Awarded grant in 2009 The Role of Dystrphin in Enterovirus Induced Viral Myocarditis Specific Aim1. Determine whether cardiac myocyte-specific, inducible expression of enterovirus protease 2A in the dystrophin knock-in adult…
Awarded grant in 2009 Discovering and Understanding Virus-Host Factor Interactions for Treatment of Viral Myocarditis “We showed that virus signaling during infection originated from, and converge upon, dominant signaling ‘nodes.’…
Awarded grant in 2009 Thrombin-PAR-1 Signaling in Viral Myocarditis “I conclude that PAR-1 activation is essential in the early phase of virus infection to manage an effective immune response against…
Awarded grant in 2008 Cellular and Viral Determinants of Neonatal Group B Coxsackievirus Myocarditis “Sequence comparisons of more recently circulating CVB1 and CVB3 virus 5’UTR and stemloop 2 folding patterns…
Awarded grant in 2007 Gene Expression Profiling for Detection of Myocarditis “The overall goal of this study is to improve diagnostic sensitivity for detection of myocarditis by endomyocardial biopsy derived…
Awarded grant in 2007 The Role of Monocytes in Autoimmune Myocarditis “We have assembled evidence that EAM is driven in part by the Th17 pathway in the mouse; however, in…
