McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty member Julie Phillippi, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, received NIH funding for her project entitled “Matrix mediated vasa vasorum dysfunction in thoracic aortic disease.” The funding period is August 2017 through June 2022. The total award is $1,901,221.
Co-principal investigators on the project include McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine affiliated faculty members:
Thomas Gleason, MD, Ronald V. Pellegrini Endowed Professor and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Marie Billaud, PhD, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Vera Donnenberg, PhD, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
Stephen Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD, Professor in the Department of Surgery, a Deputy Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Director of the Center for Pre-Clinical Tissue Engineering within the Institute