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Chemical and nutrient signaling are fundamental for all cellular processes, including interactions between the mammalian host and the microbiota, which have a significant impact on health and disease. My lab…
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Research Description One of the major goals of my research program is to understand the role of membrane microdomains such as lipid rafts and caveolae in health and disease. We address…
6/17/2025
A. Personal Statement I am an active, practicing vascular surgeon who has also maintained an independently funded basic science/translational research laboratory since 2003. My clinical practice is focused on the care…
6/17/2025
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful technology that has evolved into a comprehensive imaging approach to cardiovascular disease. A major focus of our work is on developing clinical applications…
6/17/2025
SERCA2a [the Ca-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of cardiac muscle] plays a central role in intracellular calcium dynamics and thus in the contractility of the heart. The SR regulates the…
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Specific Research Ongoing in the McNamara lab Discovery of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the human ID3 gene that is functionally relevant and associated with vascular disease in humans. The…
6/17/2025
We are working to understand the over-all organization of the circadian systems of vertebrates. Currently we have focused our attention on a transgenic rat model in which one of the…
6/17/2025
My laboratory's research focus involves the application of modern genomics and bioinformatics approaches to unravel complex and rare cardiovascular diseases. By integrating large-scale human genetic association and whole genome sequencing…
6/17/2025
Our laboratory studies macromolecular structures with an aim toward an in-depth understanding of structure-function relationships. X-ray diffraction analysis is our primary research tool, but we also employ other physical and…
