2:45
Seminar Refreshments

3:00 - 3:15
Welcome and Introduction
H. Lee Sweeney, Ph.D.
William Maul Measey Professor and Chair of Physiology
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

3:15 - 3:40
Probing the Sarcoglycan Complex Role as a Mechano-Sensor
Catherine Moorwood, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Dr. Elisabeth R. Barton, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

3:40 - 4:30
Modulating Cardiac Stress Remodeling by cGMP/PKG/PDE Signaling
David A. Kass, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Abraham & Virginia Weiss Professor of Cardiology
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

4:30 - 4:40
Break-Seminar Refreshments

4:40 - 5:30
PDE5A Inhibition to Improve Functional Muscle Ischemia in Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy
Ronald Victor, M.D.
Director, Cedars-Sinai Center for Hypertension
Associate Director, Clinical Research, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Burns and Allen Chair in Cardiology Research
Cedars Sinai

Pennsylvania Muscle Institute: http://www.med.upenn.edu/pmi/
Wellstone MDCRC: www.med.upenn.edu/wellstone