The Molecular Physiology of the Cardiovascular System training program is a multi-disciplinary training program for pre- and postdoctoral trainees. The goal of our program is to train students and ...

Cardiovascular research is one of the key areas of interest of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. Research by our faculty members focuses on a variety of subjects including ...

In cardiomyopathy caused by mutations in LMNA, which encodes the nuclear protein lamin A/C, cardiomyocyte nuclei are fragile and prone to rupture. This study reveals that this rupture arises from ...

Men needed to do roughly nine hours of exercise to see a 30% reduction in their heart disease risk – while women only needed to do around four hours.

A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform how we understand, diagnose, and treat heart ...

A detailed analysis of the molecular and cellular basis of cardiac function employing a multidisciplinary approach including structure (histology, ultrastructure, molecular), biophysics ...