The American Heart Association (AHA) has awarded Benjamin L. Prosser, PhD, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, its Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award. <\/p>\n
The AHA gave him the award to recognize his work on how to improve cardiac function in heart failure patients, according to a July 26 press release. He presented it earlier this month at the Councils 2017 Basic Cardiovascular Sciences meeting in Portland, Oregon. <\/p>\n
His research demonstrated that by softening the internal cytoskeleton of heart cells in patients with heart failure, they could make their heart beats stronger. <\/p>\n
In other research published last by Prosser, he found that in a study on rodents, microtubules provide sufficient, but not excessive resistance in health heart muscle. The findings were published in Science. <\/p>\n
Prosser earned his bachelors degree in health and exercise from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his PhD in molecular medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in College Park. <\/p>\n
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