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Sasha Prisco Earns Early-Career Research Award
Sasha Prisco, MD, PhD, has been selected as the recipient of the Dr. Anne Joseph Early-Career Research Award (ERA)!
Lillehei, Faculty, Cardiovascular Division

CV Division Faculty & Staff Earn Clinical Excellence Honors
The M Physicians Clinical Excellence Honors program recognizes the excellence of clinical practitioners as demonstrated through their care for patients.In February, M Physicians asked our physicians...
Lillehei, Patient Care, Cardiovascular Division

New CVD Fellowship Administrator: Julie Xiong
Please join us in welcoming Julie Xiong, who has joined the Med Ed/Cardiovascular team as the new Fellowship Administrator for the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program.Julie previously worked as...
Lillehei, Cardiovascular Division

Valmiki Maharaj, MD Named New Director of Cardiovascular Fellowship Program
Effective April 23, 2025, Dr. Valmiki Maharaj will assume the role of Program Director for the University of Minnesota’s Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program. He succeeds Dr. Jane Chen, who led...
Lillehei, Faculty, Cardiovascular Division

Elliott Honored with UMMC Medical Staff Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Andrea Elliott, M.D. for her nomination and selection for the 2024 UMMC Clinical Education Medical Staff Award! Dr. Elliott received her award at a ceremony...
Lillehei, Faculty, Cardiovascular Division

Kamdar Receives AHA International Visiting Professorship Award
Congratulations to Forum Kamdar, MD, PhD, the 2025 Recipient of the AHA International Visiting Professorship Award. Dr. Kamdar is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Advanced Heart Failure at the...
Lillehei, Faculty, Research, Cardiovascular Division

Chen Article Published in Stroke
LHI Director, Dr. Lin Yee Chen, published a paper to consolidate left atrial reservoir strain's role as a key risk factor and predictor of stroke and dementia. Read the article >
Lillehei, Research, Cardiovascular Division

New Article in Stem Cell Reports by Aline M.S. Yamashita, Ph.D.
Congratulations to Aline M.S. Yamashita for her new publication in Stem Cell Reports: “Effect of Notch1 signaling on muscle engraftment and maturation from pluripotent stem cells.” Dr. Yamashita is a...
Lillehei, Research, Cardiovascular Division

Jop van Berlo honored with MNP Research Award
Congratulations to LHI Researcher Jop van Berlo, MD, PhD for earning a 2024 Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics (MNP) research award! MNP is funded by the State of Minnesota...
Lillehei, Research, Cardiovascular Division

Join us for American Heart Month Events in February!
February is American Heart Month and LHI and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine have partnered with UMF for a host of events throughout the month. Events include our yearly Step Challenge, Go Red...
Lillehei, Community Engagement, Cardiovascular Division

Lin Yee Chen elected to AUC
Congratulations to Lillehei Heart Institute Director, Dr. Lin Yee Chen, for his election to the Association of University Cardiologists.
Lillehei, Cardiovascular Division

Fernando Souza-Neto, PhD Earns Fundable Score for a Postdoctoral Fellowship from AHA
Congratulations to van Berlo lab member Fernando Souza-Neto, PhD for receiving a fundable score from the American Heart Association for a postdoctoral fellowship!
Lillehei, Research, Cardiovascular Division

Lin Yee Chen Publishes New Article in European Heart Journal
This new paper by Dr. Lin Yee Chen, Director of the Lillehei Heart Institute, highlights that left atrial function improves AF prediction more than other conventional cardiac measures.Read the article
Lillehei, Faculty, Cardiovascular Division

New Circulation Publication by Chen and Zhang
Dr. Michael Zhang and LHI Director, Dr. Lin Yee Chen have a new article on on developing FXI inhibitors as anticoagulants published in Circulation.
Lillehei, Research, Cardiovascular Division

Three CV Faculty Receive Dept of Medicine Excellence Awards
The Cardiovascular Division is proud to share that three of our faculty received Department of Medicine Excellence Awards for their incredible contributions in research, clinical care, and education...
Lillehei, Faculty, Cardiovascular Division

Prins Research Earns Cover of Circulation Research
The latest edition of Circulation Research features the work of Kurt Prins, MD, PhD. In the article, the Prins lab shows ferroptosis may be a new therapeutic target for PAH. The work is...
Lillehei, Research, Cardiovascular Division

Moonlighting for the Mitochondria
A new article by Kurt Prins and Sasha Prisco highlights a previously unknown function for protein junctophilin-2. (with video)
Lillehei, Research, Cardiovascular Division

New article in Cells by Neha Dhoke, PhD
A Novel CRISPR-Cas9 Strategy to Target DYSTROPHIN Mutations Downstream of Exon 44 in Patient-Specific DMD iPSCs
Lillehei, Faculty