NIH/NHLBI R01 funding awarded

The lab receives a five-year NIH/NHLBI R01 award (1R01HL179012) to investigate how senescent macrophages — aged cardiac immune cells — drive heart failure progression. The project will define how these cells trigger maladaptive inflammation, whether they lose the capacity to clear damaged tissue, and whether blocking macrophage senescence can reverse cardiac damage. Co-investigators: Drs. James Martin, Arash Pezhouman, and Diwakar Turaga, with collaborators at Northwestern. Texas Heart Institute press release.