Kathryn Davis was awarded AHA Fellowship Award
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The Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research Training Institute (CVRTI) studies cardiac function with a basic and translational focus. Our research provides a highly integrated/collaborative approach to the study of cardiac electrophysiology/arrhyrhmogenesis, mitochondrial calcium signaling and myocardial recovery in the chronic heart failure setting.
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Franklin Lab recently participated in Adobe's annual "I Heart Tech" event focused on STEAM education
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Emilee Horiuchi to run in Boston Marathon on April 20, 2020
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Enrique Balderas Angeles receives Honorable Mention in UPDA poster competition 2019.
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Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD has been appointed as a permanent member of the NIH Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Sciences (CICS) Study Section (2019-2023).
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Congratulations to Enrique Balderas (CVRTI Research Associate) and his colleagues for their August 2019 publication featured as the cover page of the Journal of Physiology.
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Sarah Franklin is selected to receive the 2020 Outstanding Investigator Award of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR)
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Hanin Sheikh was chosen to represent the University of Utah and CVRTI and showcase her research for Utah lawmakers and the general public
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Teenagers visit CVRTI for an exciting ‘Night in the Lab’
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Featured Research
Huang C, Wasmund SL, Yamaguchi T, Knighton N, Hitchcock RW, Polejaeva IA, White KL, Marrouche NF, Sachse FB. Towards Automated Quantification of Atrial Fibrosis in Images from Catheterized Fiber-Optics Confocal Microscopy Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Funct Imaging Model Heart. 2019 Jun;11504:168-176. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-21949-9_19. Epub 2019 May 30.