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• Dr. Amish Raval is Awarded Grant

  June 29, 2018 CVRC trainer, Dr. Amish Raval, MD, associate professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, has been awarded $107,000 over 1 year  from the State Economic Engagement and Development (SEED) Research Program for a proposal entitled, “Bioengineered …

• Department of Medicine Research Day Poster Awardees

  June 29, 2018 Postdoc fellow, Louise Reilly, PhD, mentored by CVRC trainer, Dr. Lee Eckhardt, MD was selected as a Best Poster Awardee for basic science at the Department of Medicine’s annual Research Day event. …

• Former CVRC Trainee, Dr. Matthew Tattersall, Receives American Heart Association Award

  June 1, 2018 Former CVRC trainee, Matthew Tattersall, DO, MS, assistant professor (CHS), Cardiovascular Medicine, was selected for a Summer 2018 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled, “Asthma Phenotypes …

• 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 …

• Team Led by Dr. Lee Eckhardt Receives Best Paper Award

  May 14, 2018 An article authored by the research team of CVRC trainer, Lee Eckhardt, MD, MS (pictured at upper left), associate professor, Cardiovascular Medicine has been selected for the 2017 Best Paper Award by the editors …

• Funding Awarded for Heart Arrhythmia Research by Dr. Alexey Glukhov

  May 14, 2018 A new research study led by CVRC trainer, Alexey Glukhov, PhD, assistant professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, has been awarded awarded $1.9 M over 5 years by the National Institutes of Health – National Heart, Lung, and …

• 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 …

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