Kranias Chairs NIH Study Section
Litsa Kranias, PhD, Hanna Professor, Distinguished University Research Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Cell Biophysics and Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, has been appointed Chair of the Cardiac Contractility, Hypertrophy and Heart Failure (CCHF) study section of the National Institutes of Health. The appointment is until July 2017. Section chairs are chosen on the basis of their demonstrated leadership in the field, strong record of NIH funding and scholarly publications, broad scientific perspective, reputation for integrity and fairness, respect by the scientific review officers panel, willingness to support NIH review policies, and the ability to appropriately manage meetings, review presentations and summarize discussion. The CCHF Study Section reviews applications to the NIH that involve basic, applied and translational aspects of heart function, homeostasis and disease. Applications focus on contractile function and dysfunction, including studies of hereditary and acquired cardiac hypertrophy and failure, at levels ranging from molecular assemblies to the intact organ to translation of novel therapies to human.
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