Dr. Reilly has a track record in unique mechanistic patient oriented research (POR) and mentorship at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). His Cardiometabolic Research Program is dedicated to human translational and genomic studies of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and its risk factors. His program is based in Penn's Cardiovascular and Translational Institutes and highly integrated into the training missions sponsored by Penn's Clinical and Translational Science Award. This provides an outstanding environment for translational POR and for mentoring K24 trainees. He has had a track record of continuous NIH funding, mentorship of multiple physician scientists in translational POR, and numerous high-impact translational publications led by over a dozen trainees, several of whom have established their own independent POR careers. Dr Reilly recognizes the challenges to incorporating basic science and cutting edge translational technologies into academic careers in POR. He is committed to training young clinical investigators in these approaches and mentoring them to independent careers in POR. In this application, he proposes to (1) augment his scientific and mentoring skills and devote more time to mechanistic POR, (2) provide increased time and structure in mentoring new clinical investigators in the conduct of mechanistic POR, and (3) pursue new innovative POR in order to provide a unique training environment and POR framework for mentoring young clinical investigators. Although recent genomic discoveries have identified novel associations with ASCVD and its risk factors, the key challenge remains in demonstrating how these loci cause disease and can be advanced for clinical application and therapeutic targeting. The proposed K24 research will recruit healthy humans to generate induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from adipose tissue biopsies. The iPS cells will be used to address pilot studies tissue-specific functional studies of recent genomic discoveries for heart disease, (a) SORT1, a novel LDL-cholesterol and myocardial infarction locus, in regulation of hepatocyte lipoproteins and, (b) ABO, a locus for risk endothelial risk biomarkers and myocardial infarction, in regulation of endothelial secreted proteins. Dr Reilly will dedicate 40% effort to this K24 proposal (5% to augment his mentorship and POR skills; 10% to the research proposal; and 25% to mentoring new investigators) through reduction in administrative and clinical duties. The K24 award provides the ideal mechanism to expand his mechanistic POR program while simultaneously dedicating significant effort to train young clinical investigators.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Type
Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24)
Project #
5K24HL107643-05
Application #
8842182
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZHL1-CSR-X (F1))
Program Officer
Carlson, Drew E
Project Start
2011-05-13
Project End
2016-04-30
Budget Start
2015-05-01
Budget End
2016-04-30
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
2015
Total Cost
$165,806
Indirect Cost
$12,282
Name
University of Pennsylvania
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
042250712
City
Philadelphia
State
PA
Country
United States
Zip Code
19104
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Westerterp, Marit; Fotakis, Panagiotis; Ouimet, Mireille et al. (2018) Cholesterol Efflux Pathways Suppress Inflammasome Activation, NETosis, and Atherogenesis. Circulation 138:898-912
Ferguson, Jane F; Xue, Chenyi; Gao, Yuanfeng et al. (2018) Tissue-Specific Differential Expression of Novel Genes and Long Intergenic Noncoding RNAs in Humans With Extreme Response to Evoked Endotoxemia. Circ Genom Precis Med 11:e001907
Zhang, Hanrui; Shi, Jianting; Hachet, Melanie A et al. (2017) CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing in Human iPSC-Derived Macrophage Reveals Lysosomal Acid Lipase Function in Human Macrophages-Brief Report. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 37:2156-2160
Zhang, Hanrui; Reilly, Muredach P (2017) LIPA Variants in Genome-Wide Association Studies of Coronary Artery Diseases: Loss-of-Function or Gain-of-Function? Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 37:1015-1017
Saleheen, Danish; Zhao, Wei; Young, Robin et al. (2017) Loss of Cardioprotective Effects at the ADAMTS7 Locus as a Result of Gene-Smoking Interactions. Circulation 135:2336-2353
Zhang, Hanrui; Hinkle, Christine C; O'Neill, Sean M et al. (2017) Synergistic Modulation of Inflammatory but not Metabolic Effects of High-Fat Feeding by CCR2 and CX3CR1. Obesity (Silver Spring) 25:1410-1420
Zhang, Hanrui; Reilly, Muredach P (2017) Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Macrophages for Unraveling Human Macrophage Biology. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 37:2000-2006
Qian, Jing; Nunez, Sara; Kim, Soohyun et al. (2017) A score test for genetic class-level association with nonlinear biomarker trajectories. Stat Med 36:3075-3091
Chen, Siying; Nunez, Sara; Reilly, Muredach P et al. (2017) Bayesian variable selection for post-analytic interrogation of susceptibility loci. Biometrics 73:603-614

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