2022 Myofilament Meeting
In May, CTMR Investigators participated in the 2022 Myofilament research conference “Myofilament Form and Function: Determinants of Sarcomeric Contractility” in Madison, Wisconsin.


In May, CTMR Investigators participated in the 2022 Myofilament research conference “Myofilament Form and Function: Determinants of Sarcomeric Contractility” in Madison, Wisconsin.
We are excited to announce that Ruwanthi (Ru) Gunawardane, Ph.D. is joining CTMR as a member of our External Advisory Board. Ru was recently named Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Cell Science in 2020 after spending five years at Amgen, where she worked on assay development for multiple drug targets spanning oncology, inflammation,…
A huge congratulations to 2020 CTMR pilot grant recipient Farid Moussavi-Harami, MD, who recently received a Notice of Award for his first NIH R01 grant! An Assistant Professor with the UW Medicine’s Division of Cardiology, Dr. Moussavi Harami’s CTMR pilot grant study focused on the genetic mutations, such as dilated cardiomyopathy, impacted contractile force in…
Applications are now open for the UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) Mini Pilot Grants! Mini Pilot Grants provide $5,000-$10,000 in direct support for pilot studies to new users of CTMR core services who need a limited, specified set of data from one of the cores. Examples of the use of this grant mechanism…
Save the Date! The 2022 UW CTMR Symposium will be held on Monday, October 24th, 2022 from 9:00am – 6:00pm Pacific Time in the Orin Smith Auditorium. Registration information and additional details coming soon.
On October 24th, 2022 the CTMR held its annual symposium. Over 130 people registered and researchers from a variety of backgrounds shared their work during our first in-person symposium since the founding of the Center in 2019. CTMR director, Dr, Michael Regnier welcomed scientists from near and far. Although most of the attendees were from…
Congratulations to CTMR Team Core D for their JGP May cover showing “A detailed computational model of striated muscle elucidates how mutations and drugs may alter twitch timing. The spatially explicit model simulates myosin motors connected within a compliant, contractile lattice, complete with thin filament regulation and varying mutation penetrance. The model yields data used…