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Two grants issued to study extracellular matrix, CVD
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The American Heart Association and The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group have issued grants to two researchers in order to study the extracellular matrix in the heart, according to a press release.
The award recipients are Suneel Apte, MBBS, DPhil, of Cleveland Clinic, and Jeffrey Holmes, MD, PhD, of the University of Virginia.
“Our shared feeling with the AHA was that it was desirable to take a serious look at areas of [CV] knowledge outside of the most common approaches to heart health and disease,” Tom Skalak, PhD, executive director of The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, said in the release. “That paved the way for this new work on extracellular matrix, and perhaps to a new era of heart health for millions of people.”
Both researchers received grants of $1.5 million. Apte’s team will study how and why breakdown of the extracellular matrix occurs. Holmes’ team will look at how the extracellular matrix stores data in the proteins and learn how aging changes the make-up.