Exercise for older mouse mothers lowers risk of heart defects in babies

Exercise for older mouse mothers lowers risk of heart defects in babies

Older mice genetically prone to bear offspring with heart defects can reduce this risk to that of younger mouse mothers with the same genetic defect through exercise alone, according to new research at the School of Medicine. The study, led by Patrick Y. Jay, MD, PhD, also suggests that the increased risk of congenital heart defects is tied to the age of the mother and not the age of her eggs.

Researcher receives grant to collect data from summer training programs

Treva K. Rice, PhD, professor of biostatistics and of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a four-year, $1.79 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “PRIDE Coordination Center.”

Medical researchers receive NIH grant for summer institute program

D.C. Rao, PhD, and Victor G. Davila-Roman, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have received a four-year, $1.28 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a program titled “PRIDE Summer Institute in Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology.”

Graduate students receive heart association fellowships

Zeynep Yurtsever, a biochemistry graduate student, and Daniel Kober, a microbiology graduate student, both in the laboratory of Thomas Brett, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have received two-year, $52,000 fellowships from the American Heart Association.

Sung receives heart disease research grant

Yun Ju Sung, PhD, assistant professor of biostatistics and of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a five-year, $718,950 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Statistical Methods For Genomic Dissection of Cardiovascular Diseases.”
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