And as part of this @American_Heart SFRN on Valvular Heart Disease - we're hiring postdocs! Please apply here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine@pittdeptofmed.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congrats to Dr. Cynthia St. Hilaire, who will lead the new AHA SFRN Center for Aortic Valve Disease Prediction & Integrated Research. The center will combine engineering, biology, & clinical insight to shift aortic stenosis care from reactive surgery to proactive prevention. 🔗 bit.ly/4tY2W1p

AHA Scientific Sessions 2026 #AHA26 will take place November 6-9, 2026, in Chicago 💨 Want to contribute to next year’s program? Submit your session ideas for #AHA26 by tomorrow January 6 Would especially love to hear from the vascular biology community Link here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Congratulations to my friend @jboerckel.bsky.social for being awarded the Fuller Albright Award! #asbmr2025

That happy feeling when someone features a graphic you made in their talk 😇 #ASBMR2025 #vascularcalcification #ACDCmedical #MAC

Trump’s proposed $23 billion in cuts to NIH & NSF could cost the U.S. economy at least $10 billion a year, according to new research. Public science funding drives innovation, productivity, and long-term growth. Slashing it isn’t saving money; it’s losing our future. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually

Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

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On Tuesday I received the NOA (notice of award) for an #NHLBI R01 grant submitted back in Feb 2024 and marked pending after the Oct 2024 Council meeting. Let me tell you the story of the 15 years it took to get here:

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Thrilled to share our study that found Non-Canonical TERT Activity Initiates Osteogenesis in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease www-ahajournals-org.pitt.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.... #MedSky #VascularSky

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

New #DiscoverCircRes podcast episode! bit.ly/41CL29G I chat with Drs. Jesse Rowley & Shancy Jacob about Mitofusin-2 Regulates Platelet Mitochondria and Function – one of the most downloaded papers of 2024. bit.ly/4aHT8Qo @ahajournals.bsky.social @universityofutah.bsky.social #medsky #cardiosky

Let's go girls! #H2P @pitt.bsky.social #volleyball

Who designed this @starbuckscoffee.bsky.social New Hampshire mug and thought Mount Monadnock was the NH mountain that should be highlighted?! #NewHamphire #MountWashington #Agiocochook #coffee

Bezos is winning because I spent $11.62 on stale bread 🤣

New @ahajournals.bsky.social CircRes podcast #DiscoverCircRes is out! bit.ly/3B4utIJ I highlight Nov papers & chat w/ Drs. Jil Tardiff & Melissa Lynn about their study R92L cardiac troponin T Alters the cardiac troponin C-cardiac troponin I Interface Disrupting PKA-Mediated Relaxation bit.ly/3C0KWhj

Discover CircRes November 2024 | AHA Podcasts

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Sergiu P. Pasca@sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 2y ago

Research funded by NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023 [a total of $92.9 billion] www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

#AHA24 #CardioSky #MedSky AHA @americanheart.bsky.social ACC @accintouch.bsky.social AHA Sciences @ahascience.bsky.social AHA Journals @ahajournals.bsky.social JAMA @jamacurrent.bsky.social ASPC @aspcardio.bsky.social Am J Prev Card @ajpcardio.bsky.social J Card Fail @jcardfail.bsky.social

Thanks for the shout-out Raj Malhotra! Amazing work on uncovering new genetic drives of cardiovascular calcification. Thanks ATVB @ahajournals.bsky.social for choosing to highlight #cardiovascularcalcification in your session at #AHA24 #cardiomed #vascularbiology

Always wonderful to run into my amazing mentor, sponsor, and colleague and friend Elena Aikawa #AHA24 #womeninscience #cardiovascularbiology #cardiomed

Certainly the best thing at #AHA24

AHA Science@ahascience.bsky.social · 2y ago

🐶🐶 Puppies are back by popular demand in the Science and Technology Hall. Stop by for a snuggle and feel the love. #AHA24.

With all this talk about cutting the NIH, might I remind everyone that the entire NIH budget is less than 5% of the DoD budget. The NIH is so efficient that they already rely upon volunteer labor to do grant review. And they are not even allowed to buy grant reviewers coffee.

Pics from the recent @navbo.bsky.social meeting at Asilomar. My postdocs Parya and Rolando had the opportunity to show off their excellent work (and win a travel award, too) and we took a side trip to the Monterey Aquarium.

St. Hilaire Lab takes on an escape room. We tried. We failed. But we had fun!

New CircRes podcast #DiscoverCircRes bit.ly/403VPa7 where I chat with Drs. Margaret A. Schwartz and Dushani Ranasinghe about their article Altered SMC Histone Acetylome by the SPHK2/S1P Axis Promotes Pulmonary Hypertension bit.ly/3tldPAy @IUMedSchool

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Anne Carpenter@drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 3y ago

Take home messages: 1) High-tier journals preferentially accept papers by white men. They should stop! It's wrong (even if unintentional) & also those papers tend to underperform. 2) The rest of us, stop relying on journal names - use article-level metrics if at all & recall they're also biased

I saw so many viral posts about Katalin Karikó from men and while it's fine (and she deserves all the praise), I can't help but think men shouldn't wait to support women colleagues until after women don't need their support anymore. You can actually make a difference elsewhere. Perhaps for every 5

🫀🎙️👩🏻‍🔬 New Circulation Research podcast #DiscoverCircRes bit.ly/3Ptz1vn is out! I chatted with Dr. Manuel Mayer about their manuscript A Proteomic Atlas of Atherosclerosis: The Contribution of Proteoglycans to Sex Differences, Plaque Phenotypes and Outcomes bit.ly/3P3T17A Check it out!

Discover CircRes: September 2023 Discover CircRes

This month on Episode 52 of Discover CircRes, host Cynthia St. Hilaire highlights three original research articles featured in the September 1 and September 15th issues of Circulation Resear...

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Not surprised. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Female Surgeons Get Better Results Than Male Counterparts

Patients treated by female surgeons were less likely to experience adverse complications, studies find

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New episode of Discover CircRes is out https://bit.ly/3YCUx52! I chat with Dr. Eric Small and Xiaoyi Liu about their study, "the multi-functional tumor suppressor protein P53 also limits fibroblast proliferation & cardiac fibrosis in left ventricle pressure overload."

As someone who could not get through Little Women, this was lovely! Relatable and complicated characters and family dynamics arching through 3 generations.