Zhen Yan works on the fundamental signaling processes in muscle, in order to determine its potential to maintain health and prevent muscle from being a contributor to disease. After discovering that endurance exercise improves mitochondrial function by clearing damaged or … Read More
Dr. Ava Daneva published a first-author paper in PNAS in April 2021. This manuscript discovers a vital role for endothelial caveolin-1:TRPV4 channel signaling in maintaining a low resting pulmonary arterial pressure. Dr. Daneva also showed that disrupted caveolin-1:TRPV4 channel signaling … Read More
Dr. Yen-Lin Chen, a postdoctoral fellow in the Sonkusare lab, has been awarded a competitive two-year postdoctoral fellowship by the American Heart Association for his work on smooth muscle cell TRPV4 ion channels in blood pressure regulation. Yen-Lin`s research focuses … Read More
The New York Times features an article quoting Dr. Zhen Yan about the potential benefits of exercise while pregnant. Dr. Yan headed a study, Exercise during pregnancy mitigates negative effects of parental obesity on metabolic function in adult mouse offspring. … Read More
Scientists at the School of Medicine have identified a potential way to head off heart attacks and strokes by strengthening the fibrous caps overlying atherosclerotic plaques that naturally accumulate inside our arteries. These fatty lesions can rupture, triggering blood clots … Read More
New research out of the University of Virginia suggests that exercise during pregnancy may significantly reduce expectant mothers` children`s chances of developing diabetes and other metabolic diseases later in life. Zhen Yan said this research was inspired by the vast … Read More
Dr. Zhen Yan and his colleagues have a new paper for the Journal of Applied Physiology, “Exercise during pregnancy mitigates negative effects of parental obesity on metabolic function in adult mouse offspring.” Obesity during pregnancy increases the risk that the … Read More
Wolf lab has a new article published in Circulation Research titled, Loss of Endogenously Cycling Adult Cardiomyocytes Worsens Myocardial Function. Congratulations on the new publication! Click here to read the full article at https://www.ahajournals.org
Dr. Matthew Wolf was named a 2020 Paul Dudley White International Scholar for having the highest rated U.S. abstract for the 2020 AHA Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions. The abstract title is: A Transgenic Approach Using Dual Orthologous DNA Recombinases … Read More
Tess Gibson, a senior undergraduate in the Wolf lab, was awarded first place at the 36th Annual Richard D. Katz Undergraduate Research Symposium at UVA for her research project, Developing a Novel Cell Cycle Reporter for Transcriptomics. Congratulations!
