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… Read More »Hahn Receives Loscalzo Award
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… Read More »Sharma Named Associate Vice Chair for Women’s Careers in Academic Medicine
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… Read More »Weisfeldt Receives Watkins-Saunders Award
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… Read More »Ogunwole Selected for Trudy Bush Fellowship
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… Read More »CaMKII oxidation is a critical performance/disease trade-off acquired at the dawn of vertebrate evolution
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… Read More »Four from the DOM Receive COVID-19 Research Response Program Grants
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:… Read More »Cellular and molecular pathobiology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
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… Read More »MCU Overexpression Rescues Inotropy and Reverses Heart Failure by Reducing SR Ca2+ Leak
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… Read More »Faculty Promotions and Additions
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… Read More »PGC1/PPAR drive cardiomyocyte maturation at single cell level via YAP1 and SF3B2