New $2M grant to look for cures for inherited heart diseases
Inherited heart diseases are a significant cause of death and morbidity with limited options of treatment largely due to the poor understanding of the underlying mechanisms behind impaired heart muscle contractility. Biology Research Assistant Professor Weikang Ma and Professor Tom Irving have just received a $2M grant for 5 years from the National Institutes of Health to study how these diseases affect the molecular machinery that powers contraction in heart muscle. Understanding these effects can provide important guidance towards treating the root causes of these diseases using more targeted approaches then with current therapies that mainly focus on alleviating symptoms
MuscleX Lab 