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Objectives

The overall objective of our research 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.

News

NIH Merit Award (May 22 2009)
Ken Spitzer, Director of CVRTI, Professor of Physiology, has received a five year renewal of an NIH Merit Award for $1.13M. The project is titled pH Regulation in Heart Cells. Ken's co-investigator is Dr. Richard Vaughan-Jones, PhD, Professor of Physiology, Oxford University, UK.
NIH Appointment (May 22 2009)
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.

Featured Research

Seminars

See our seminars page for a list of past seminar topics and speakers.