Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program
When
Where
Sarver Heart Center, Room 4137
1501 N Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724
Event Description
The Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program (MCRP) Friday Heart Conference presents a guest seminar by Matthew A Caporizzo, PhD, titled “Assessing diastolic mechanics in HFpEF with working myocardial slices.”
Presenter Details
Matthew A Caporizzo, PhD
Assistant professor
University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
Caporizzo received his PhD in Materials Science engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. He joined Yale E. Goldman's lab at the Perelman School of Medicine at the university, where he built an interferometric scattering microscope and developed an analytical Markov model to describe the molecular motility of processive dimers which he applied to the bundle-selective motor myosin X. In 2016, he joined Benjamin Prosser's lab as a postdoc and studied the contribution of the microtubule cytoskeleton to cardiac viscoelasticity. In 2022, Caporizzo joined the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine as an assistant professor where he is actively continuing his research on the molecular mechanisms that stiffen the failing heart and developing a platform to test new therapies that reverse pathological stiffening.