View this email in your browser February 2023 - Heart Research SUNY researchers have made important contributions to our knowledge of the heart and how it functions. These include the invention of the heart-lung machine and the implantable pacemaker; Nobel Prize winning research that revolutionized the way we treat heart attacks; and the development of ReoPro, a drug that has been used to treat millions of cardiac angioplasty patients. Bench to bedside cardiovascular research at SUNY continues to lead the way to earlier diagnoses, more tailored treatments, and better patient outcomes. A STUDY FOR THE AGES For nearly 30 years, the Women’s Health Initiative has yielded important findings that continue to make lasting contributions to cardiology. Learn more about the broad scope of the multi-center study’s impact on preventing cardiovascular disease and other conditions in aging women. USING WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY TO PREVENT CARDIAC EVENTS Downstate Health Sciences University cardiac researchers are collaborating with digital health innovator HITLAB and software firm AccurKardia to assess the clinical accuracy of EKG data remotely recorded by wearable smartwatch devices. Early results are promising. Find out more. INVESTIGATING DISPARITIES IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE Researchers will connect individual and neighborhood factors — things like education, income, employment, and healthcare — with genetic markers and clinical outcomes to explore links between processes playing out in DNA, and social determinants that impact cardiovascular health. Read more about this University at Albany study. FIGHT OR FLIGHT V. REST AND DIGEST Understanding more about the push-and-pull of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems will lead to increasingly accurate lab models of heart cells. That knowledge could help with heart transplants, neurodegenerative diseases, stem-cell therapies and pharmaceutical research. Find out more about this $500,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. A NEW PATH TO POTENTIAL HEART THERAPIES SUNY Upstate MD/PhD student Gargi Mishra was awarded an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship to study the impact of the dysfunction of mitochondria in cells, and how this can contribute to heart disease. Learn more about the basic science and how this research may lead to future drug and therapeutic discoveries. LOOKING BEYOND TODAY’S TREATMENTS The Stony Brook Heart Institute is one of five elite sites selected to participate in the clinical trial for a minimally invasive “patch” that seals an artery from the inside after heart valve repair or replacement. Find out more about this new approach to care for heart and valve disease patients. COVER STORY A SUNY Polytechnic Institute collaborative study that seeks to understand the role a specific protein plays in cardiac hypertrophy (thickening of the heart muscle) was featured on the cover of Science Signaling. Read the research findings published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Copyright © 2023 SUNY Research Foundation, All rights reserved. SUNY Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development 35 State Street, NY 12207 Questions, comments and/or feedback Contact us. Received this from a friend? Subscribe here. Missed an issue of our newsletter?  Catch up here. To unsubscribe click here. Please note that if you unsubscribe from this mailing, you will be unsubscribing from all future mailings.