Our Mission
The mission of the Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center is to support interdisciplinary research in basic, translational and clinical cardiovascular sciences, including cardiovascular development, function, pathophysiology, pharmacology, genetics, genomics, and proteomics, and to apply this knowledge to better understand the causes of cardiovascular diseases and to pioneer development of new innovative therapies and approaches to prevent or treat them.
Goals and Objectives
- To support basic, translational, and clinical research that can be translated into therapies and improve patient care
- To provide resources that enhance research in cardiovascular related diseases
- To disseminate knowledge by lectures, seminars and other educational opportunities
- To support training of pre- and postgraduate students, residents and fellows in the cardiovascular sciences and cardiovascular medicine
- To help integrate cardiovascular research across labs, departments, and schools at UVA as well as with outside institutions including facilitating collaborative studies
- To assist CVRC investigators in developing a plan for translating research findings into products or procedures that benefit patients including providing advice on protecting intellectual property, establishing biotech startup companies, and licensing technology to companies
Mete Civelek, PhD, Receives Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association
Mete Civelek, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a resident faculty of the Center for Public Health Genomics, received the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association. The five-year grant supports established investigators who … Read More
Ken Walsh, PhD, Awarded $2.9 Million to Study Cardiac Amyloidosis, a Deadly Form of Heart Failure
Ken Walsh, PhD, the Lockhart B. McGuire Professor of Internal Medicine and director of the Hematovascular Biology Center in the Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, was awarded a $2.9 million NIH grant for a project titled “Mosaic Loss of … Read More
Yen-Lin Chen, PhD, Awarded NIH Pathway to Independence K99/R00 Award
Yen-Lin Chen, PhD, a research scientist in Sonkusare Lab in the Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), was awarded the NIH Pathway to Independence (K99/R00) Award. This award will support studies of the role of lymph vessel calcium signaling … Read More
Dr. Mete Civelek, PhD Featured in Article: In Our Cellular Glue, Scientists Discover Answers About Heart Attacks, Stroke, More
University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have found important answers about strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases by probing the biological glue our bodies create to protect us from those deadly dangers. The researchers, led by Mete Civelek, PhD, … Read More
Dr. Mete Civelek, PhD, Featured in SOM Medicine in Motion Newsletter
I’m a cardiovascular researcher, and my lab aims to understand how our genetic makeup increases our risk of having a heart attack. We do this by using both computational approaches and experimental approaches. —Mete Civelek, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of … Read More
School of Medicine Researchers Led by Miller Lab Obtain New Insights Into Coronary Artery Disease
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have obtained important new insights into the development of coronary artery disease – the world’s No. 1 killer – in diverse groups of people traditionally underrepresented in research studies. The UVA researchers, led … Read More
Career Development – Navigating the Editorial Process and Career Paths
Dean Melina Kibbe, MD, FACS, FAHA Dean, UVA School of Medicine James Carroll Flippin Professor of Medical Science Chief Health Affairs Officer, UVA Health
Alexandra (Bobbie) Garvin, PhD
Cardiac Fibroblast Phenotypes: Investigation of the Role of Mitochondrial Structure and Function More than 6 million Americans suffer from heart failure secondary to acute and chronic disease states that induce cardiac fibrosis. Fibrosis is the deposition of extracellular matrix that … Read More
Melissa Luse
Dynamic nitrosation - palmitoylation of endothelial CD36 regulates serum lipids My talk will focus specifically on a new post-translational modification of a fatty acid translocase CD36 and how this regulates lipid uptake into endothelium. PhD Candidate Physiology, Isakson Lab, University of … Read More
Career Development-Academic Career Path
Sujith Vijayan, M.A., Ph.D Associate Professor, Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience