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Two genomic-based studies from the Heart Healthy Lenoir study were published in the last month. Heart Healthy Lenoir was a multidisciplinary research project that aimed to reduce cardiovascular disease in Lenoir County, North Carolina by developing new approaches to care, from prevention to treatment. The lead investigator of the Heart...

A multidisciplinary team from 黑料网鈥檚 Departments of Nutrition, Pharmacology, Pathology, and the McAllister Heart Institute have published new findings on genetics and metabolism in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The paper, 鈥淢odeling the Transition from Decompensated to Pathological Hypertrophy,鈥� is a collaboration by Florencia Pascual (Nutrition), Jonathan C....

Jimena Giudice, PhD has received a Basil O鈥機onnor Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes Foundation. The mission of the March of Dimes Foundation is to prevent birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. The Basil O鈥機onnor Starter Scholar Research Awards support junior scientists embarking on their independent...

Dr. Craig Lee and Dr. Rick Stouffer lead research looking at genetic testing to inform which blood thinner to use following stent placement. Summary with links to the full article here.

George (Rick) Stouffer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiology, has been awarded the Ernest and Hazel Craige Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine. Read more here.

Nicole Fleming, a PhD candidate in Liu Lab, has received a Congenital Heart Defect Research Award from the American Heart Association and the Children鈥檚 Heart Foundation for her work on defective ventricular growth in embryos. Her research aims to better understand pharmacological treatments that may improve heart function. Read more.

Victoria Bautch, PhD, has been awarded $6.5 million from the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute. The award will enable the Bautch Lab to study the molecular and cellular control of angiogenesis, a naturally occurring process responsible for the formation and growth of blood...

Cell Reports publishes “Initiating Events in Direct Cardiomyocyte Reprogramming,” new research from Frank Conlon, PhD, in collaboration with the labs of McAllister’s Li Qian, PhD, and Ileana Cristea, PhD of Princeton. Access the paper or read an overview of the new research.

Jiandong Liu, PhD has received a $2 million research grant from the NIH for his project 鈥淢olecular regulation of ventricular chamber maturation.鈥� In September 2017, he received one year of funding from the NIH for a related project. The new funding demonstrates the NIH鈥檚 continuing commitment to supporting Dr. Liu鈥檚...

A multidisciplinary research group from McAllister Heart Institute was awarded a competitive renewal of their R01 from the NHLBI to further develop Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) ultrasound for noninvasively characterizing the structure and composition of carotid atherosclerotic plaque for assessing stroke risk. The research team spans several investigators and...