Dhanendra Tomar, PhD, MSc, assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine, was recently awarded the Transformational Project Award by the American Heart Association (AHA). This program supports highly innovative, high-impact projects that build on work in progress that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research.
Tomar has received funding support for his transformational project to explore the regulatory mechanisms for mitochondrial calcium sensor MICU1's protein turnover and how it determines the cardiomyocyte’s fate in response to myocardial infarction injury. The research holds the potential to uncover new insights into the mechanisms of myocardial infarction and pave the way for breakthroughs in treatment and prevention strategies for myocardial infarction-associated heart failure.
The AHA is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. A shared focus on cardiovascular health unites its more than 35 million volunteers and supporters as well as its more than 2,900 employees. The AHA has invested more than $5 billion in research, making us the largest not-for-profit funding source for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease research next to the federal government.