Dr. Lingfeng Luo has been awarded the American Heart Association Career Development Award, a prestigious three-year grant supporting early-career investigators exploring innovative research in cardiovascular science. This award will allow Dr. Luo to investigate the intersection between cardiovascular disease and cancer, with the goal of generating critical preliminary data and gaining advanced research training to support a long-term career in academic medicine.

Ryan Choi was recently awarded the prestigious Sarnoff Scholar Award, a competitive grant that supports junior faculty during the early stages of their academic careers. Funded by the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation, the award provides substantial resources to former Sarnoff Fellows pursuing independent research in cardiovascular science.

Using a high-throughput screen of nearly 3,000 FDA-approved drugs, Dr. Leeper et al found that thiothixene, an antipsychotic medication approved over 50 years ago, stood out as an existing drug that had the potential to stimulate efferocytosis.