Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Dr. Virginia Hahn, assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology, received the 2021 Joseph Loscalzo Award in Basic/Translational Science for her article "Myocardial Gene Expression Signatures in Human Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction." The award recognizes the best basic/translational paper published in Circulation in the preceding twelve months. Dr. Hahn and Dr. Hildur Knutsdottir, […]
Dr. Garima Sharma will be the next Associate Vice Chair for Women’s Careers in Academic Medicine and Chair of the Task Force on Women’s Academic Careers in Medicine. Dr. Sharma’s interest in diversity, gender and health equity stems from her experiences as a first-generation immigrant and woman navigating Cardiology—a sub-specialty of medicine where women are underrepresented. She […]
Dr. Myron Weisfeldt, professor in the Division of Cardiology and former director of the Department of Medicine, was selected to receive the Watkins-Saunders Award from the American Heart Association. This award recognizes outstanding commitment to overcoming health and community disparities in the state of Maryland. Established in 2012, the Watkins-Saunders Award honors Dr. Levi Watkins […]
Dr. Michelle Ogunwole, fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine, was selected as one of the recipients of the Trudy Bush Fellowship for Cardiovascular Disease Research in Women’s Health from the American Heart Association during the 2021 AHA EPILifestyle Scientific Sessions. She was recognized for her abstract, “Disparities in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Among US-Vs. […]
ARTICLE: CaMKII oxidation is a critical performance/disease trade-off acquired at the dawn of vertebrate evolution AUTHORS: Qinchuan Wang, Erick O Hernández-Ochoa, Meera C Viswanathan, Ian D Blum, Danh C Do, Jonathan M Granger, Kevin R Murphy, An-Chi Wei, Susan Aja, Naili Liu, Corina M Antonescu, Liliana D Florea, C Conover Talbot Jr, David Mohr, Kathryn R Wagner, Sergi Regot, Richard M Lovering, Peisong Gao, Mario A Bianchet, Mark N Wu, Anthony Cammarato, Martin F Schneider, Gabriel S […]
The COVID-19 Research Response Program Therapeutics Team, under the leadership of Drs. Paul Auwaerter and Mark Sulkowski, was provided philanthropic funds targeted for research in two critical topics related to the pandemic. Addressing clinical or translational research related to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines Gain an understanding of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome. Solicitation, review and awarding of grants are […]
ARTICLE: Cellular and molecular pathobiology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction AUTHORS: Sumita Mishra and David A Kass JOURNAL: Nat Rev Cardiol. 2021 Jan 11. doi: 10.1038/s41569-020-00480-6. Abstract Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) affects half of all patients with heart failure worldwide, is increasing in prevalence, confers substantial morbidity and mortality, and has very […]
ARTICLE: MCU Overexpression Rescues Inotropy and Reverses Heart Failure by Reducing SR Ca2+ Leak AUTHORS: Ting Liu, Ni Yang, Agnieszka Sidor, Brian O’Rourke JOURNAL: Circ Res. 2021 Apr 16;128(8):1191-1204. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.318562. Epub 2021 Feb 1. Abstract Rationale: In heart failure (HF), impaired sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ release and cytosolic Na+ overload depress mitochondrial Ca2+ (mCa2+) signaling, resulting in a diminished ability to maintain matrix NAD(P)H […]
Congratulations to the below faculty members who were recently promoted. Drs. Duvuru Geetha and Rosalyn Stewart are the first in the Department of Medicine to be promoted through the new Clinical Excellence Promotions Track. Professor Geetanjali Chander, General Internal Medicine Deidra Crews, Nephrology Duvuru Geetha, Nephrology Joseph Marine, Cardiology Rasika Mathias, Allergy and Clinical Immunology […]
ARTICLE: PGC1/PPAR drive cardiomyocyte maturation at single cell level via YAP1 and SF3B2 AUTHORS: Sean A Murphy, Matthew Miyamoto, Anaïs Kervadec, Suraj Kannan, Emmanouil Tampakakis, Sandeep Kambhampati, Brian Leei Lin, Sam Paek, Peter Andersen, Dong-Ik Lee, Renjun Zhu, Steven S An, David A Kass, Hideki Uosaki, Alexandre R Colas, Chulan Kwon JOURNAL: Nat Commun. 2021 Mar 12;12(1):1648. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21957-z. Abstract Cardiomyocytes undergo significant structural and functional changes after birth, and these fundamental […]