Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health

The Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health (VCCBH) is an NIH funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) that provides a platform to build sustainable research programs built on the exceptional potential of early career faculty.  We are studying the vital health problems facing society: cardiovascular disease, stroke and cognitive impairment.

Co-Director Corner

We are just beginning our fifth year of NIH funding with great momentum. As summer takes hold in Vermont, the call is out for funding our $180,000 Fire Grant Awards! Our funded early career faculty are publishing in major journals like American Journal of Kidney Disease, Circulation Research, JCI, Science Reports, and Journal of Physical Chemistry on topics ranging from cerebral blood flow to determining amyloid fibril structures using experimental constraints from Raman spectroscopy.  We have expanded our Research Cores to include new state-of-the-art instrumentation, which will provide VCCBH researchers access to improved deep-brain imaging in live animals and multiplex protein biomarker measurements in human and mouse models of human disease! We are currently lining up speakers slated for our Monthly Conference and Journal Club to begin September 2025. Our Annual Symposium will be held June 12-13, 2025. We hope to see you there!

-Mary & Mark

Save the dates!

Annual VCCBH Symposium
June 12th & 13th, 2025

Registration: Upcoming
Final schedule: Pending

Recent News

Posted May 15, 2024

John Salogiannis, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, and members of his lab team—Allison (Morrissey) Langley, lab technician and Ph.D. candidate in cellular, molecular, and biomedical sciences; Sarah Abeling-Wang, lab research technician; and Erinn Wagner, UVM undergraduate biology major—have their first preprint*: “Movement of the endoplasmic reticulum is driven by multiple classes of vesicles marked by Rab-GTPases.” The team’s research is supported by an NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA or R35) for early-stage investigators.

Posted May 2024

Katharine Cheung, M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc., interim director of the UVM Center on Aging, associate director for research, and assistant professor of medicine, and her mentee, medical student Susanna Schuler ’26, presented their research findings at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine State of the Science meeting on March 23 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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