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Researcher Explains Findings Related to Sudden Cardiac Death

Lecture Part of Asa Gray Series

Written By Victoria Lamanna '15, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (02/11/2015) - On Monday, Feb. 16, Brian Panama, Ph.D., research scientist of experimental cardiology at the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, will present a lecture on the “Role of the IRX5 Transcription Factor Gene in Sudden Cardiac Death,” as part of Utica College’s Spring Asa Gray Cultural Events Series.

More than 300,000 deaths each year in the United States are linked to sudden cardiac death (SCD) caused by arrhythmia, an abnormal heart rhythm. Panama will discuss the Iroquois homeobox-gene-5 (IRX5) transcription factor that is a particularly attractive candidate for inherited SCD syndromes.

Panama received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biochemistry from the University of California, and his doctorate and post-doctorate degrees in physiology from the University of Michigan and the University of Toronto.

Throughout his career, he has contributed to several professional publications and in 2012, received the First Place Gordon Moe Young Investigator Award at the Upstate New York Cardiac Electrophysiological Society Annual Meeting.
The Asa Gray seminar Series is sponsored by the Asa Gray Biological Society and is the longest running series at Utica College.

This event is free and open to the public. The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in the Donohue Auditorium in the Gordon Science Center.

For more information, visit www.utica.edu/asagray or call (315) 792-3028.

About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls over 4,000 students in 36 undergraduate majors, 27 minors, 21 graduate programs and a number of pre-professional and special programs.