WCVI News & Announcements

WCVI 2019 Pilot Grant Announcement 

WCVI 2019 Pilot Grant Announcement  Congratulations to David Pimentel, MD and Markus Bachschmid, PhD (who submitted a combined proposal) and Frank Naya, PhD (on the Charles River Campus) for having been awarded the 2019 WCVI Pilot awards. Each Award is worth $25,000 for one year.  “C-Terminal BNP as a novel marker of... More

Franco Puleo wins American Physiological Society’s Porter Fellowship

May 20, 2019 Franco Puleo, a PhD student in the Wainford Lab, has been awarded an American Physiological Society's Porter Fellowship that includes a full year stipend.  Project title: "Sympathetic nervous system regulation of the NCC in salt sensitive hypertension"   American Physiological Society's Porter Fellowship.  

Pilot Grant Announcement 2019

WCVI Pilot Grant The Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute (WCVI) seeks pilot projects from Investigators from the WCVI.  For more information about the pilot and how to apply, click here: WCVI pilot grant announcement 2019 Key Dates Full Application Receipt Deadline: May 1, 2019 Funding Decision Date: June 1, 2019 Funding Start Date: July 1, 2019 For questions contact Nancy Clinton at nclinton@bu.edu

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April 2019: Grant Announcement

April 1, 2019 Grant Number: KO1HL143142-01A1 Principal Investigator: Jessica Fetterman, PhD Project Title: Relations of Mitochondrial genetic variation and function with atrial fibrillation Project Period: 4/1/2019 – 3/31/2024

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March 2019: Jessica Fetterman, PhD

Grant Number: 1K01HL143142-01A1 FAIN: K01HL143142 Principal Investigator: Jessica Leann Fetterman, PhD Project Title: Relations of Mitochondrial Genetic Variation and Function with Atrial Fibrillation

February 2019: Grant Announcement

February 1, 2019 Grant Number: KO1OD025290-01A1 Principal Investigator: Shinobu Matsuura, PhD Project Title: The bone marrow extracellular matrix: scaffold of hematopoiesis Project Period: 2/1/2019 – 1/31/2024

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November 2018: Alissa Frame

November 7, 2018 Congratulations to Alissa Frame  (MD, PhD candidate, from the Wainford lab) ! She won the Third  Place Basic Research Award in the 2018 Evans Department of Medicine Research Days, Oral Presentations Session on October 11, 2018.   “Renal and Neural Mechanisms of Salt Sensitivity in Age-Related Hypertension”

October 2018: Richard Wainford, PhD

Grant announcement:  1R56AG057687-01A1 Contact PI / Project Leader: WAINFORD, RICHARD DAVID  Title: AGING AND HYPERTENSION: INTEGRATED RENAL AND SYMPATHETIC CONTROL OF BLOOD PRESSURE Date 09/15/2018-8/31/2019    

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