UCSD cardiologist receives NIH award
Dr. Chi. Photo: UCSD
With this $2.3 million award, Chi and his team will study the remarkable ability of the zebrafish to regenerate the heart. The team has created a collection of tools which will help in understanding the underlying mechanisms of cardiac regeneration. “Heart failure is the leading cause of death in the Western world,” said Chi. “Using the zebrafish model, we hope to someday apply this regeneration process to humans, programming cells to turn into ventricular cardiomyocytes, the cells that make up heart muscle, thus replacing cells lost due to heart attack or heart failure.”
Chi is one of 52 New Innovator honorees nationwide, including 13 researchers from within the University of California.
Established in 2007, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award funds new investigators who propose highly innovative research projects that could have an exceptionally great impact on biomedical or behavioral science.
SOURCE: Press release
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on Oct 14, 2010. Filed under Health & Science, News.
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