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Recent NewsSeptember 28, 2009 September 10, 2009 Read the entire article by clicking here. August 31, 2009 Dr. Tsutomu Kume was awarded a RO1 grant entitled "Fox Transcription Factors in Vascular Development". Dr. Kume's grant will provide over $1.5 million of funding over a four year project period. Dr. Thomas McGarry was awarded a R21 grant entitled "Creation of Stem Cells by Nuclear Reprogramming". His grant will provide over $400,000 of funding over a two year project period. We congratulate our Investigators on this achievement. August 3, 2009 July 8, 2009 Dr. Rajesh Gupta, a research fellow working in the laboratory of Dr. Douglas Losordo, has received a postdoctoral fellowship grant. Dr. Gupta's grant, entitled "The Role of Hedgehog Interacting Protein in Sonic Hedgehog Mediated Angiogenesis and Ischemic Tissue Repair", will provide two years of funding for his research project.
June 12, 2009 Dr. Hossein Ardehali, an Investigator at Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute, served as an advocate for the American Heart Association in today's announcement of a landmark bill that provides for tighter regulation of tobacco. See news and photos at Illinois Advocacy Beat. April 9, 2009 Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute is pleased to announce that three of its investigators were awarded new research grants from NHLBI to study various topics in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Rishi Arora was awarded a RO1 grant entitled "Disruption of Autonomic Pathways in the Left Atrium by Inhibition of G-Proteins". This grant will provide over $2.2 million of funding over a five year project period. Dr. Raj Kishore was awarded a RO1 grant entitled "TNF mRNA Stability and Restenosis". His grant will provide over $1.5 million of funding over a four year project period. Dr. Douglas Losordo was awarded a RO1 grant entitled "Novel Approaches to Ischemic Tissue Repair". Dr. Losordo's grant will provide over $1.5 million of funding over a four year project period. We congratulate our investigators on this notable achievement. March 30, 2009 Preliminary data presented on March 28 as a late-breaking abstract at the American College of Cardiology's 58th annual scientific session from the largest CD34+ adult stem cell study for heart disease has shown the first evidence that delivering a potent form of autologous (from the patient) adult stem cells into the heart muscle of patients with severe angina may result in less pain and improved exercise tolerance. A video interview of Dr. Douglas Losordo discussing these results can be viewed at Cardiosource. January 30, 2009
Three postdoctoral researchers at Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute have been awarded research grants from American Heart Association to pursue exciting, original research in cardiovascular disease. Rongxue Wu, MD, PhD was awarded a two year grant award for her project entitled "Role of the Mitochondrial ATP-Binding Cassette Protein-2 in Cellular Protection. Rongxue works under the direction of Dr. Hossein Ardehali. Jörn Tongers, MD was awarded a two year grant award for his project entitled "Retention and Maintenance of Progenitor Cells in the Ischemic Target Region by Bioactive, Self-Assembling Nanofibers". Jörn works under the direction of Dr. Douglas Losordo. Prasanna Krishnamurthy, PhD was awarded a four year grant for his project entitled "Mechanisms of IL-10 Mediated Suppression of Inflammation". Prasanna works under the mentorship of Dr. Raj Kishore. | ||||
