Winter 2023 WashU Alumni Newsletter (pdf) (Links to an external site)

Winter 2023 WashU Alumni Newsletter (pdf)
Echocardiography Advancing Multiple Subspecialties. In the Cardiac Diagnostic Laboratory at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, interventional echocardiography has become a routine practice in the rapidly evolving fields of mitral valve and tricuspid valve replacement.

Putting Radiation to the Test to Heal Irregular Heartbeat (Links to an external site)

Putting Radiation to the Test to Heal Irregular Heartbeat
Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer, a bid to better treat people with life-threatening irregular heartbeats who’ve exhausted other options. While it’s highly experimental, surprising early research suggests it may reprogram misfiring heart cells to control heartbeats more like younger, healthier cells do. “It may actually rejuvenate sick tissue, and that’s pretty exciting,” said Dr. Stacey Rentschler of Washington University in St. Louis.

Center for Cardiovascular Research Spotlight: Diwan Lab

Center for Cardiovascular Research Spotlight: Diwan Lab
The Diwan Lab, in the Center for Cardiovascular Research, is dedicated to the study of lysosomes, and seeks to understand how these cell parts can be targeted by therapies to treat and prevent cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and more. Lysosomes are organelles, parts within cells that serve several biological functions. The Diwan Lab has […]

Small proteins in heart play big role (Links to an external site)

Small proteins in heart play big role
Jonathan Silva, the Dennis & Barbara Kessler Career Development Associate Professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, and Jeanne Nerbonne, Alumni Endowed Professor of Molecular Biology & Pharmacology in Medicine and Developmental Biology at the School of Medicine, and their labs found distinct effects of novel proteins, known as intracellular fibroblast growth factors (iFGF), on the regulation of the kinetics of cardiac sodium channel gating. Their results were published in the Journal of General Physiology March 21.