Each Mentor in this group has strong interests in the structure, function and regulation of proteins involved in cardiac contraction. Levels of focus span from atomic modeling to transcriptional regulation to intact heart function. These investigators have extensive interactions - they meet informally on a daily basis and formally in weekly group meetings and journal clubs; they jointly mentor students and have multiple co-authored papers and grants. Recognizing that the proteins and processes involved in development and function of the heart are often at the center of dysfunction in settings of disease and injury, this group interacts with clinical members of the Sarver Heart Center and with members of the other focus groups.
Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease – Molecules to Treatments
Mentors in this Group
 Assistant Professor, Medicine Assistant Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences |
 Professor, Medical Imaging Professor, Biomedical Engineering Co-Chair, Deans Research Council Member of the Graduate Faculty |
 Professor, BIO5 Institute Professor, Medicine Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology Professor, Physiological Sciences - GIDP Professor, Physiology The Merlin K. DuVal, MD Endowed Chair for Leadership & Innovation in the Arizona Health Sciences |
 Professor, Division of Cardiology C. Leonard Pfeiffer Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center |
 Associate Professor, Basic Medical Sciences Associate Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences |
 Professor, Medicine Chair, Sarver Heart Center Resuscitation Research Group The Gordon A. Ewy, MD, Distinguished Endowed Chair for Cardiovascular Medicine, UA College of Medicine |
 Associate Director Associate Professor, Applied BioSciences - GIDP Associate Professor, BIO5 Institute Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Associate Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences Associate Professor, Immunobiology Associate Professor, Medicine Co-Director, Clinical Translational Sciences Graduate Program Member of the Graduate Faculty |
 Professor, Medicine Chief, Division of Endocrinology Director, UAHS Center for Disparities in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism |
 Director, Asthma / Airway Disease Research Center The Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics Professor, BIO5 Institute Professor, Genetics - GIDP Professor, Pediatrics Regents Professor |
 Professor, Surgery Director of the Institute for Cellular Transplantation Professor, Department of Medical Imaging Faculty, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Interdisciplinary Program Faculty, Department of Radiology Graduate Interdisciplinary Program Faculty, Physiology Graduate Interdisciplinary Program |
 Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences Chair, Graduate Research Degrees in Nutritional Sciences Associate Professor, Steele Children's Research Center, Department of Pediatrics |
 Director, University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center Professor, Medicine, College of Medicine – Tucson Co-director, UArizona Health Sciences Graduate Program in Clinical Translational Sciences |
 Professor, Medicine Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Steven M. Gootter Endowed Chair for the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death Member, UA Sarver Heart Center and BIO5 Institute |
 Director, Molecular Genomics - Asthma / Airway Disease Research Center Director, Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases (ABCD) Member of the Graduate Faculty Professor, BIO5 Institute Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine Professor, Genetics - GIDP |
 Scientific Director, Pulmonary and Endothelial Research Core, UA Health Sciences Associate Professor (Tenure Eligible), General Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, UA College of Medicine – Phoenix Associate Professor, Medicine (Non-Tenure Eligible), General Faculty, Department of Medicine, UA College of Medicine – Tucson Associate Professor, Physiological Sciences - GIDP (Non-Tenure Eligible), UA Health Sciences Member, Southwest Environmental Health Science Center, UA College of Pharmacy |