About Us
The Center for Heart and Vascular Research has a vision to be the hub that facilitates cutting-edge research in cardiovascular health and disease.
To be a world-class leader in heart and vascular research excellence.
Facilitate collaborative basic, translational and clinical research that develops the team into an innovative and leading heart and vascular research center and improves the health of our communities.
- Develop and apply multidimensional approaches to examine the mechanisms whereby the heart and vasculature respond to injury or stress.
- Apply the knowledge gained to develop diagnostic tools, test therapeutic strategies, and conduct health services research that prevents, slows, or reverses heart and vascular disease progression.
- Disseminate our results to scientific, medical, and general communities. Educate and mentor the next generation of scientists.
Build Capacity: Infrastructure that facilitates the co-localization of clinicians and non-clinician biomedical researchers with diverse expertise to promote further cross-pollination of research interests and perspectives.
Tangible Support: Access to resources and support to explore new questions, implement new approaches, and integrate expertise needed to take research to the next level.
Leadership
Rebekah L. Gundry, PhD, FAHA
Stokes-Shackleford Professor of Physiology
Chair, UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Director, UNMC Center for Heart and Vascular Research
Scientific Director, UNMC Mass Spectrometry Core
Iraklis Pipinos, MD
Professor, UNMC Department of Surgery
Division of Vascular Surgery
Vice-Chair of Research, Department of Surgery
Chief of Vascular Surgery, Nebraska/Western Iowa VA Medical Center
Internal Advisory Committee
Kenneth W. Bayles, PhD
Professor, UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Vice Chancellor for Research, UNMC
Founding Director, Center for Staphylococcal Research
Operations Committee
Matthew C. Zimmerman, PhD
Vice Chair of Education, UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Professor
Director, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences
Director, Master of Science in Medical Physiology Program
Director, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Core and the Physiological Environment Research Core Facility
Bryan T. Hackfort, PhD
Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Director, three research cores
Administration
