Participants and Alumni

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Nephrology
University of Alabama at Birmingham

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Endothelin-1 and Dendritic Cells in Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

Associate Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Cardiology
University of Massachusetts

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Subclinical cardiovascular biomarkers in pregnancy with and without hypertension

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas at Tyler

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Transcriptomics investigation of murine bicuspid aortic valves - effect of age and sex

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Role of Cytosolic Phospholipase A2 in vascular wall lipid accumulation in atherosclerosis

Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology
University of California, Los Angeles

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Transcriptomic analysis of non-cardiomyocytes in the border zone of the infarcted myocardium

Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Determining sex dimorphisms in valvular myofibroblasts using spatial transcriptomics

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Iowa

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | New approaches to mitigate radiation therapy-induced Brain-Blood Barrier disruption

Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Washington

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Incidence and Outcomes of Late-Onset Right Ventricular Failure in Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Device

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Developmental isoform FOG2S regulates cardiac angiogenic gene expression

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Mechano-genetic Investigation of Great Vessel Formation

Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology & Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Inflammatory Sequelae in Kawasaki Disease Children using Electronic Medical Records

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Infectious Diseases
Vanderbilt University

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | B Cell Subsets and Atherosclerosis in Persons with HIV

Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
University of Mississippi Medical Center

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Preeclampsia and Offspring Neurovascular and Cognitive Dysfunction

Senior Scientist
Dept. of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Stanford University

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Elucidating the Role of NOTCH1 in Impaired Cardiogenesis in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Using Vascularized Cardiac Tissue Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Houston Methodist Research Institute & the Weill Cornell Medical College

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Regulation of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 by Polycystin-1 in cardiomyocytes

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Regulation of cardiac ryanodine receptors by a novel phosphorylation mechanism

Assistant Professor
Cardiovascular Research Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Expression of calcium cycling proteins in fibroblast-supplemented engineered cardiac tissues

Associate Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Medical University of South Carolina

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Chronic inflammation induced mediators of cardiac remodeling

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Div. of General Internal Medicine
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Racial differences and the mediating effect of psychosocial stressors on antiplatelet, statin, and antihypertensive utilization and abnormal ankle-brachial index

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | De novo ECM from Hyperglycemic Fibroblasts Drives Cardiomyocyte Insulin Resistance

Assistant Clinical Professor
Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
University of California, San Diego

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Improving diagnosis and management of structural congenital heart disease through genomic sequencing

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Bioengineering, Dept. of Radiology
University of California, San Diego

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Imaging-based prediction of surgical level of thromboembolic material in patients with CTEPH

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
East Tennessee State University

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | The role of ceveolin-1 in the post-menopausal ischemic heart

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Rheumatology, Allergy, & Immunology
University of California, San Diego

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Mechanism of hypoxia induced exacerbation of cerebral cavernous malformations

Assistant Professor
Hypertension and Vascular Research Division
Henry Ford Hospital

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Role of cytokines and chemokines in kidney macrophage infiltration and pro-renin release in diabetes

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Mechanism of cholesterol regulation by the ER protein degradation pathway

Program Director
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Investigating the effects of beverages containing high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) on gut microbiome in healthy adults

Assistant Professor
College of Pharmacy
University of Illinois at Chicago

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | P21-activated kinase as a novel regulator for adiposity and cardiac function in females

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery, Department of Medicine
Stanford University

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Toward developing automated risk stratification tools for peripheral artery disease

Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego

FOCUS Small Research Project Title | Pulmonary arterial adventitial fibroblast substrate-varying phenotype