2010 CVI Seed Grants Recipients
Five $50,000 seed grants were awarded in 2010 addressing the question: How does the cardiovascular system age?
PI: Tim Assimes, MD, PhD
Collaborators: John Ioannidis, Marcia Stefanick, Manisha Desai, Josh Knowles and Marco Perez.
Comprehensive and real time assessment of a genetic risk score for cardiovascular disease in the Women's Health Initiative
PI: Joshua Spin, MD, PhD
Collaborators: Junya Azuma, Alicia Deng, Lars Maegdefessel, Philip S. Tsao, Atul Butte, Alex A. Morgan
Effects of Aging and Gender on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Development, and the Role of MicroRNAs
PI: Alex Dunn, PhD
Nanoscale in situ force measurements to uncover the roles of mechanical force in age-associated ventricular hypertrophy
PI: Francois Haddad, MD
Co-PIS: S Shen-Orr, C Weyand, M. Davis, Collaborators: Ingela Schnittger, D Liang, .J Montoya, A Butte, MD, PhD
Telomere Biology & Cardiovascular Aging in Healthy Volunteers
PI: Helen Blau, PhD
Collaborators: F Blankenburg, F Mourkioti, s Sampath, S Sampath, M McConnell
Novel metabolic imaging of age-related redox changes and cardiomyopathy in Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy