Piero Anversa, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at New York Medical College, will present “Heart Failure and Cardiac Repair” Friday, March 15 at noon in Bennett Hall, Room 2020.
Dr. Anversa is the guest speaker for the department of physiology and biophysics seminar. It has long been assumed that when the heart is damaged after a heart attack, the heart muscle cells do not regenerate and the damage is permanent. Dr Anversa’s group reported the first evidence that, contrary to prior belief, heart muscle cells can multiply after a myocardial infarction and the development of heart failure and that adult stem cells isolated from mouse bone marrow could become functioning heart muscle cells when injected into a damaged mouse heart.