Kathryn Muzzio (Class of 2019) was chosen for the AHA Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) for summer 2016. The University of Pittsburgh, in cooperation with the American Heart Association and the Vascular Medicine Institute, offers a stipend to support summer research experiences in cardiovascular sciences or brain ischemia research for undergraduates mentored by a University faculty member. The SURP is designed to expose students to cutting-edge basic and translational cardiovascular research. The program includes research experience, didactic core curriculum lectures, workshops in grant writing, networking opportunities with world leaders in cardiovascular sciences and medicine, training in bench-top and translational research methods and techniques, and opportunities to present in progress research results to colleagues and faculty. Muzzio's project is entitled “Alterations of the Cerebral Microvascular Circulation after Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest in Developing Rats." Professor Samuel M. Poloyac, PharmD, PhD is Mussio's faculty mentor for the program.
