Valentina Lo Sardo
@valelosardo
Assistant Professor Cell and Regenerative Biology @UWMadison SMPH. Opinions are my own. http://crb.wisc.edu/staff/lo-sardo… http://www.losardolab.com
Thrilled to share the🥇paper from the lab @atvbahajournals. Here we continue to unravel the mysteries of the 9p21.3 CAD locus showing it drives VSMC transition into an osteochondrogenic state, promoting calcification. @clintomics @UWMadisonCRB ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/AT…
It was an absolute pleasure having @RobertoZoncu for our @UWMadisonCRB Distinguished Seminar Series! Great post-seminar dinner with @EpigeneticsYOW @GalmozziAndrea @EnginLaboratory. Thank you for visiting Roberto!

Thanks to @UWMadison SCRMC for highlighting our recent work on functional genomics of cardiovascular risk. 🫀🔬🧫 stemcells.wisc.edu/2025/06/04/uw-…
NOW HIRING! We're looking for an assistant professor/investigator to lead our metabolism-focused research program @MorgridgeMeta through this joint tenure track position with @UWMadison @BMC_UW. Ready to take the next step in your career? Join our team! morgridge.org/job-posting/as…
This is where you want to be in October if you love stem cells! Wonderful lineup of speakers. Consider coming to Greece for a lot of stem cells chat, networking and of course, amazing science!!
We have a fantastic group of speakers from the Stem Cell field. Don't miss the discounted early registration deadline of June 1st. Available trainee travel awards will be selected based on abstracts submitted before the June 1st deadline.
News: Infant with rare, incurable disease is first to successfully receive personalized gene therapy treatment nih.gov/news-events/ne…
Today, NIH announced a new initiative to expand innovative, human-based science while reducing the use of animals in research. This aligns with @US_FDA’s initiative to reduce testing in animals. bit.ly/4jYd4T2
Ready!! Really excited for the next few days!! #VascularDiscovery25

Happy to be part of this NAVBO Symposium on precision genomics (Tues, April 29, 2025). Excited to present on the epigenomic landscape of single vascular cells - development, regulatory networks, and ML prediction of variant effect, so much to talk about! members.navbo.org/calendar-of-ev…
CHOIR is now online @NatureGenet! CHOIR is a new clustering method for single-cell data that evaluates whether clusters represent statistically distinct cell populations. CHOIR scales to millions of cells and works with single-/multi-omic data of any type! nature.com/articles/s4158…
Very cool study! From variant to function. 👏👏👏 CXCL12 drives natural variation in coronary artery anatomy across diverse populations: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
The 9p21 risk locus — the first and most impactful CAD genetic risk factor in humans — drives VSMCs to adopt an osteochondrogenic state, promoting calcification @clintomics @valelosardo ahajrnls.org/3E59c3h
Exciting postdoc positions available! Join in applying iPSC-derived human brain tissue to dissect and therapeutically target the root causes of neurodegeneration. @sinaiBrain, @SinaiStemCell Competitive salary and Subsidized housing provided. Please retweet!
So happy to see the incredible work of @GalmozziAndrea @dylan_duerre and the entire Galmozzi lab finally out @NatMetabolism! I’m a proud colleague, partner and wife❤️! Congratulations! @UWMadison @uwsmph @uw_medicine
Excited to share that work from my PhD thesis is now available in @NatMetabolism! Here, we uncover a link between heme production, BCAA metabolism, and thermogenesis—implicating heme synthesis in #aging, #obesity, and #T2D. Link: nature.com/articles/s4225… A 🧵 (1/14)
UW–Madison 6th in national research ranking, surpasses $1.7 billion in research expenditures news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-6th…
I have mixed feelings about having another social media account, but I guess I want to try meeting my X contacts in another platform. Let’s see how it goes🙂. Follow 👇🏼

And we did it again this year…@UWMadisonCRB Halloween Costume Contest! “Cruella and (genetic variation in) Dalmatians”😂! Super team Lo Sardo lab!! Congrats to the winner lab @BlumLabWisc

What’s best than attending talks from an amazing line up of scientists paired with a wine testing in this amazing location? @mete_civelek ❤️🧬#gwas24 👏🏻to the organizers for this amazing conference!



