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Congratulations to our 2021 Pilot Grant Program Awardees
The UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) is delighted to announce that three exciting pilot grants have been awarded as part of the 2021 Pilot Grant Program. The CTMR Pilot Grant Program provides funding to support the development of exciting new muscle research on campus by allowing investigators to (1) obtain preliminary data needed…

Dr. Ru Gunawardane joins CTMR External Advisory Board
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,…
CTMR represents at the 50th European Muscle Conference Florence 2023
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,…
CTMR/BioCAT collaboration leads to new PNAS paper “Structural OFF/ON transitions of myosin in relaxed porcine myocardium predict calcium-activated force“ The UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) working with the Regnier Lab and the BioCAT x-ray beamline at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Lab, explore the potential of sarcomere-targeted small molecules as treatments…
CTMR Pilot Grants application deadline: February 15, 2023
I am pleased to announce a request for proposals to the Pilot Grant program of the UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR). Applications are due on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, by 5:00 pm. Visit http://ctmr.washington.edu/pilot-grants/ for more information.

Work Presented at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
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!