Medical Student Research Fellowship for Summer 2006

Mentor: Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
Department: Cardiology (Internal Medicine)
Room number: NB11.200
Mail Code: 8573
Phone number: 8-1400
E-mail: joseph.hill@utsouthwestern.edu
Project title: Mechanisms of Pathological Cardiac Remodeling

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Project Type (patient-based research, animal-based research, or basic research; this characterization is only to permit a general classification for grouping similar types of projects)

animal-based and basic research

Brief Description of Project:

We are presently investigating a number of aspects of the pathological remodeling response of the stressed heart. These projects are divided among 4 broad categories:
" molecular regulators of pathological cardiac growth (hypertrophy)
" cardiac autophagy
" electrophysiological remodeling in heart failure
" cardiac circadian rhythms

Previous Research Activities or Publications with Medical Students:

Extensive

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