Among stories listed in the AHSC Top Media Mentions for the week of July 13-17, 2015, was the following:
Arizona Business Magazine
UA Sarver Heart Center Scientists Earn NIH Grant
![[Principal investigator Carol Gregorio, PhD, and Christopher Pappas, PhD]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/image003.png "Principal investigator Carol Gregorio, PhD, and Christopher Pappas, PhD")
The Gregorio Lab in the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center’s Molecular and Cardiovascular Research Program (MCRP) was awarded $1.77 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a study called “Deciphering the Role of Lmod2 in Thin Filament Length Regulation and Dilated Cardiomyopathy” (NIH Grant 1R01HL123078). “This award demonstrates the value of Sarver Heart Center’s Investigator Awards Program, which provides seed funding for promising research ideas,” said Carol C. Gregorio, PhD (pictured above right with Christopher Pappas, PhD), head of the UA College of Medicine – Tucson Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, director of the MCRP and co-director of the UA Sarver Heart Center. She is the principal investigator on the NIH grant. Read more…
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