Faculty

DeLisa Fairweather, Ph.D.

Clinical Studies

Collection of Adipose Tissue for Regenerative Medicine Research in Cardiovascular Disease Jacksonville, Fla.
The purpose of this study is to obtain adipose tissue from patients undergoing vascular surgery where EVs can be isolated from the fat and used for research purposes to examine their effect on inflammation and remodeling in culture and in animal models. The samples will immediately be processed to obtain EVs for research purposes - this is not a biorepository.
Sex and Age Differences in Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Jacksonville, Fla.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether serum biomarkers and comorbidities differ between subjects with hEDS/HSD vs. other non-hypermobile EDS subtypes and whether sex and/or age differences exist, and to determine whether serum biomarkers and comorbidities differ between subjects with hEDS vs. HSD and whether sex and/or age differences exist.

sST2/IL1R in Diagnosis and Treatment of Fulminant Myocarditis and Myopericarditis Rochester, Minn.
If serum sST2 predicts heart failure (HF) in several cardiovascular disorders, in myocarditis patients.