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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The Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute (CVRTI) studies cardiac function with a translational focus. Our research provides a highly integrated approach to the study of cardiac electrophysiology, ion transport, structural and functional remodeling of excitation-contraction coupling in heart failure, proteomics and epigenetics of heart failure, metabolomics of myocardial ischemia and cardiac arrest, and mitochondral function.
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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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Rachit Badolia was awarded the AHA Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2019
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Amanda Horiuchi was recently awarded the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
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Muhammad Khan has been awarded a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship
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Bram Hunt has been awarded a fellowship
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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.