Two members of the Sonkusare Lab received awards at this year's NAVBO meeting! Maniselvan Kuppusamy, PhD, (left) won this year's Microcirculatory Society Emerging Leader Award. Fênix Araujo, PhD, (right) received a conference travel award. Congrats to you both!

Last month, Matteo Morello, MD, and Bethany Gholson won the Research Investigator Awards at the 2025 American Society of Echocardiography conference! Congratulations to you both!

Read more: www.cvrc.virginia.edu/ase-2025/

We welcome new member Sumeet Khetarpal,
MD, PhD! Dr. Khetarpal joins us from @mghcvrc.bsky.social, recently received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, and published his first @uvahealth.bsky.social-affiliated paper in @natcardiovascres.nature.com! Read: www.cvrc.virginia.edu/skhetarpal-joins

Fênix Alexandra de Araujo, PhD, a Sonkusare Lab postdoc, studies how mineralocorticoids and ion channels regulate blood pressure. Fênix's research may lead to hypertension treatments. Her lab skills are matched by her baking talent!

@brantisakson.bsky.social Lab postdoc @lukedunaway.bsky.social, PhD, studies the intersection of iron metabolism and cardiovascular disease in anemia and chronic kidney disease. A hiker and boulderer, he will finish hiking all of Shenandoah NP this year.

Inspired by family losses to heart attacks, Sohel Shamsuzzaman, PhD, studies arterial plaques in the Owens Lab. He has identified drugs that help prevent heart attacks and strokes. Sohel also enjoys the outdoors with this dog & family, walking and gardening in particular.

Brooke O'Donnell, PhD, works at the molecular level to understand how Pannexin proteins affect blood pressure, blood flow, and blood vessel dilation. @brookeodonnell.bsky.social is also a hockey player, reader, and the @brantisakson.bsky.social Lab's resident tea evangelist.

CVRC Postdoc Michele Marchetta, MD, is an expert in cardiovascular diseases, seeking to improve patient care by controlling inflammation. He works as a coordinator & sub-investigator for several clinical trials and assists in patient phenotyping research in the Abbate lab.

Obesity affects about 4 in 10 US adults & 1 in 5 children. The Sonkusare Lab's new study in Circulation Research identifies an inflammatory mechanism in obesity that leads to high blood pressure and the therapeutic potential of targeting it. Read more:

www.cvrc.virginia.edu/sonkusare-ci...
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Over 40% of males over 70 show some Y chromosome loss (LOY). In a new @science.org Translational Medicine paper, CVRC members Ken Walsh, PhD, and Yohei Arai, MD, PhD, study LOY in the kidneys and show that the damage it causes can be reversed. Read more: cvrc.virginia.edu/walsh-arai-l...

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"The goal is to understand cellular signals and mechanisms so they can be targeted for therapy in conditions like high blood pressure, obesity, atherosclerosis, & lung injury."

CVRC member Swapnil Sonkusare, PhD, is featured in this week's @uvahealth.bsky.social Research in Motion video!

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Clint Miller, PhD, was featured in this week's Research in Motion. Hear about @clintomics.bsky.social's research below!

"We identify an unmet medical need, thoroughly investigate what's known, devise an experimental strategy to answer the question better, and hopefully identify ways of better treating patients."

CVRC Director Gary Owens, PhD, is featured by @uvahealth.bsky.social!

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@chriskramermd.bsky.social, George A. Beller MD/Lantheus Medical Imaging Distinguished Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and CVRC member, became President of @accintouch.bsky.social at their annual meeting. Congratulations, Dr. Kramer!

Read: www.cvrc.virginia.edu/christopher-...

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