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thekasslab
Jan 10, 20241 min read
Fond Farewell to Sumita and Brian
We bid a fond farewell to Drs. Sumita Mishra and Brian Lin, as they continue on their scientific careers as Assistant Professors!...
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thekasslab
Nov 8, 20221 min read
Vivek wins the 2022 Melvin Marcus Award; David wins the Distinguished Scientist Award at the AHA.
Vivek Jani wins 2022 Melvin Marcus Award from American Heart Association for his terrific study unraveling mechanisms of heterogeneous RV...
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thekasslab
Oct 4, 20221 min read
Kass Lab (past and present) was well-represented at conferences in 2022!
ISHR World Congress in Berlin, Germany (Current: Brian Lin; Past: Christian Oeing, Mark Ranek) New Directions in Fort Lauderdale, FL...
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thekasslab
Mar 25, 20221 min read
AHA-CDA Award on her First Try!
Many congrats to Sumita Mishra, PhD, who just received her AHA-CDA Award. This was her first attempt at the award, Sumita spearheaded our...
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thekasslab
Mar 21, 20221 min read
Congrats to Brittany!
Brittany's PhD study titled "Single serine on TSC2 exerts biased control over mTORC1 activation mediated by ERK1/2 but not Akt" is just...
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thekasslab
Dec 17, 20211 min read
Congrats to Brian on his K99/R00
Congratulations to Brian Lin - whose study on treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy with a TRPC6 blocker is about to be sent off. It is...
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thekasslab
Dec 10, 20211 min read
David is quoted in NYT on how coronavirus attacks fat tissue
Recent research confirms David's work linking obesity and COVID-19 severity (https://www.kasslab.johnshopkins.edu/post/david-kass-work-li...
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thekasslab
Nov 30, 20211 min read
HFpEF Program Receives Funding from Amgen
Dr. Kavita Sharma, assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology, has received a philanthropic gift from Amgen to the Johns Hopkins’...
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thekasslab
Nov 16, 20211 min read
Sumita publishes her work on PDE9 inhibition and obesity in JCI
Sumita publishes her recent work on the therapeutic impact of PDE9 inhibition on obesity and cardiometabolic syndrome in the Journal of...
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thekasslab
Oct 16, 20211 min read
Grace and Virginia publishes on their work using a novel PDE1 inhibitor in mice and human patients
Two recent papers from the lab focused on the impact of a novel PD1 inhibitor, ITI-214, which has important therapeutic implications....
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thekasslab
Aug 12, 20211 min read
Congrats to Virginia on becoming the 2021 Sarnoff Scholar
Virginia Hahn was named a 2021 Sarnoff Scholar, using transcriptomics to study HFpEF. Big congrats! The Sarnoff Scholar Award is a...
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thekasslab
Jun 24, 20211 min read
Brittany defends her thesis!
Congratulations, Brittany!
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thekasslab
May 22, 20211 min read
Farewell to Joy and Alex!
Joy and Alex will begin med school later this year! Congrats!
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thekasslab
Dec 7, 20201 min read
David and Mark give award lectures at ISHR-NAS 2020
Dr. David Kass gave the International Society for Heart Research - North American Section Innovator Award Lecture entitled: “Heart...
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thekasslab
Nov 27, 20201 min read
David Kass wins the 2020 Lucian Award
'The Louis and Artur Lucian Award was established through a bequest to McGill University under the will of the late Olga Leibovici to...
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thekasslab
Nov 23, 20201 min read
Imran Aslam wins best poster at MACCS 2020
Imran Aslam was a Best Poster winner for “Depressed Right Ventricular Sarcomere Contractility in HFpEF with Severe Obesity.”
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thekasslab
Sep 15, 20201 min read
David Kass and Deok-Ho Kim are awarded a new collaborative UG3/UH3 grant!
David and Deok-Ho (co-PIs) were recently awarded a new UG3/UH3 grant entitled: 'Engineering Clinical Trials on a Chip for...
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thekasslab
Sep 13, 20201 min read
Mark Ranek (PI), Virginia Hahn (co-I), and Kavita Sharma (co-I) are awarded Amyloidosis grants!
Mark (PI) was awarded a research grant from the Amyloidosis Foundation Donald C. Brockman Memorial Research Grant entitled: 'Chip'n Away...
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thekasslab
Sep 12, 20201 min read
Virginia wins first place at Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators' Forum!
Virginia won first place in the Clinical Fellows category at the annual Northwestern Cardiovascular Young Investigators' Forum (virtual)!...
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thekasslab
Sep 12, 20201 min read
David Kass' work linking obesity to COVID-19 has been featured in multiple news outlets
David published a key study linking obesity and COVID-19 in younger patients that was published in the Lancet: 'Obesity could shift...
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