Department News
The University of Pennsylvania was one of three research centers across the country picked by the America Heart Association to receive a total of $6 million in grants to fund studies focusing on finding ways to generate new cardiac muscle cells. Penn’s study will be led by Dr. Jonathan Epstein, chairman of the department of cell and developmental biology and scientific director of Penn’s cardiovascular institute. The American Heart Association grants were awarded with support from the Jon Holden DeHaan Foundation. For more information, please click here.
Dr. John Weisel, professor of the department of cell and developmental biology, and collaborating researchers show that protein unfolding is key for understanding blood clot mechanics as reported in Science. For the Penn News Release highlighting their findings, please click here.
