Khanh-Van T Tran, MD PhD

What an amazing lecture on GLP1RA therapy by Dr. Plutzky! 😁Love focusing on adipose biology and open access. #ASPC2025

So proud of Elisa presenting our data on statin adherence from our center at #ASPC2025 Congress on #CVDPrevention. Love “flipping the script” and focusing on prevention. Cool!

Incredibly lucky to be working and learning with the best team around! 👇🤩 Happy summer! #TranLab

I took this tonight and can’t stop thinking about it. Fascinating to me. Why does it behave like that? #basicscience #adiposebiology

👇What’s the biology behind PVATxASCVD? LAD FAI predicts MACE. #OutsideIn #shiftingParadigm #MolecularMechanisms

What a cool #NLA2025 Scientific Session. Starting the morning learning about powerful AI tools we have to stage atherosclerosis and prevent it!!! #Proactive #NotReactive #ASCVDPrevention #shiftingparadigm

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company

Basic science is incredibly important and needs support! 👇

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Molecular mechanisms #basicscience bringing us together! Happy Monday 🙂

Can’t wait for Dr. Mo talk! #mechamism 🔬

Read the joint Consensus from @aspcardio.bsky.social & @nationallipid.bsky.social! Recognition & Management of Persistent Chylomicronemia: A comprehensive expert clinical consensus by the NLA & ASPC. ow.ly/NU9g50VqxCE @michaeldshapiro.bsky.social @erinmichos.bsky.social #NationalTriglyceridesDay

Stages of CKM syndrome

There are strong connections among cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity, defined as cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome. For the first time, the AHA defines this condition and outlines screening and treatment.

Kate Fitzgerald, PhD, presenting at the BRIDGE Fund Innovation Showcase

Jonathan Watts, PhD, presenting at the BRIDGE Fund Innovation Showcase

HoWan Kim and Claudio Punzo, PhD, engaged in conversation at the BRIDGE Fund Innovation Showcase

Marcus Ruscetti, PhD, speaking at the BRIDGE Fund Innovation Showcase

The BRIDGE Fund Innovation Showcase highlighted the translational research by UMass Chan faculty that is progressing toward commercialization thanks, in part, to investments from the BRIDGE Fund: direc.to/mDjG

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Can’t wait!!!!

Fellow Spotlight March 2025 Shantel Brissett, MD Cardiology Fellow “I chose UMass Chan because of its well-rounded clinical experience with exposure to multiple subspecialties in cardiology. Also, the high volume and diverse complexity of the patient population offer a solid foundation for acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for competency after training.”

In this month’s Fellow Spotlight, we feature Shantel Brissett, MD, a Cardiology fellow at UMass Chan. We recently caught up with Dr. Brissett to learn more about her clinical and research interests, why she chose UMass Chan for her fellowship, and more!

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Great to see wonderful colleagues at the MA WICC event discussing PCSK9 inhibitor and its impact on #ASCVD prevention! Engaging talk by Dr. Saucier. So excited and proud of 👇👇🤩

From left, Guangping Gao, Terence Flotte, James McGovern, and Katherine Luzuriaga at the start of the roundtable discussion

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Joel Richter, PhD, the Arthur F. Koskinas Chair in Neuroscience and professor of molecular medicine

Amy Brown and Brian Brown

UMass Chan researchers, community partners, biotech businesses and families directly impacted by NIH-funded research joined U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern for a roundtable Thursday on proposed cuts to NIH funding and Medicaid: direc.to/mP68

#NIH #ResearchFunding

Researcher Spotlight February 2025 Dr. Khanh-Van Thi Tran Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicine “The greatest part of being a physician-scientist is that you get to bridge the entire spectrum between the bench and the bedside. With bench research, clinical trials and clinical work, I can use the skills that I have to improve patients’ lives. The thought of preventing a single heart attack or arrhythmia for a patient with what I do – that’s what brings meaning to my work." Image of Dr. Khanh-Van Thi Tran

In this month’s Researcher Spotlight, we feature the work of Khanh-Van Thi Tran, MD, PhD, a cardiologist, physician-scientist, and assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Read the full spotlight at the link below!
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Can’t wait! 👇

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REMINDER: The application period for the 2025 Pipeline for underRepresented Students in Medicine (PRISM) is open! Learn more about this opportunity by visiting the link below. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2025.

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👇Best talk this week!

GSK3β Deficiency Expands Obese Adipose Vasculature to Mitigate Metabolic Disorders | Circulation Research BACKGROUND: Maintaining a well-developed vascular system alongside adipose tissue (AT) expansion significantly reduces the risk of metabolic complications. Although GSK3β (glycogen synthase kinase-3 b...

ahajrnls.org/42cIkYB Very cool science about adipose vasculature and metabolic health!!! Check out our editorial! www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #VascularAdiposeCrosstalk

Here’s to a wonderful holiday season! @umassmedicine.bsky.social @bernard13.bsky.social

Incredibly proud of Irina! Happy Holidays!!!

The best part about the Tran Lab—our team! Shout out to the McManus and Donahue labs the for the collaboration. Happy holidays everyone!

YouTube video by Nobel Prize 2024 Nobel Prize lectures in physiology or medicine | Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

Amazing! 🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ9N...

Inside a Nobel-winning marriage: They see each other as scientific equals, even if the prize committee doesn't Ambros and Lee's collaboration helped spawn a new field of biology while proving breakthrough science can come out of a family-friendly lab

“Neither one of us would be even close to accomplishing what we’ve done if we were separate.” - Victor R. Ambros, PhD, and Rosalind “Candy” Lee spoke to @mmolteni.bsky.social of @statnews.bsky.social about their relationship & the culture they’ve built for women scientists: direc.to/m6t3 #NobelPrize

Congratulations to Dr. Jane Freedman #EditorInChief #CircRes @ahascience.bsky.social on official appointment as #Chair of #VUMC_Medicine & Deputy CEO & Chief Health System Officer 2025! Your visionary #Leadership inspires us all! Excited for the remarkable journey ahead! @vumc-insights.bsky.social

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❤️ 🦋 I’m all in!!!

I'm giddy with excitement to have found this place