Cardiovascular

Research in the cardiovascular area addresses basic questions relevant to the establishment, remodeling, and pathology of the heart and circulatory system. Experimental approaches include developmental and cardiovascular disease models, and studies of the genetic basis of disease.

Faculty

Amy Davidoff

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Robert Friesel

Interests: Growth factors (FGFs), signal transduction, vascular biology, skeletal development, cancer

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Thomas Gridley

Interests: Birth defects, Developmental mutants, Notch signaling pathway in development and disease, Snail family genes, cardiovascular development

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Ron Korstanje

Interests: Complex trait genetics, Systems genetics, Cardiovascular disease, Renal disease.

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Lucy Liaw

Interests: Vascular development and remodeling, cancer biology

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Volkhard Lindner

Interests: cardiovascular

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Leif Oxburgh

Interests: embryonic kidney progenitor cells, organogenesis, tissue engineering, acute kidney injury

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Ilka Pinz

Interests: Cardiovascular disease in obesity and hyperlipidemia

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Igor Prudovsky

Interests: Growth factors and cytokines in the cardiovascular system. Cell proliferation and senescence.

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Cory Theberge

Interests: Lamin B nuclear receptor, cholesterol biosynthesis, veterinary pharmacology/pharmacy, organic/medicinal chemistry, drug stability, cholinergic pharmacology, LCMS

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Calvin Vary

Interests: Mechanisms of TGF-beta receptor regulation in vascular development and disease. Roles of endoglin in prostate cancer and its microenvironment. Study of biomedically-relevant models using mass spectrometry for quantitative protein analysis.

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