Postdoctoral Training in Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology

UCSD offers a multidisciplinary postdoctoral training program in the Cardiovascular Sciences which has the ultimate goal of producing cardiovascular scientists who can contribute to research and teaching in a broad spectrum of disciplines related to cardiovascular health and disease. The Faculty of the program are from the Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology and Bioengineering at UCSD and bring the resources of the School of Medicine, School of Engineering, Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Molecular Biology, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center to the training program. Research training areas include: Cardiac Mechanics, Cellular electrophysiology, Molecular Biology, Extracellular Matrix Biology, Molecular Mechanisms of Adrenergic Activation, Mechanisms of Myocyte Death in Ischemia, Regulation of Cardiac Contractility, Hypertension, and Catecholamine and Neuropeptide Receptors. Applications from minorities are strongly encouraged.

Faculty of the Program

Faculty research interests, E mail addresses, and links to further information are shown below


   Kirk Knowlton, MD
Interactions between viral pathogens and the cardiac myocyte: Cytoskeletal proteins, innate immunity, and the coxsackie-adenoviral receptor
mailto:kknowlton@ucsd.edu
Departmental link

   Joan Heller Brown, PhD
Signaling through heterotrimeric and small G-proteins in the control of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, apoptosis and heart failure
mailto:jhbrown@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Medical Center link

   Sylvia M. Evans, PhD

Cardiac lineage progenitors in development and disease
mailto:syevans@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
School of Pharamacy link

   Wolfgang H. Dillmann, MD
Studies on changes in the level of specific proteins and mRNAs in the ischemic and hypertrophic myocardium.
mailto:wdillman@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Biomedical Sciences link

   Ju Chen, PhD
Contribution of cytoskeletal proteins to normal cardiac function and cardiomyopathy
mailto:juchen@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Training link

Kirk Hammond, MD
Mechanisms and treatment of human cardiovascular diseases
mailto:khammond@ucsd.edu

   Paul A. Insel, MD
Catecholamine and nucleotide receptors
mailto:painsel@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Laboratory link

   Francisco Villarreal, MD PhD
Humoral and mechanical regulation of cardiac fibroblast function and fibrosis in the remodeled heart
mailto:fvillarr@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Laboratory link

   Wayne R. Giles, PhD
Electrophysiology of the Heart
mailto:wgiles@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Laboratory link

   Andrew D. McCulloch, PhD
Biomechanics of ventricular remodeling and cardiac mechanoelectric feedback
mailto:amcculloch@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Laboratory link

   Robert S. Ross, MD
Integrins and focal adhesion proteins in the myocardium
mailto:rross@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Biomedical Sciences link

   Mark H Ginsberg, PhD
Structure, Function and regulation of integrins
mailto:mhginsberg@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Medical Center link

   Jeffrey H. Omens, PhD
Regional mechanobiology and remodeling of the heart
mailto:jomens@ucsd.edu
Departmental link
Laboratory link

For more information contact:

Kirk Knowlton, M.D.
University of Calif., San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92037-0613K
Phone: (858) 657-8530 Fax: (858) 657-8723
mailto:kknowlton@ucsd.edu
Training Grant URL http://cardprint.ucsd.edu/cvtrain/training_grant.html

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