• Rabinovitch/Bland Cardiopulmonary Research Laboratory
• Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
• Department of Pediatrics (Cardiology and Neonatology)
• Stanford University School of Medicine

Lab News

AHA 2006 Distinguished Scientist Award to Dr. Rabinovitch

Marlene Rabinovitch, MD, received a Distinguished Scientist Award, one of the highest awards given by the Association, at the 2006 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, held November 12-15 in Chicago. This prestigious title was bestowed on a select group of six prominent scientists who have made extraordinary contributions to cardiovascular and stroke research to advance our understanding of these conditions.

Last year, the AHA Council on Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative and Critical Care honored Dr. Marlene Rabinovitch as the speaker of the Dickinson W. Richards Lecture, and in 2004, she was awarded the AHA Basic Reserch Prize, and the Canadian Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) Distinguished Lecturship and Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences. More >

AHA Awards Cardiopulmonary Medicine prize to post doctoral fellow Georg HansmaNN

Georg Hansmann, MD, former post doctoral fellow in the lab of Marlene Rabinovitch (currently a clinical fellow at the UCSF School of Medicine), was awarded the American Heart Association’s Cournand & Comroe Young Investigator Prize in Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care from the association’s Council on Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care. More > 

Featured research

THE ROLE OF LC3 IN CELL MOTILITY AND GROWTH

LC3, a microtubule associated protein, regulates messenger RNA (mRNA) transcription through interaction between an arginine-rich (RRR) domain in LC3 and a sequence (UUAUUUAU) in the mRNA from a variety of genes, including fibronectin and apolipoprotein D, implicated in vascular cell migration and in preventing cancerous transformation. More >