There’s a critical gap in cardiovascular health: patients regularly have heart attacks or strokes despite receiving treatments to lower their cholesterol and blood pressure.
Wei-Qi Wei, MD, PhD, associate professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been awarded a four-year, $3.4 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health to study this residual risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and identify any existing drugs that might help lower this risk.
Co-leading the effort with Wei will be Qiping Feng, PhD, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology. Others on the project include Quinn Wells, MD, PharmD, MSCI, MSc, Jonathan Schildcrout, PhD, Nancy Cox, PhD, Mike Stein, MBChB, and Ran Tao, PhD
Congratulations to the team! Read more in VUMC News.