Eesha Murali was awarded a Washington Research Foundation 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…

Congratulations to CTMR faculty investigator Farid Moussavi-Harami, Assistant Professor in the UW Division of Cardiology, for receipt of the Paul F. Cranefield award from the Council of the Society of General Physiologists. The award, reserved for a truly noteworthy paper, is to recognize an independent young investigator who has published an outstanding article in the Journal…

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…

Save the date for our 4th annual UW Center for Translational Muscle Research (CTMR) symposium.  This year the symposium will be an all-day event on Monday, December 4th, 2023 in Seattle, WA at Orin Smith Auditorium.   We are planning to have an in-person symposium but will also have a Zoom-in option.   Our Keynote speakers this year will be: Douglas Millay, PhD, is a faculty member…

We are thrilled to invite you to register for our 5th Annual CTMR Symposium! We hope you can join us for an exciting day of science including a Keynote Session with investigators from the Study of Muscle, Mobility, and Aging (SOMMA), a Featured Research Talk by Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert PhD, Vice Dean, UW School of Medicine,…