News
Dr. Alonso
Moreno, CVRTI investigator and Professor of Medicine has
been selected to serve as a permanent member of the Intercellular
Interactions Systems Study Section of NIH for the term
beginning July 1, 2008 and ending June 30 , 2012.
Student Award
Porter Jones, doctoral student at the University of Utah
Medical School, received a Medical Student Research Program
Award from the American Heart Association. He will work with
Dr. Frank Sachse on confocal imaging of mechanically
strained cardiac microstructure.
Featured Research
Read our
featured research article:
Spatiotemporal Relationship
Between Intracellular Ca2+ Dynamics and Wave Fragmentation
During Ventricular Fibrillation in Isolated Blood-Perfused
Pig Hearts
Mark Warren, José F. Huizar, Alexander G. Shvedko, Alexey V. Zaitsev
Circulation Research—Published online before print October 11, 2007
is to better understand
how both normal and diseased hearts generate electrical signals
and how these signals modulate contraction. Such knowledge
provides a basis for more effective treatment of arrhythmias and
other disease states that affect ion movements across heart cell
membranes. Our multidisciplinary team of investigators includes
physicians, bioengineers, physiologists, and computational
modelers who approach these goals from the molecular, cellular
and whole heart levels.