Eesha Murali was awarded a Washington Research Foundation fellowship!
Please join us in congratulating Eesha Murali on her Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Fellowship!
Please join us in congratulating Eesha Murali on her Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Fellowship!
The finalized schedule for the University of Washington Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) symposium is now available. It will be a fully virtual event again this year, via Zoom, on the afternoon of Monday, November 1 (12-5pm PT) and the morning of Tuesday, November 2 (8am-1pm PT). Our Keynote speakers are Rong Tian, Director of the UW Mitochondria…
Research work funded in part by the UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) was recently presented at the 66th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Congratulations to all presenters!
Dr. Mike Regnier is an invited speaker at the 50th European Muscle Conference (EMC) coming up in September 2023. The EMC will be in held in Florence, Italy. Dr. Regnier will be the “DISEASE MODELS” session chair and his talk title will be: “Molecular mechanisms of contractile abnormalities for the MYH7 variant G256E”. Graduate student,…
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…
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,…
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…