In keeping with Dean Robert M. Mentzer's vision for expanding the School of Medicine's research portfolio, the Office of the Dean has initiated a series of special seminars on interdisciplinary and translational research. The program will kick off at this Tuesday, May 23, with a seminar on translational cardiovascular research, "Reperfusion: A Major Fulcrum of Post-ischemic Injury and Salvage."

The talk will be presented by Jakob Vinten-Johansen, Ph.D., director of the Cardiothoracic Research Laboratory at Emory University's Carlyle Fraser Heart Center. Dr. Vinten-Johansen, a professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has concentrated his research in the mechanisms and treatment of surgical and non-surgical myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.

The seminar will be from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, May 23, in Karmanos Cancer Institute's 2 Wertz Auditorium. Lunch will be provided.