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Manuel Chiusa, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Manuel Chiusa
Professional Bio
Manuel Chiusa, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He received an MS degree in physiology/pathology at University of Parma, Italy, followed by a PhD in biomedical science at Bern University Hospital in Switzerland. During his PhD, he developed an interest in cardiovascular pathology and applied electrophysiology and molecular biology techniques to delve into the mechanisms of cardiomyocyte function in health and disease. In 2011 Dr. Chiusa joined the laboratory of Dr. C. Lim in the Division of Cardiology at Vanderbilt. During this time, he investigated the biomechanosensor properties of adult heart, neonatal cardiomyocytes, and myofibroblast. His main interest was to determine how biomechanosensors regulates cellular and cardiac hypertrophy and, in turn, fibrotic responses. In 2017 Dr. Chiusa became a staff scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Pozzi, and he has continued to use genetic as well as pharmacological approaches to further study how fibrotic responses are regulated in order to devise more effective and more selective anti-fibrotic therapies.

Education

PhD - Bern University Hospital, 2011

Fellowship - Cardiology - Vanderbilt University, 2014

Fellowship - Nephrology - Vanderbilt University, 2017

Contact

Email 
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org 
Address 
777 Preston Research Building 
2220 Pierce Ave 
Nashville, TN 37232-6307

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1161 21st Ave S
Nashville, TN 37232

(615) 322-5000

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