Renton will use the fellowship funding to continue studying the function of a particular protein, pannexin-1, that could hold the key to understanding obesity's effects on heart health.

Postdoctoral associate earned an American Heart Association fellowship to study how obesity affects pannexin-1 proteins in heart vessels, aiming to uncover new strategies to prevent coronary ...

DALLAS, Nov. 11, 2024 — Heart disease deaths related to obesity increased by 180% in the U.S. between 1999 and 2020, especially among middle-aged men, Black adults, residents of Midwestern ...