Faculty

This grant supported research on the role of neuropeptides in the remodeling of the cardiac nervous system with heart disease.  My students and I examined the changes induced by chronic heart disease in an animal model of myocardial infarction (or a heart attack) to determine how specific signaling molecules are changing and whether these changes are contributing to the pathology of the disease, or acting to improve cardiac function.  The NIH grant allowed the lab to purchase new equipment for sophisticated electrical recordings from neurons, as well as funded student research opportunities during the summers.