UMass President Marty Meehan just announced that David McManus, MD’02, MSc’12, will be the next chancellor of UMass Chan Medical School: direc.to/o2AM Dr. McManus will succeed Chancellor Michael F. Collins in July after Collins retires as chancellor. Congratulations! #UMass @uofmass.bsky.social

Happy holidays from the coolest CVM research trainees around!🧑‍🔬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 Wishing you a wonderful 2026!!!

Wonderful time at #AHA25 @ahascience.bsky.social ! Couldn’t be more excited about the science and friends we saw. See everyone at #AHA26, or perhaps in @bcvs first. 😁

OSA and POAF ⬇️⬆️➡️ What’s the relationship!? Think you know until you see the data. Check out @tay_orw poster #TranLab @ahascience.bsky.social It’s her scientific question ✨🤩 #HEATAF @umasschan.bsky.social

Congratulations, @spjuraschek.bsky.social (and his mighty team!) for your GoFresh late breaker at #AHA25 and your @jama.com publication! Huge amount of work and very impressive findings. @bidmcreseach.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Catch you in 203-205!!! #AHA25

Calling all coffee drinkers! Dr. Khan has good news from the DECAF trial presented at #AHA25. ☕☕☕

📢 Adding evolocumab to lipid-lowering therapy significantly reduced the risk of a first major CV event in patients without prior heart attack or stroke. #AHA25 ⬇️

Incredibly exciting and helpful updates in our space from Dr Tsimikas! (UMass Chan alum 😁) #APOC3 #sTG #AHA25

So excited to start this morning! Look at those lipid droplets. Join in the 206-207! #HDLsubfraction #molmed #AHA25

Here’s a throwback!!! #fellow-to-faculty #oldfriends @apfenniger.bsky.social #AHA25 #rememberWhen

VESALIUS-CV results presented at #AHA25

ANGPTL3 results presented at #AHA25

Starting NOW in 203-205! #transcriptomics #targetsfromtheBench

Geeking out perivascular adipose tissue! #PVATcrosstalk #PVAT-CVD #AHA25

This lecture by Dr. Packer is beyond cool. It’s fascinating how sensitive the heart is to fat. What’s the crosstalk? 🤔

Kicking off in Rivergate! ADIPOKINE and HFpEF. Can listen and talk about this all day 😁 #soCool #adiposebiology

Happening NOW! Crosstalk 🤔

Remarkable, groundbreaking progress for cardiometabolic science and medicine!!! #FGF21R #GLP1 #APOC3 #ANGPTL3 #PCSK9 #mAb #siRNA #ASO #CRISPRCas9 Shoutout to ♥️ basic and clinical scientists moving this forward for our patients! @ahascience.bsky.social #AHA25 #PrevCards #Lipidology

Kicking off the day!!! #AHA25

Red Vans on the floor MD/PhD 👟 still mine AHA, let’s go!!! #OldFriends #sneakerMonday #AHA25 @ahascience.bsky.social

Here’s Katherine, MS4, presenting on lipid-lowering therapy in patients with cardiometabolic disease at #CMHC2025. So cool. And she rocks! ⭐️

HAPPENING NOW!!!

Happy 12th anniversary to my A-1 Reviewer, Figure 1 screener, in-house counsel, and always my friend at the end of the day. Thank you for helping me see the humor in life. My favorite projects in life are with you. ❤️

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

Basic science is incredibly important and needs support! 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJ...

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

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.

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 @fitzgeraldkate.bsky.social @jwattsgroup.bsky.social @marcus-ruscetti.bsky.social

Can’t wait!!!!

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! www.umassmed.edu/medicine/edu...

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 👇👇🤩

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

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! www.umassmed.edu/medicine/res...

Can’t wait! 👇

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. t.co/YhpjML6zGR

👇Best talk this week!

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!

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

“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