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• Dotzauer Family Makes Gift to Cardiovascular Medicine

  On October 2, 2025, Heather Dotzauer and her family presented the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine (UW DOM) Division of Cardiovascular Medicine with $9,000 to support cardiovascular imaging research. Their gift honors Heather’s late …

• Wisconsin Partnership Program Grant Awarded to Dr. Saba Munawar, PhD, MS

    Dr. Saba Munawar, PhD, MS Dr. Saba Munawar, American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow in the Eckhardt Lab, has been awarded the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) PERC Postdoctoral Grant for her project, “Decoding KCNJ2 Variants: Mechanistic …

• CVRC/AHA Undergraduate Summer Trainees

  Congratulations to the CVRC/AHA Undergraduate Summer trainees for completing their 10-week cardiovascular research experience! The CVRC Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowship in addition to the American Heart Association Summer Training Program in Basic and Translational Cardiovascular Research …

• UW–Madison researchers find hidden clues in a decades-old mystery surrounding cardiovascular disease

  “For multiple reasons, this region has been very hard to study,” says Valentina Lo Sardo, the lead researcher on this project, an assistant professor of Cellular and Regenerative Biology, and a Stem Cell and Regenerative …

• Welcome Dr. Thekla Oechtering, MD, PD Dr med to the CVRC

  Dr. Oechtering joined the UW Department of Radiology in 2020 as a visiting assistant professor before transitioning to a scientist role in 2023, a Cardiothoracic fellow in 2024, and then as faculty in 2025. She …

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