Cardiovascular Research Center seminar

Cardiovascular Seminar Series

Current Seminars

Fridays at 9 a.m. in HKRB 150

This forum brings to campus prominent external speakers and provides presentations by University of Kentucky faculty to ensure their research expertise is widely known.

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Previous Cardiovascular Seminar Series Sessions

Spring 2025 Semester

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
01/24/2025 Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Potential Therapeutic Use of High-Density Lipoproteins in Cardiac Surgery Patients to Suppress Intraoperative Endothelial Activation and Reduce Postoperative AKI and Delirium Loren Smith, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
01/31/2025 Faculty Recruitment Seminar: The Journey of CARMN: From Identification to Functional Characterization Xiangqin He, PhD Augusta University Hong Lu, MD, PhD
02/07/2025 Transcriptional Control of Fibrosis in Human Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Jonathan Brown, MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/14/2025 Dr. Gustafson conducts community based interventions focused on improving food access to rural underserved populations and focuses on health disparities related to rural & minoritized populations using mental health interventions and digital technology. Alison Gustafson, PhD, MPH, RDN, LD University of Kentucky Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
02/21/2025 Faculty Recruitment Seminar: Epigenetic Regulation in Atheroschlerosis Carrie Wiese, PhD University of California Los Angeles Greg Graf, PhD
02/28/2025 Novel Strategy for Enhancing Macrophage Phagocytosis and Reducing Vascular Leakage During Sepsis Guo-Chang Fan, PhD University of Cincinnati Xiangan Li, PhD
03/07/2025 Held for Candidate Seminar
03/14/2025 Dr. Beauloye's research includes acute coronary syndromes, links between coagulation and platelets and control of the cardiac metabolism. Christophe Beauloye, PhD Institut Cardiovasculaire, Saint-Luc Florin Despa, PhD
03/21/2025 UK Spring Break
03/28/2025 BAF60s and the Development of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Jifeng Zhang, PhD University of Michigan Hong Lu, MD, PhD
04/04/2025 Held for Candidate Seminar
04/11/2025 FCPS Spring Break
04/18/2025 Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) Activation as a Novel Approach to Mitigate Cardiovascular Disease Zhiyong Lin, PhD Emory University Hong Lu, MD, PhD

Fall 2025 Semester

Date Event Title Speaker Institute Host
09/12/2025 Available
09/19/2025 Available
09/26/2025 Cardiovascular Research Day
09/27/2025 Saha Aortic Symposium
10/10/2025 Available
10/17/2025 Available
10/24/2025 Available
10/31/2025 Available
11/07/2025 Available
11/14/2025 Available
11/21/2025 Coenzyme A As A Regulator of Mitochondrial Metabolism Roberta Leonardi, PhD West Virginia University Greg Graf, PhD
12/05/2025 Available