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 the efforts of an interdisciplinary group of clinicians and scientists at Penn and CHOP,
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 pathological functions of heart muscle cells,
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 testing a new approach to treat STXBP1 disorders using antisense oligonucleotides.
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:
A longer piece by Medical News Today:
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
Ben was honored with the Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award from the American Heart Association. Read all about it here: https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2017/july/cardiology-researcher-wins-aha-outstanding-early-career-investigator-award
Welcome Alex S., aka Xander/Ax, to the Prosser lab! Read more about Alex and our other lab members under the “People” tab.
Big congrats to Matt C. and Pat R., who were awarded post-doctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health!
Who knew microtubules could be romantic? The HHMI celebrates cool science and heart puns. http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/tugging-cellular-heartstrings
Join us at Biophysics in New Orleans, where Matt Caporizzo, Christina Chen, Julie Heffler, and Pat Robison will all be presenting their work. And eating beignets!