The Wittek Research Foundation is a non-profit supporting research to transform the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
Joined December 2021
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26 Dec 2021
Happy to announce that our inaugural Scientific Advisory Board for the Wittek Research Foundation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy was held on 12/22 2021. Many thanks to Drs. Carolyn Ho, @jct_ucb, @sday_hcm, Christine Seidman and Beth McNally for their contributions #HCM (1/2).
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Jan 29
This amazing anti-ICE song by @lynzylab on IG needs to go viral.
Super talented.
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Jan 19
Right Now, Not just Americans but whole world can see it, what Carl Sagan saw back in 1995.
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10 Jan 2025
Flashback to 2020:
CA official: "If we ignore the science and put our head in the sand... we're not going to succeed together protecting Californians."
Trump: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch."
"I wish science agreed with you."
Trump: "I don’t think science knows, actually."
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20 Jun 2024
Fascinating study, with clues towards hope for those at high risk for Alzheimer’s, and possible Alzheimer’s in general, as we learn more about the interactions of the different APOe genes statnews.com/2024/06/19/alzh… via @statnews
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19 May 2024
If you’d like the original paper with the 2024 AHA/ACC Guidelines for HCM MANAGEMENT, see link below.
8 May 2024
2024 AHA/ACC/AMSSM/HRS/PACES/SCMR Guideline for the Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy #AHAJournals
ahajrnls.org/3UPk6Qd
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13 May 2024
Here are the primary results of #aficamten in @NEJM
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
#HeartFailure2024 #CardioTwitter
13 May 2024
The #SEQUOIA #HCM trial results are here - Placebo-controlled trial of #aficamten in #obstructive #HCM
3 presentations in 3 threads - follow along
This is the first presentation by @MartinMaronMD sharing the primary results
Follow along #CardioTwitter #HeartFailure2024
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Presented at #HeartFailure2024:
Among patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, treatment with aficamten led to a greater increase in peak oxygen consumption than placebo at 6 months. Full SEQUOIA-HCM phase 3 trial results: nej.md/3wmDzyl
ALT Graph showing the mean peak oxygen uptake values at baseline and at week 24
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18 May 2024
The 2024 #Myofilament Meeting in Madison, WI, has commenced with the Early Career Investigator Symposium, featuring extraordinary presentations. Over 200 participants worldwide have gathered to discuss and share the latest discoveries in #myofilament research.
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18 May 2024
The American Heart Association guidelines for HCM treatment have just been updated for 2024. Cynthia Burstein Waldman @Cynaburst does a great job of breaking down the changes for you in this article from her blog HCMbeat: facebook.com/share/2ueWxZmkK…
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24 Jan 2024
Can the media please stop saying that “people don’t want Biden?” He literally won New Hampshire by 30 points yesterday & got more votes than any presidential candidate in history in 2020. We do want President Biden & to suggest otherwise is deeply insulting & a lie.
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29 Jul 2023
Reading this article should be required for all clinical geneticists and genetic counselors. So many insights from the perspective of a large family dealing w/ devastating autosomal dominant Frontotemporal dementia nytimes.com/2023/07/20/magaz…
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7 Mar 2023
Important early data from @MasriAhmadMD and @Cytokinetcs about #aficamten in non-obstructive HCM at #ACC
7 Mar 2023
Here are the results of the #REDWOOD #HCM Cohort 4 trial. Follow along.
We enrolled 41 patients with non-obstructive HCM (nHCM) in an open label multi-center international phase II study
#CardioTwitter #ACC23
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7 Mar 2023
Exciting news from the LIVE-#HCM study at #ACC23. Kudos to @sday_hcm, Dr. Lampert@Yale and Michael J. Ackerman MD,PhD for bringing hope for a more normal and vigorous life to HCM patients !
6 Mar 2023
From its conception by @sday_hcm, Dr. Lampert @Yale, & me 10 yrs ago, the first results of LIVE-#HCM have been just released #ACC23. There was NO signal of increased risk among the 699 patients doing vigorous #exercise compared to the 961 who were less active!
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6 Oct 2022
via @NYTimes A fine tribute to Dr. Audrey Evans, whom I had the privilege of meeting once. At the age of 75, she still preferred to take the stairs rather than the elevator and I struggled to keep up with her! nytimes.com/2022/09/30/healt…
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13 Aug 2022
This important new study found a 10.9 percent gain in HCM genetic diagnoses that would have been missed in patients with suspected genetic cardiomyopathy or arrhythmia jamanetwork.com/journals/jam… genomeweb.com/molecular-diag…
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10 Aug 2022
Bohemian rhapsody for postdocs:
Is this a real job?
Or more like a PhD?
Caught in short contracts
No chance of stability
Open your eyes
Look up to PIs and see
I'm just a postdoc
I get no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Stress is high
Pay is low
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10 Aug 2022
It’s time this loud and sometimes angry #womeninstemm threw in her 2 cents to the @NHMRC investigator grant gender equity discussion. First, it’s bloody brilliant the data has been analysed, modelled and some BIG options put forward. High five to everyone who helped do that /1
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11 Jul 2022
Happy to share my @NatureCVR Comment with @sday_hcm @PennCardiology on @US_FDA approval of #mavacamten, a first-in-class myosin modulator. We discuss everything from pharmacological mechanisms to clinical trial results! 🫀 nature.com/articles/s44161-0…
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