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PHILADELPHIA—A $25 million gift from an anonymous donor to Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will establish the Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ENDD), accelerating collaborative research in genetic therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders. This gift will bolster […]

On January 1st 2021 we officially kicked off the Leducq Cytoskeletal Network (LCN).  This Trans-Atlantic Network of Excellence brings together 7 different labs from the U.S. and Europe all working to better understanding how the cytoskeleton contributes to normal and […]

We’re thrilled to have entered into a sponsored research agreement with Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the leading experts on antisense technology.  The partnership will be between Ionis and the Prosser and Davidson labs at Penn and CHOP, respectively, and is focused on […]

Julie Heffler’s work on how a balance of cytoskeletal forces maintains nuclear integrity in the cardiomyocyte earned cover honors for the Jan 2020 issue of Circulation Research.  Congrats Julie, well deserved!

Congrats Matt – this work involved many overnight sessions conducting mechanical measurements on myocardial tissue preparations from transplant patients – when the heart often comes in around 2AM! But after all if it’s not hard, it’s probably not worth doing […]

An excellent, concise highlight in Nature Reviews Cardiology: https://rdcu.be/18Sv A longer piece by Medical News Today: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322192.php

Christina’s paper on microtubules in human heart failure was published online in Nature Medicine.  We found that suppressing stable microtubules can boost contractile function of heart cells from patients with heart failure – check it out: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0046-2