Image Bear Down 100: Reinventing heart care March 6, 2026 With the 100th anniversary of its “Bear Down” motto, the University of Arizona is looking back at remarkable moments in its history, including the Division of Cardiology and Sarver Heart Center roles in revolutionizing CPR and creating an artificial heart. Read more Image Czarina and Humberto Lopez gift will fund Sarver Heart Center research endowment July 24, 2025 A $3 million gift will establish the Czarina and Humberto Lopez Cardiovascular Research Endowment at the U of A Sarver Heart Center. The commitment is part of a $75 million fundraising goal for a cardiovascular research institute, pending ABOR approval. Read more Image Turning back the clock on heart failure: Drug candidate may expand options for difficult-to-treat heart disease May 21, 2025 A research team helmed by Sarver Heart Center Associate Director Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, illuminates a potential path toward reversing a type of heart disease that lacks good treatments. Read more Image Common drug shows promise against rare type of heart disease Feb. 17, 2025 An FDA-approved osteoporosis treatment might nudge a mutated protein back into shape and improve heart function, according to a study by University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson researchers. Read more Image Can the heart heal itself? New study says it can. Dec. 20, 2024 An international research team co-led by Sarver Heart Center Director Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD, shows that about 25% of patients with artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack. Read more Image Sarver Heart Center receives $2M in gifts toward founding of cardiovascular research institute Dec. 20, 2024 Ginny L. Clements and Tom Rogers have each committed gifts of $1 million to the Sarver Heart Center to create a new cardiovascular research institute. Read more Image Heart researchers stay ahead of the curve by learning cells’ secrets Feb. 21, 2024 In the Romanoski Lab, a graduate student simulates blood flow in a petri dish to learn why some people are more susceptible to heart disease. Read more Image Dr. Marvin Slepian follows where inspiration leads June 1, 2023 Curiosity guides the Regents Professor to bridge medicine, engineering and now the law to address unmet needs in research and mentorship. Read at UAHS Image Meet an Aspiring Cardiologist Targeting Heart Disease Through Research and Innovation Feb. 23, 2022 As Ike Chinyere, PhD, a University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson third-year medical student, breaks it down, biomedical research, clinical care and entrepreneurship fit together naturally. Read more Image Researchers Add Clarity to Role of Blood Pressure Medications in COVID-19 Infections Sept. 23, 2021 Sarver Heart Center researchers clarify the interaction between blood pressure medications and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Read at UAHS Image Taking ‘Do No Harm’ to Heart Feb. 4, 2020 By “reprogramming” a patient’s cells to create new heart muscle cells, Health Sciences MD/PhD Candidate Ike Royal Chinyere and his mentor Steven Goldman, MD, are finding ways to improve treatments for heart-failure patients. Read at UAHS
Image Bear Down 100: Reinventing heart care March 6, 2026 With the 100th anniversary of its “Bear Down” motto, the University of Arizona is looking back at remarkable moments in its history, including the Division of Cardiology and Sarver Heart Center roles in revolutionizing CPR and creating an artificial heart. Read more
Image Czarina and Humberto Lopez gift will fund Sarver Heart Center research endowment July 24, 2025 A $3 million gift will establish the Czarina and Humberto Lopez Cardiovascular Research Endowment at the U of A Sarver Heart Center. The commitment is part of a $75 million fundraising goal for a cardiovascular research institute, pending ABOR approval. Read more
Image Turning back the clock on heart failure: Drug candidate may expand options for difficult-to-treat heart disease May 21, 2025 A research team helmed by Sarver Heart Center Associate Director Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, illuminates a potential path toward reversing a type of heart disease that lacks good treatments. Read more
Image Common drug shows promise against rare type of heart disease Feb. 17, 2025 An FDA-approved osteoporosis treatment might nudge a mutated protein back into shape and improve heart function, according to a study by University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson researchers. Read more
Image Can the heart heal itself? New study says it can. Dec. 20, 2024 An international research team co-led by Sarver Heart Center Director Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD, shows that about 25% of patients with artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack. Read more
Image Sarver Heart Center receives $2M in gifts toward founding of cardiovascular research institute Dec. 20, 2024 Ginny L. Clements and Tom Rogers have each committed gifts of $1 million to the Sarver Heart Center to create a new cardiovascular research institute. Read more
Image Heart researchers stay ahead of the curve by learning cells’ secrets Feb. 21, 2024 In the Romanoski Lab, a graduate student simulates blood flow in a petri dish to learn why some people are more susceptible to heart disease. Read more
Image Dr. Marvin Slepian follows where inspiration leads June 1, 2023 Curiosity guides the Regents Professor to bridge medicine, engineering and now the law to address unmet needs in research and mentorship. Read at UAHS
Image Meet an Aspiring Cardiologist Targeting Heart Disease Through Research and Innovation Feb. 23, 2022 As Ike Chinyere, PhD, a University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson third-year medical student, breaks it down, biomedical research, clinical care and entrepreneurship fit together naturally. Read more
Image Researchers Add Clarity to Role of Blood Pressure Medications in COVID-19 Infections Sept. 23, 2021 Sarver Heart Center researchers clarify the interaction between blood pressure medications and SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Read at UAHS
Image Taking ‘Do No Harm’ to Heart Feb. 4, 2020 By “reprogramming” a patient’s cells to create new heart muscle cells, Health Sciences MD/PhD Candidate Ike Royal Chinyere and his mentor Steven Goldman, MD, are finding ways to improve treatments for heart-failure patients. Read at UAHS
![[University of Arizona research in 2010 involving Gordon Ewy, MD, and Karl Kern, MD, among others, shows that chest-compression-only CPR, with no mouth-to-mouth contact at all, produce better outcomes compared to conventional CPR]](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2026-03/Reinventing-heart-care_26_BDBU_Bidtellect_A4_MCDV090_2_CARD.jpg.webp?itok=QKSICfzo)
![[The Sarver Heart Center, in foreground, is part of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson on the U of A Health Sciences campus in Tucson north of Speedway Avenue. Plans for the cardiovascular research institute, in partnership with Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, include providing researchers with significant new resources to explore ways to maintain heart health and to prevent, diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease.]](/sites/default/files/styles/az_card_image/public/2025-07/SHC_04122024_Campus-drone-stills_0089_D_CARD.jpg.webp?itok=OMF7oB89)
