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• Former CVRC Trainee is Awarded NIH F31

  March 31st, 2018 Former CVRC trainee, Catherine Steffel, has been awarded an F31 grant by the National Institutes of Health for her project titled, “In-vivo Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging of Carotid Plaque Validated with 3D Reconstructed …

• A Wisconsin Doctor’s Tips on Women’s Heart Health

  March 23rd, 2018 CVRC trainer and former trainee, Dr. Heather Johnson, offers tips on women’s heart health. Discover Wisconsin’s video about health tips in honor of women’s heart health month featured Heather Johnson, MD, MS, associate …

• Faculty recognized with 2018-19 Kellett Mid-Career, H.I. Romnes and WARF Named Professorship fellowships

  March 15, 2018   CVRC trainer, Dr. Gail Robertson, PhD has received a 2018-19 Kellett Mid-Career Award, and Dr. Ying Ge, PhD has been awarded the H.I Romnes Faculty Fellowship. Gail Robertson (Kellett), professor of neuroscience, studies …

• Clearing Up Confusion: Looking at the New Blood Pressure Guidelines

  January 24th, 2018 Former CVRC postdoc trainee, Dr. Matthew Tattersall, DO, assistant professor (CHS), Cardiovascular Medicine, explains new guidelines for managing and diagnosing  high blood pressure. The American Heart Association released new guidelines for diagnosing …

• Understanding atrial fibrillation in patients with high blood pressure

  January 12th, 2018 CVRC trainer, Alexey Glukhov, PhD, assistant professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, has been awarded $100,000 over two years by the Wisconsin Partnership Program’s New Investigator Program for a proposal entitled, “Mechano-Electrical Feedback in Pathophysiology …

• Machine-learning Algorithm Predicts Outcomes After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Heart Failure

  January 11th, 2018 Former CVRC postdoc trainee, Matthew Kalscheur, MD, assistant professor (CHS), Cardiovascular Medicine, discusses article about a machine-learning algorithm that predicts CRT clinical outcomes in patients wit heart failure based on data from …

• Two New Grants Worth $10 Million Awarded to Help Patients in Wisconsin Quit Smoking

  January 3, 2018 CVRC trainer, Dr. James Stein serves as principal investigator for University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention’s study designed to help people quit smoking. The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco …

• New hope for stopping an understudied heart disease in its tracks

  December 25, 2017 CVRC trainer, Dr. Kristyn Masters, PhD is leading a team of researchers that have teased apart the early cascade of events that may eventually cause stenosis, a severe narrowing of the aortic …

• Dudley Lamming, Matthew Merrins and the CVRC’s Timothy Hacker Receive Grant

  December 13, 2017 CVRC Senior Scientist, Timothy Hacker, PhD, is a co-investigator of a proposal just awarded $2.26M over 5 years called, “The regulation of health and longevity by branched-chain amino acids.” Dudley Lamming, PhD …

• 23rd Annual Poster Fair Award Winners

  December 6, 2017 Congratulations to the 23rd Annual Scientific Poster Fair Award Winners! Francisco Alvarado, PhD, Research Associate, Valdivia Lab, Department of Medicine Kazuyuki Kasahara, PhD, Research Associate, Rey Lab, Department of Bacteriology Wenxuan (Vege) …

• New and Improved Method to Calculate LDL Cholesterol Numbers

  October 27, 2017 CVRC trainer, James Stein, speaks of a more helpful method to calculate LDL cholesterol levels. James Stein, MD, professor, Cardiovascular Medicine and Robert Turell Professor in Cardiovascular Research, commented on a new …

• WARF announces annual grant figures and Innovation Award winners

  October 18th, 2017 CVRC Members Peiman Hematti, Eric Schmuck and Amish Raval win WARF Innovation Award for developing therapeutic cells for tissue-specific repair. An independent panel of judges selected the Innovation Award winners from a …

• UW–Madison to partner in $20 million cell-based therapy center

  September 12th, 2017 The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $20 million to a consortium of universities, including the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to support a new engineering research center, the Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies …

• CVRC Members Nominated for WARF Innovator of the Year Award

  September 8th, 2017 CVRC members Peiman Hematti, MD (pictured at left), professor, Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care, Amish Raval, MD (pictured in middle), associate professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Eric Schmuck, PhD (pictured at right), associate scientist, Cardiovascular …