CVRI T32 Molecular and Cellular Basis of Cardiovascular Disease
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This NIH T32 funded training program is exclusively postdoctoral.  To maximize the impact of this T32 and the number of trainees exposed to its rigorous standards and activities, 8 trainees will be appointed each year for a single year of T32 funding, then rotate off to support provided by individual fellowship grants, grants on which the mentor is PI or other laboratory funds.  All trainees will hold PhD, MD, or MD/PhD degrees. Two T32-funded positions will be dedicated to MD or MD/PhD Cardiology fellows (or occasionally other clinical fellows in disciplines relevant to cardiovascular biology and disease) seeking rigorous training in patient-based research through UCSF's TICR program.  The remaining trainees will be a mix of PhD, MD, and MD/PhD trainees recruited into CVRI laboratories by individual mentors.

All trainees appointed to the T32 are required to take the Responsible Conduct of Research course.  In addition, MD-trained program trainees engaged in clinical research have the option to take formal coursework for training or advanced training in clinical research.  Partial tuition for TICR-based trainees will be covered by the program.  Opportunities for Laboratory-based Research Track appointees are also available – the trainee will discuss possible coursework opportunities with the Advisor and primary mentor in their initial meeting.  Trainees will be encouraged to take the graduate school course(s) relevant to their areas of interest if they have not had similar courses in their prior training.

Although coursework is available, the heart of this training program is formulation and execution of a substantial research project relevant to cardiovascular biology and disease (broadly defined) and development of professional skills under the guidance of a faculty mentor.  This core research training is supplemented by co-, group- and peer-mentoring, and by coursework tailored to a trainee’s specific needs.  Coursework is particularly intensive for the TICR track, which grounds MD-trained appointees in clinical research.  In the laboratory-based research track, trainees have usually selected a primary mentor and apply to the program with support from that investigator.  Entering Cardiology fellows who apply to the laboratory-based research track or TICR tracks will be aided in their selection of a primary mentor by Dr. Javid Moslehi.  When the primary mentor is a junior faculty member, an advisory committee of co-mentors is provided.  Otherwise, the primary mentor and trainee select co-mentors as appropriate for complementary knowledge and skills that support the project.  Group and peer mentoring will occur in CVRIPS at which trainees present ongoing work to the entire community, laboratory group meetings, thematic research-in-progress groups, daily interactions in the laboratory, and other venues to facilitate formal and informal scientific interaction.

To apply for a position on the CVRI’s T32, please send by email a cover letter including a brief statement of your research interests and accomplishments with your curriculum vitae directly to the Program Faculty Member/s of interest to you. Applications to the NIH T32 training grant will be made jointly with the faculty member.  Program faculty members are listed below.

Christopher Allen
Mechanisms of allergic lung inflammation

Kaveh Ashrafi
Metabolic regulation of neural functions during aging

Kamran Atabai
Limiting fibrosis through cell-mediated collagen turnover

Brian Black
Gene Regulatory Networks in cardiovascular development and regeneration

Benoit Bruneau
Heart development/congenital heart disease

Abigail Buchwalter
Function and dynamic regulation of the nuclear lamina

Daniele Canzio
Regulation of clustered Protocadherins;neuronal cell-surface diversity

John Chorba
Chemical Biology of Cardiometabolic Disease

Jan Christoph
Computational cardiology, cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms and imaging 

Pao-Tien Chuang
The mechanisms of lung branching and alveolar formation

William Degrado
Protein Design, Drug Design, Integrin structure/function, Fibrosis

John Fahy
Airway biology and molecular phenotypes of airway diseases

Trevor Fidler
Macrophages and atherosclerosis

Jeffrey R. Fineman                
Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disorders

Edward Gerstenfeld
Mechanism of ectopy induced remodeling in cardiac arrhythmias

Douglas Gould
Biological functions and pathogenic contributions of extracellular matrix

Michael Grabe
Computational approaches to structure/function of membrane proteins

Akiko Hata
Pathogenesis of vascular disease and deregulation of TGFbeta signaling

Robert A. Hiatt                       
Epidemiology; cancer; social determinants; health disparities

Guo Huang
Heart regeneration

Roshanak Irannejad              
Subcellular GPCR signaling in the cardiovascular system

Isha Jain                                
Oxygen and vitamin metabolism and treatment

Lily Jan
Studies of calcium-activated ion channels and lipid scramblases

David Julius
Molecular biology of somatosensation and pain

Natalia Jura
Regulation of growth factor signaling by ubiquitination

Tom Kornberg
Organogenesis and patterning during Drosophila development

Mark Looney                          
Immunobiology of the normal and injured lung

Dengke Ma
Molecular genetic basis of physiological resilience in animals

Takashi Mikawa
Developmental regulation of organogenesis

Daniel Minor
Structure, function, and pharmacology of ion channels

Javid J. Moslehi                    
Cardiovascular complications of novel targeted cancer therapies

Maxence V. Nachury              
Quality control of the primary cilium proteome

Jose Angel Nicolas-Avila       
Macrophages and cardiovascular quality control

Elphege P. Nora                     
Chromosome biology and genomics

Jeffrey Olgin
Mechanisms of arrhythmias

Akinyemi Oni-Orisan             
Pharmaco-genomics

Jeremy Reiter
Signaling at the primary cilium, the cell's antenna

Dean Sheppard                    
In vivo biology of integrins

Kevan M. Shokat                   
Chemical approaches to deciphering and controlling signal transduction 

Xiaokun Shu
Protein engineering; Fluorescence reporters; biomolecular condensates

Anthony K. Shum                   
Study of the intersection of autoimmunity with cardiopulmonary disease

Deepak Srivastava
Molecular and genetic dissection of cardiogenesis

Christina V. Theodoris           
Gene Regulatory Networks in Cardiovascular Disease

Geoffrey H. Tison                  
Cardiovascular disease phenotyping and prediction, machine learning

Zian Tseng
Heart rhythm

Vasanth Vedantham           
Heart rhythm

Biao Wang
Energy metabolism in adipocytes

Lei Wang
Genetically encoding unnatural amino acids and biotherapeutics

Rong Wang
Molecular programming of the vasculature in development/disease

Orion Weiner
Cell polarity 

Balyn W. Zaro                        
Innate immunity in human disease, therapeutic development