UT Southwestern Receives NIH Funding to Propel Human Heart Regeneration Research

Ongoing research at UT Southwestern Medical Center exploring the ability of human heart cells to regenerate after a heart attack or other cardiovascular event will be accelerated by a new award from the National Institutes of Health.

The five-year, $10.7 million program project grant will fund studies to investigate how the immune system regulates the heart’s ability to regenerate and respond to injury. The project builds upon more than a decade of research at UTSW into heart regeneration led by Hesham Sadek, MD., PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology at UTSW, that has resulted in a number of discoveries.

“If successful, this could lead to the discovery of new therapeutic targets for the treatment of heart failure in humans,” Dr. Sadek said.