. We are looking for a highly motivated person to lead our animal model work in oxidative metabolism in heart! Pay is competitive with benefits offered. 1/2