Kranias Receives Research Achievement Award
Evangelia (Litsa) Kranias, PhD, Hanna Professor and director of cardiovascular biology in the department of pharmacology and cell biophysics, will be honored at the XXXIV Annual Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) North American Section, held May 12-15 in Miami, Fla.
At the meeting, Kranias will receive the ISHR Peter Harris Research Achievement Award and present a talk titled "Calcium Circuits in the Heart: A Matter of Life or Death.
The Peter Harris Research Achievement Award recognizes a prominent investigator with a sustained and distinguished record of major scientific achievements in the field of cardiovascular research that have had a major impact on our understanding and/or treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Kranias is a member of the UC Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute.
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