Translational Cardiovascular Research Center - Seminars

Speaker: Wolfram H. Zimmermann, MD, Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Medical Center, Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany
Seminar Title: Tissue Engineered Heart Repair from Bench to Bed
Location: Health Sciences Education Building, room C403 — 435 N. 5^th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 — or join virtually via Zoom

Speaker: Joan Heller Brown, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California – San Diego School of Medicine
Seminar Title: TBD
Location: Health Sciences Education Building, room C403 — 435 N. 5^th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 — or join virtually via Zoom

Speaker: Mirko Völkers, MD, Research Group Leader, Department of Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology, Heidelberg University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany
Seminar Title: TBD
Location: Health Sciences Education Building, room C403 — 435 N. 5^th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004 — or join virtually via Zoom

Speaker: Farah Sheikh, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of California – San Diego School of Medicine
Seminar Title: Decoding the Cell-Cell Junction to Uncover New Pathways and Therapies for Arrhythmogenic Heart Disease

Speaker: Richard Kitsis, MD, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, the Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Chair in Cardiovascular Disease, and Director, Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Seminar Title: Mitochondrial ATP Synthase in Cardiac Biology and Disease

Speaker: Brett Colson, PhD, Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson
Seminar Title: Dynamic Probes of Muscle in Cardiomyopathy and Therapy

Speaker: Peter Reaven, MD, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
Seminar Title: Post-Translational Modifications of Apolipoprotein C-I, C-II and C-III and Their Links with Lipid Metabolism and Vascular Disease: New Paradigms and New Opportunities

Speaker: Hongyu Qiu, MD, PhD​​​​​​​, Professor, Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine Institute of Biomedical Science, Georgia State University
Seminar Title: New Insights and Potential Therapeutic Targets of Hypertension and Its Associated Cardiomyopathies

Speaker: Tim O’Connell, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota
Seminar Title: Ffar4 regulates cardiac oxylipin balance to resolve inflammation and attenuate HFpEF

Speaker: Donald Bers, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis
Seminar Title: CaMKII-dependent Arrhythmogenesis In Diabetic Hyperglycemia and Heart Failure
 

Speaker: Jared Churko, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
Seminar Title: Linking Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy Transcriptomic Signatures with Disease Pathology
 

Speaker: Steven Goldman, PhD, Professor, Division of Cardiology, and C. Leonard Pfeiffer Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, UArizona Sarver Heart Center
Seminar Title: Development of a Bioengineered Patch to Treat Heart Failure

Speaker: Taben Hale, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences
Seminar Title: Forget Me Not: Changing Fibroblast Memory to Protect Against Cardiac Fibrosis”

Speaker: Nancy Sweitzer, MD, PhD, Director of the Sarver Heart Center, Professor of Medicine, Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of Circulation: Heart Failure
Seminar Title: Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns: Moving Forward in Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)