KSLA12 - Hosted by LSUHS, LSU Tech and ULM, Biomedical Reseach And Industry Day (BRAID) attracted students who are interested in furthering careers in biomedical fields and to learn more about non-academic jobs in the industry.
The Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences (CCDS) is one of four Centers of Excellence on the LSU Health Shreveport campus. Cardiovascular disease research represents a considerable strength of the LSU Health Shreveport campus, with CCDS faculty receiving a sizable portion of the extramural funding to LSU Health Shreveport. In addition, the CCDS provides an excellent environment to promote trainee and faculty development.
Our NIH-funded Cardiovascular Undergraduate Research Initiative fOr Underrepresented Students (CURIOUS) program provides minority college students with hands-on training in cardiovascular research and exposure to a variety of science career options at LSU Health Shreveport. The intramural Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships couple with an NIH-funded Multidisciplinary Training in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology (MTCP) T32 Program to provide an excellent training environment to prepare trainees for careers in cardiovascular biomedical research. The NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Redox Biology and Cardiovascular Disease provides significant funding to early career CCDS faculty seeking their first R01 award. In addition, the CCDS provides a variety of intramural research grants for training, project development, and collaborative research opportunities. Together with the COBRE grant, the CCDS houses multiple state-of-the-art core facilities, such as the Animal Phenotyping and Histology Core, the Redox Molecular Signaling Core, the Surgical Models Core, the Virus Production Core, and the Electrophysiology Core. To enhance cardiovascular care in the local community, the CCDS supports a variety of cardiovascular clinical trials for new devices and drugs, especially for the treatment of acute coronary syndrome, heart failure, and cardiomyopathy. In addition, the CCDS provides continuing medical education for local physicians through our annual ArkLaTex Cardiology Conference and hosts an annual Heart Health Day to provide the local community with free health screenings, physician consultations, and educational activities for adults and children.

A. Wayne Orr, PhD
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Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences
LSU Health Shreveport
1501 Kings Hwy
P.O. Box 33932
Shreveport, LA 71130-3932
Email: CCDS@lsuhsc.edu
LATEST NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
KSLA 12 - The Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences hosted their annual Heart Health Day on October 1, 2022. More than 100 people attended the event to partake of free screenings and heart health information for the community.
KTBS 3 - Dr. Paari Dominic, a cardiac electrophysiologist and professor at LSUHS, says being screened for heart disease is extremely important. That is why we are offering a free community health fair on October 1 with free cholesterol and diabetes screenings and more.
A massive new study spotlights the toll methamphetamine use may take on heart health, suggesting men, people with kidney disease and those with high blood pressure are especially at risk. While researchers don't fully understand how meth use increases the risk for heart problems, they do know it creates a lot of stress on the body, shared Dr. Chris Kevil, LSUHS Vice Chancellor for Research.
This prestigious award, sponsored by the American Heart Association’s Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB Council), recognizes investigators in the formative years of their faculty careers who have the potential to become future leaders in cardiovascular research.