Immune therapies for heart disease aim of international research network (Links to an external site)
When a patient arrives in the emergency room with symptoms of a heart attack, doctors’ first priority is to restore blood flow to the heart muscle. Over the past few decades, therapeutic advances aimed at getting blood flowing and reducing strain on the heart have improved patients’ chances of surviving heart attacks to more than 90% from 50%.
Winter 2021 WashU Alumni Newsletter (pdf) (Links to an external site)
Discoveries & Growth in Center for Cardiovascular Research – A multi-year planned progression and expansion of cardiovascular research within the Cardiovascular Division is paying multiple dividends in terms of nationally recognized discoveries in a broad swathof research areas. “The Center for Cardiovascular Research has been at Washington Universityfor 25 years,” says CCR director Jeanne Nerbonne, […]
Leadership Announcement – DOM Vice Chair for Health Equity (Links to an external site)
It is my pleasure to announce that Angela L. Brown, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine has been appointed as Vice Chair for Health Equity for the Department of Medicine. In this new role, Dr. Brown will lead our diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism activities.
Maddox selected as American College of Cardiology trustee (Links to an external site)
Thomas M. Maddox, MD, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been selected to serve as a trustee of the American College of Cardiology, an international professional society for cardiovascular care providers. He will serve a three-year term on the board of trustees beginning in April.
Summer 2020 WashU Alumni Newsletter (pdf) (Links to an external site)
COVID Response Flexibility, Innovation & Best Practices Highlight Division Response – Even before the first confirmed COVID-19 case was identified in St Louis, teams of hospital and university personnel converged into emergency task forces to re-imagine how patient care would be delivered in the face of a rapidly spreading infectious disease. In the Cardiovascular Division, […]
$10 million in grants aimed at preventing organ rejection after transplantation (Links to an external site)
Transplant surgeons and researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received two grants totaling $10 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how immune cells contribute to organ rejection, with the aim of improving the viability of organs after transplant.
Immune cells play surprising role in heart, mouse study suggests (Links to an external site)
New research in mice suggests that certain immune cells may help guide fetal development of the heart and play a role in how the adult heart beats, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.