6/17/2025
Identification of Factors and Mechanisms that Regulate the Stability of Late Stage Atherosclerotic Lesions and the Probability of Thromboembolic Events Including a Heart Attack or StrokeAtherothrombosis, resulting from rupture or…
6/17/2025
Systems analysis has become a requirement for making sense of high-throughput data and for characterizing properties of biological networks. In order to extend these recent developments to medical applications, there…
6/17/2025
The Important Role of the Microcirculation: Every organ in the body is dependent on blood flow to provide the necessary oxygen and nutrients in order to stay alive. The circulatory system…
6/17/2025
The Price Laboratory in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia has two major areas of research interest. The first centers on the use of image-guided focused…
6/17/2025
Dr. Rich's research is centered on understanding the genetic epidemiology of complex human disease, including the genes contributing to atherosclerosis, stroke and intermediate phenotypes (risk factors). These studies range from…
6/17/2025
Cell signaling networks coordinate a wide variety of cellular physiology and gene regulatory programs. Perturbations in these signaling networks contribute to the pathogenesis of many diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer…
6/17/2025
Understanding how gene expression is regulated in response to signals from both inside and outside the body plays a critical role in allowing us to adapt to changes in the…
6/17/2025
My graduate work investigated the link between adipose tissue inflammation and oxidative stress. Adipose tissue inflammation is an underlying cause of obesity-associated insulin resistance, affecting millions of people in the…
6/27/2025
Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease whose late-stage clinical complications including myocardial infarction (heart attack) and stroke, are the leading causes of death worldwide. Clinical trials of anti-inflammatory therapies yield…
6/17/2025
The post-genomic era is marked by the development of technologies which have revealed the astonishing molecular diversity of gene products. Multiple distinct protein forms, or “proteoforms”, can arise through several…
