Cardiovascular Grand Rounds: Dr. Chaitanya Madamanchi, Myocardial Strain Imaging
Speaker: Chaitanya Madamanchi, MD, UNC Cardiology FellowTopic: Myocardial Strain Imaging
Speaker: Chaitanya Madamanchi, MD, UNC Cardiology FellowTopic: Myocardial Strain Imaging
Consumption of dietary fat has been the focus of debate for more than 50 years. Ancel Keys’ diet-heart hypothesis changed the way Americans eat and as a result has left us with significant unintended consequences. Dr. Klett will review the history of the diet-heart hypothesis, the recently discovered unpublished data refuting the diet-heart hypothesis, and … Read more
Speaker: Kristy Red-Horse, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford UniversityTopic: Coronary Artery Development: Transcriptional Regulation of Blood Flow Guided Behaviors
Immune-related adverse events are an unintentional side effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors used for cancer immunotherapy. Immune checkpoint inhibitors upregulate the immune system to prevent tumor evasion and promote destruction of tumor cells. These immune checkpoint inhibitors are effective as noted by the expanding number of FDA-approved drugs in this class and number of indications. … Read more
Speaker: Nenad Bursac, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke UniversityTopic: Engineering Excitable Tissues for Experimental Studies and Regenerative Therapy Presentation Preview: In this talk, I will present our recent progress on engineering of human excitable tissues using primary, stem cell-derived, and genetically engineered cell sources. I will first describe scalable methodology for engineering of functional … Read more
Rescheduled from January 4 -- In this lecture, Drs. Sartor and Barnes will summarize an evidence-based approach to the management of post-operative Crohn’s disease, and describe the future landscape based on novel molecular and microbial predictors of risk of recurrence. This topic is clinically important because the majority of patients with Crohn’s disease eventually undergo … Read more
Speaker: Didier Stainier, PhD, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Heart & Lung Research in Bad Nauheim, GermanyTopic: Cardiovascular development and regeneration in zebrafish