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d 2f Congratulations to Julio Chirinos! d e

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Received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the North American Artery 2026 Meeting
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Julio Chirinos
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d 2d Congratulations to Zoltan Arany! d e

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Gave Helen Caldwell Spell Rare Disease Lecture at Medical University of South Carolina
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Zoltan Arany
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d 48 Congratulations to Kiran Musunuru & Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas! d e

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Named to TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
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Kiran Musunuru
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Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas
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d 31 Congratulations to Andrew Landstrom! d e

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Inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation
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Andrew Landstrom
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d 2b Congratulations to Rajan Jain! d e

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Named Vice President Elect of the American Society of Clinical Investigation
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Rajan Jain
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d 3c Congratulations to Sharlene Day and Rajan Jain! d e

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Elected to the Association of American Physicians
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Sharlene Day
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Rajan Jain
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d 2f Congratulations to Joanna Griffin! d e

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Awarded Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography
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Joanna Griffin, Rodent Cardiovascular Phenotyping Core
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d 28 Congratulations to Ivy Han! d e

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Received the Dr. David B.P. Goodman Award for her first author paper, “Changes in Cardiac Function in Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer”
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Ivy Han
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6f 32 Congratulations to Hamed Tavolinejad! 11 e

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Received an Honorable Mention for the JACC 2025 William W. Parmley Young Author Achievement Award
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Hamed Tavolinejad, Postdoctoral Fellow
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d 2e Congratulations to Jennifer Yang! d e

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Awarded Howard C. Herrmann Student Research Fellowship
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Jennifer Yang, Undergraduate Student Researcher
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d 3a Congratulations to Mark Kahn and Maxim Itkin! d e

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Selected to be part of the ARPA-H GLIDE Program with the goal of preventing lymphothrombosis after interventional treatment of lymphatic disorders
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Mark Kahn, MD
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Maxim Itkin, MD
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d 2a Congratulations to Muen Teng! d e

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Recipient of the Herrmann-Penn Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship Award Co-Mentors: Matthew Jolley and Michael Ibrahim
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Muen Teng Undergraduate Student Researcher
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d 2b Congratulations to Rajan Jain! d e

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Appointed Associate Director of the Penn Cardiovascular Institute
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Rajan Jain, MD
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d 49 Congratulations to Krishna Haridhasapavalan and Vasia Barka! d e

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Awarded American Heart Association Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Fellowships (respectively)
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Krishna Haridhasapavalan, PhD
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Vasia Barka, MS
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d 48 Congratulations to Javier Sierra-Pagan and Matthew Barrett! d e

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Matched at the University of Pennsylvania into the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
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Javier Sierra-Pagan, MD, PhD
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Matthew Barrett, MD
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d 23 CVI Holiday Party 2025 d e

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Happy Holidays!
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d 4a Congratulations to Robert Schwab, Carl June, and Avery Posey! d e

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Received a patent for “Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Regulatory Cells for the Treatment of Atherosclerosis”
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Robert Schwab, MD
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Carl June, MD
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Avery Posey, PhD
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d 2f Congratulations to Benjamin Smood! d e

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Recipient of the CVSA Early Career Investigator Abstract Award at AHA Scientific Sessions 2025 #AHA25
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Benjamin Smood, MD
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d 2f CVI Welcomes Jeffery D. Molkentin! d e

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Jeffery Molkentin- Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, University of Cincinnati- presented "The Latest from the Molkentin Lab" on October 22, 2025.
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(from left to right) Ken Margulies, Jeffery Molkentin, Dan Kelly, Sharlene Day, Zoltan Arany
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d 39 Congratulations to Bonnie Ky and Jinbo Chen! d e

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Received an NHLBI R01 grant entitled "Cardiovascular Risk Prediction and Reduction in Men with Prostate Cancer"
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Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE
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Jinbo Chen, PhD
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d 4e Congratulations to Thomas Cappola, Scott Damrauer, and Xiao Wang! d e

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Received an NHLBI R01 grant renewal entitled "MTSS1 in myocardial disease"
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Thomas Cappola, MD, ScM
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Scott Damrauer, MD
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Xiao Wang, PhD
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d 58 Congratulations to Liming Pei, Katalin Susztak, Rajan Jain, and colleagues! d e

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Received an NIH grant entitled "Whole Person Reference Physiome Research and Coordination Center"
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Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD
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Liming Pei, PhD
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Rajan Jain, MD
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d 2a Congratulations to Mark Kahn! d e

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Received an NHLBI R01 grant entitled "Mechanical regulation of cardiac growth and remodeling by VCAN-GPR126 signaling"
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Mark Kahn, MD
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d 2e Congratulations to Eliot Peyster! d e

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Received an R01 grant entitled "Personalized Risk Prediction and Mechanistic Profiling of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy"
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Eliot Peyster, MD, MSc
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d 2d Congratulations to Jae Woo Jung! d e

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Received a K99 grant entitled "Deciphering One Carbon Metabolism Defect in Heart Failure"
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Jae Woo Jung, PhD
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d 2d Congratulations to Daniel Kelly! d e

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Recipient of the AHA Distinguished Scientist Award!
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Daniel Kelly, MD
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d 2a Congratulations to Deb Eaton! d e

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Recipient of a K99 Grant entitled “Impact of obesity and diabetes on coronary microvascular defects in HFpEF”
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Deb Eaton, PhD
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d 2b Congratulations to Noor Momin! d e

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Recipient of the AHA Transformational Project Award!
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Noor Momin
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d 49 Congratulations to J. William Gaynor and his Research Team! d e

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Recipient of the 2025 Single Ventricle Research Fund Award!
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J. William Gaynor
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Lauren Anton
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Sarah Morton
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d 3f Congratulations to Wensi Wu and her Research Team! d e

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Recipient of the 2025 Single Ventricle Research Fund Award!
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Wensi Wu
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Matthew A. Jolley
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Alison Pouch
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d 2a Congratulations Sharlene Day! d e

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Promoted to Full Professor!
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Sharlene Day
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d 2a Congratulations to Alan Tang! d e

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Recipient of the Edmunds Fellowship Award
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d 2d Congratulations to Zoltan Arany! d e

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Appointed to Chair of the Department of Physiology
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d 2e Congratulations Jonathan Edwards! d e

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Elected to the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Scientific Committee
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Jonathan Edwards
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d 2a Congratulations Sharlene Day! d e

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Elected, Chair of the Board of Directors for the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation
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Sharlene Day
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d 2f Congratulations to Kiran Musunuru! d e

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Received the Barry J. Gertz Professorship for Translational Research
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Kiran Musunuru
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d 2b Congratulations to Rajan Jain! d e

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Received the William Wikoff Smith Professorship in Cardiovascular Research
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Rajan Jain
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Named on the 2025 STATUS list by STAT News for discovering a rare mutation in the ANGPTL3 gene that can reduce cholesterol and triglycerides
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Kiran Musunuru
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d 2b Congratulations to Liming Pei! d e

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Annual Robert J. Levy Lecturer in Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Basic Science
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Liming Pei
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Selected to Receive NHLBI Outstanding Investigator Award (R35) for: Locking and Unlocking Cardiac Maturation
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Dan Kelly
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d 37 Congratulations to Alan Tang & Joe Planer! d e

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2025 American Society for Clinical Investigation Emerging-Generation Awardees
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Alan Tang
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Joe Planer
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d 2b Congratulations to Bonnie Ky! d e

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American College of Cardiology Distinguished Scientist Award - 2025 Translational Domain
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Bonnie Ky
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New MEAM Faculty Member Wensi Wu Brings Innovation to Cardiovascular Research
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df 2e Congratulations to Eliot Peyster! 11 e

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2024 FSR Sarcoidosis Research Cardiac Grant Awardee
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Eliot Peyster
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d 2d Congratulations to Sharlene Day! d e

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Received the Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award
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Sharlene Day
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d 31 Congratulations to Jonathan Edwards! d e

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Received WW Smith Charitable Trust grant entitled “Repowering the Failing Right Ventricle Cardiomyocyte”
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Jonathan Edwards
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d 2f Congratulations to Chris Petucci! d e

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Winner of the 2024 Penn Core Director Award
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Chris Petucci
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d 28 Congratulations Zolt Arany! d e

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Elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
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Zolt Arany
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d 28 Congratulations Zolt Arany! d e

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2024 Recipient of the Stanley N. Cohen Biomedical Research Award
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Zolt Arany
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d 4b Congratulations to Kiran Musunuru and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas! d e

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Received an U01 from NIH entitled “Personalized prime editing as a platform for hepatic inborn errors of metabolism”
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Kiran Musunuru
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Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas
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d 2d Congratulations Cory Tschabrunn! d e

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Received an R41 from NIH entitled “Proactive Dual-Irrigation Cardiac Chest Tube to Maintain Postoperative Patency”
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Cory Tschabrunn
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d 2d Congratulations Cory Tschabrunn! d e

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Received an R56 from NIH entitled “Determining the Mechanisms of Radiation Biomodulation of the Ventricular Tachycardia Arrhythmogenic Substate”
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Cory Tschabrunn
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d 2f Congratulations Kenneth Margulies! d e

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President Elect of the Heart Failure Society of America (9/2024-9/2025); to be President (9/2025-9/2026)
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d 4d Penn CVI Congratulates Drs. Muzykantov, Margulies, and Weismann! d e

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Received an R01 from NHLBI entitled “Cardiac Delivery of RNA to treat Contractile Disorder”
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Vladimir Muzykantov
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Drew Weissman
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d 3e Penn CVI Congratulates Liming Pei and Wenli Yang! d e

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Received a DoD MPI grant entitled “Elucidation of the Cardiomyopathy of the Mitochondrial Disorder Friedreich's Ataxia”
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Wenli Yang
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d 26 Congratulations Siqi Gao! d e

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Awarded a K99 grant entitled “Endothelial regulation of the blood-placental barrier”
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d 2a Congratulations Sharlene Day! d e

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Appointed Chair of the Steering Committee for the SONATA-HCM Randomized Multicenter Clinical Trial
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d 49 Penn CVI Congratulates Mark Kahn, Zolt Arany and Colleagues! d e

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Awarded a Leducq Foundation Network of Excellence Grant “The Placenta in Maternal and Fetal Cardiovascular Health and Disease”
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Zolt Arany
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d 50 Penn CVI Congratulates Raj Jain, Eric Joyce and Melike Lakadamyali! d e

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Awarded an R01 entitled “Single-cell analysis of 3D genome organization in senescent cells”
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Melike Lakadamyali
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d 2e Penn CVI Congratulates Xiao Wang! d e

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Awarded her first R01 entitled “Corrective Editing to Treat Phenylketonuria”
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