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Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Euan Ashley, Medicine (Cardiovascular) and Genetics

Brian Chu is studying heart failure, which is when the heart is unable to pump hard enough to supply blood. He is looking at a protein that is known to play a role in the nervous system, but may also have beneficial effects in the heart. Specifically, he is quantifying the expression of that protein in heart tissue and measuring the strength of heart cells treated with that protein.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 26, 2015:

Evaluation of Candidate Agonists for the Orexin Receptor and Implications on Cardiac Function

Brian Chu^1,2, Ching Shang^1,2, Marco Perez^1,2, Euan Ashley^1,2
[Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease¹ and Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)², Stanford University]