Fairweather Myocarditis Lab

08/21/2022

The lab went to Florida chapter of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando at Disney.

08/16/2021

We had a great time at the Florida Chapter of the American College of Cardiology held at Disney. Dani Beetler and Damian Di Florio presented a poster and I spoke at the new Translational Sciences session hosted by Katelyn Bruno, who is on the Program Committee and had introduced the idea of a Translational session to leadership. Great food, hotel and speakers!

08/06/2020

So proud of Damian Di Florio, my PhD student. He passed his qualifying orals! Yay!!!

06/13/2020

Lab is finally back after Covid! We celebrated everyone's birthday that had been missed. And welcomed a new member, Davide. I am the luckiest PI to work with such amazing people.

05/13/2020

Last week the Mayo Clinic COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma program was funded $26 million to determine safety of giving plasma to those who are sick. We submitted first paper with results today! Stay tuned- My lab is directly involved, Katelyn at the center of the project runs a team and 2 other lab members work on project. It is so rewarding to be trying to help people recover in this crisis.

04/03/2020

Go to USCOVIDplasma.org to see the convalescent sera project supported by the government to give life saving antibodies from people who have recovered from COVID-19 which is being coordinated by Mayo Clinic. I was asked to help build the database based on a registry for cardiovascular complications for COVID-19 that I wrote and Katelyn Bruno's amazing skills at REDCap were needed to build the forms. We've worked on it this week and it's just gone live. We will help with analysis also. We hope this therapy will save many, many lives!

Learn about an FDA-sponsored, Mayo Clinic-led expanded access treatment protocol using donated convalescent plasma to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

03/02/2020

Katelyn receiving recognition for her service to the Myocarditis Foundation!

02/18/2020

Great birthday celebration for Swi and Danielle and sad goodbye to Anneliese. We miss you and know you will succeed at this new opportunity!

01/26/2020

Great PhD recruitment weekend at Mayo Clinic Rochester for the Clinical Translational Science Track. Damian going over his poster on Cardio-oncology.

12/18/2019

Great lab outing eating frozen ice cream and watching frozen the movie!