Current T32 Trainees

• Christopher Audu, MD, PhD, CVRTI/Surgery, Examining the Role of Sirtuin-1,3 and 6 on Diabetic Macrophage – Endothelial Cell Cross Talk, Mentor: Anthony Donato, PhD
• Jake Bergquist, PhD, CVRTI, Computational Modeling of Atypical Left Atrial Flutter to Improve Clinical Outcomes, Mentor: Ravi Ranjan, MD, PhD
• Marlayna Despres, MD, Pediatrics, Interactions Between Fetal Cerebrovascular Autoregulation, Neonatal Neurobehavior, and Genetic Variants in Critical Congenital Heart Disease, Mentors: Martin Tristani-Firouzi, MD and Whitnee Hogan, MD
• Sydney Hartsell, MD, MPH, DOIM/Nephrology, The Role of Hypertension in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) in Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Kidney Disease, Mentors: Srinivasan Beddhu, MD (primary mentor), Tom H. Greene, PhD, Jincheng Shen, PhD
• Vincent Huang, MD, CVRTI, Characterizing Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Proliferation in LVAD Unloaded Hearts of Pediatric and Adult Patients Suffering from Heart Failure, Mentor: Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD
• Ian Nickel, MD, Surgery/Cardiothoracic Surgery, Novel approaches for heart preservation, Mentor: Craig Selzman, MD
• Sara Wong, PhD, Biochemistry, Regulation of mitochondrial health by mitochondrial derived compartments in cardiomyocytes, Mentor: Adam Hughes