AUC Appointment
Please join us in congratulating our Interim Director, Naomi Hamburg, MD, on her election to the Association of University Cardiologists.
DOM/Evans Days 2020 Award Winners
CONGRATULATIONS to the following award recipients: Citizenship Award Mike Kirber, PhD – Research Implementation Research Mentoring Award Katya Ravid, DSc – Cardiovascular Medicine Evans Center IBR Research Collaborator of the Year Award Jessica Fetterman, PhD – Vascular Biology Vijaya Kolachalama, PhD – Computational Biomedicine
Whitaker Cardiovascular Pilot Grant Announcement
To: WCVI member FROM: Naomi Hamburg, MD RE: CALL FOR PROPOSALS: WCVI pilot grant announcement for post docs. Please see the attached document for details. WCVI pilot grant announcement
Nearly $17M Invested to Fast-track Studies on Health Impacts of Vaping, Nicotine on Youth
The American Heart Association is investing nearly $17 million to fund a two-year research initiative, ENACT (End Nicotine Addiction in Children and Teens) led by scientists from Boston University School of Medicine, the Ohio State University and Yale University focusing on the health impacts of e-cigarettes and other nicotine delivery systems on youth and young […]
June 2019: Grant Announcements
June 14, 2019 Grant Number: 1R01HL145985-01A1 Principal Investigator(s): Flora Sam, MD Project Title: Mechanistic underpinnings of increased adipose tissue in HFpEF Project Period: 07/01/2019 – 06/30/2023 June 14, 2019 Grant Number: 1R21AA026922-01A1 Principal Investigator(s):JINGYAN HAN, PHD Project Title: Alcohol-induced dysregulation of thiol homeostasis and endothelial function Project Period: 05/15/2019 – 04/30/2021
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 Cardiac dysfunction” David […]
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
January 2019: Shinobu Matssura DVM, PhD
January 29, 2019 1K010D025290-01A1 Shinobu Matsuura DVM, PhD Project Title: The Bone Marrow Extracellular Matrix: Scaffold of Hematopoiesis Project period: 02/01/2019 – 01/31/2024
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”