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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

Grant Award (Nov 9 2009)

Alexey Zaitsev, PhD, Research Associate Professor of Bioengineering, is the recent recipient of a 2 yr NIH supplement award of $135,000 for his R01 grant titled: Ventricular Fibrillation in a Globally Ischemic Heart: From Cell to ECG

Grant Award (Oct 23 2009)

A five year $8.2M NIH grant to study heart development has been awarded to Dr. Marty Tristani-Firouzi, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and Dr. Joseph Yost, PhD Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah. Dr. Yost is the grant's principal investigator.

Grant Award (Oct 6 2009)

Dr. Mike Sheets (CVRTI) and Dr. Dorothy Hanck (University of Chicago) have been awarded a 2 year, $1.4M, NIH R01 grant for their research titled Drug Therapy Targeted to the Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel.