Congratulations to Dr. Jay Yang on his retirement
The Cardiovascular Research Center recently extended best wishes to Dr. Jay Yang, MD, PhD on his retirement from the School of Medicine and Public Health. On behalf of the faculty and students, we would like …
Functional Cardiac Fibroblasts Derived From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Via Second Heart Field Progenitors
Jianhua Zhang, Ran Tao, Katherine F. Campbell, Juliana L. Carvalho, Edward C. Ruiz, Gina C. Kim, Eric G. Schmuck, Amish N. Raval, André Monteiro da Rocha, Todd J. Herron, José Jalife, James A. Thomson & …
CVRC member, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Receives Pilot Award from UW ICTR
July 27th, 2018 CVRC member, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Receives Pilot Award from UW ICTR. Of the recently announced 24 Pilot Awards from UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW ICTR) for translational, clinical, methods, dissemination and …
Dr. Lee Eckhardt is Awarded Grant from NIH-NHLBI
July 27th, 2018 CVRC trainer and past trainee, Dr. Lee Eckhardt, MD, MS, associate professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, has been awarded $1.5M over 4 years (R01) from the National Institutes of Health – National Heart, Lung, …
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 …
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 …
Advance furthers stem cells for use in drug discovery, cell therapy
July 14, 2017 CVRC trainer, William Murphy, and former trainee, Eric Nguyen, developed a new material for growing and raising stem cells that could allow researchers to move away from using Matrigel. This week, a UW–Madison …
Cai Research Group Attends 2017 SNMMI Annual Meeting in Denver
June 20, 2017 CVRC member, Dr. Weibo Cai, and the Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology Laboratory received multiple awards at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver. The lab is led …
34 faculty honored with Vilas professorships
June 19, 2017 CVRC trainer, Kristyn Masters, was named to Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship, an award recognizing distinguished scholarship as well as standout efforts in teaching and service. The professorship provides five years of flexible …
Researchers Earn UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative Awards
April 19, 2017 The 16-member UW2020 Council then ranked the 119 submitted proposals and final selections were made by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education leadership. The 21 funded projects include …
UW Treats First Participant in Trial of Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Failure
April 17, 2017 UW-Madison associate professor of medicine and CVRC member, Dr. Amish Raval, is one of the principal investigators for an innovative clinical trial using stem cells for the treatment of heart failure that develops after a …
Dr. Heather Johnson Creates ‘My Heart, My Choice’ Online Resources to Help Young Adults Manage Hypertension
February 9, 2017 CVRC trainer and past trainee, Heather Johnson, leads program aimed at helping young adults live a healthier life, lower their blood pressure, and prevent heart disease. “When we worked with diverse focus …
22nd Annual Poster Fair Award Winners
December 07, 2016 Congratulations to the 22nd Annual Scientific Poster Fair Award Winners! Di Lang, PhD, Research Associate, Glukhov Lab, Department of Medicine Jeanette Shultz, Graduate Student, Emborg Lab, Cellular and Molecular Pathology Graduate Program …
Stem Cell ‘Heart Patch’ Moves Closer to Clinic
September 21, 2016 UW-Madison faculty and CVRC members Dr. Timothy Kamp and Dr. William Burlingham are working with teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Duke University to develop three-dimensional patches that will …
WIMR II Receives LEED Gold Certification
May 06, 2016 The second tower for the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMRII) was awarded the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is an …
Twelve Professors Receive Romnes Faculty Fellowships
May 5, 2016 Kristyn Masters and William Murphy, CVRC members and trainers in the Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science, have been honored with Romnes Faculty Fellowships.
Top Doctors of 2016 Honored in Madison Magazine
March 23, 2016 Many UW Health physicians have been honored in Madison Magazine’s 2016 Top Doctor Survey, including multiple CVRC trainers and members: James Stein, Cardiovascular Medicine Eliot Williams, Hematology J. Carter Ralphe, Pediatric Cardiovascular …
Research Finds ‘Encyclopedia’ of Genes That Regulate Blood Cell Development
June 17, 2015 CVRC trainer, Emery Bresnick, and trainee, Kyle Hewitt, produce results suggesting that Samd14 is required for blood precursors to function properly. “The analysis of this gene was a proof of principle that our …
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