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Jianmin Cui received a nearly $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the molecular
bases for the function of potassium channels vital for the heart, brain, inner ear and other tissues.
Link: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/nih-grant-heart-inner-mechanisms.aspx
D.C. Rao, and Victor Davila-Roman received a four-year, $1.28 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a program titled “PRIDE Summer Institute in
Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology.”
aPril 2015
A new study, led by Patrick Jay, demonstrates that older mouse mothers reduce the risk of heart defects for their
offspring to that of younger mouse mothers through exercise alone. Link: https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/Exer-
cise-for-older-mouse-mothers-lowers-risk-of-heart-defects-in-babies.aspx
may 2015
june 2015
A recent paper, “Cardiac Electrophysiologic Substrate Underlying the ECG Phenotype and Electrogram Abnormalities
in Brugada Syndrome Patients” has been published in the journal Circulation. The paper describes research
conducted by Junjie Zhang, a PhD student in Yoram Rudy's lab. Junjie used ECGI to study the arrhythmic substrate
in the hearts of 25 patients with a hereditary rhythm disorder, called the Brugada syndrome associated with an
increased incidence of sudden death. Additional authors include Yoram Rudy, members Phillip Cuculich, Jennifer
Silva, Daniel Cooper, Mitchell Faddis, alumnus Thomas O'Hara, Frédéric Sacher, Kurt Hoffmayer, Maria Strom,
Mélèze Hocini, Michel Haïssaguerre, and Melvin Scheinman. Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810336
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