CPVB COBRE investigator Corey E. Ventetuolo, MD, MS Awarded $3.7M for R01 Study

Congratulations to CPVB COBRE investigator Corey E. Ventetuolo, MD, MS (Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University), who has been awarded $3.7M R01 from the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute for proposed research on “Effects of DHEA in Pulmonary Hypertension (DIPH)”. This grant will include the first clinical trial of an endogenous sex hormone, dehydroepiandrosterone, in pulmonary arterial hypertension and will provide mechanistic insight into sexual dimorphism in cardiopulmonary phenotypes including right ventricular failure.