The moon 🌕 from Monday (first picture) to this morning (last picture: super moon) My mom always says the moon in October is the most beautiful… she may be right 🤍 #supermoon2024

3 years ago my good friend Jonathan D. Moreno approached me about this crazy idea to fill a much needed gap in heart failure education (1/3).

Congratulations to KC Woulfe on receiving the the Across the Finish Line Award for her work in defining novel modulation of cardiac myofilament relaxation by histone deacetylase 8!

Congratulations to Matthew Taylor, MD, PhD on his recently published article in The New England Journal of Medicine, 'Phase 1 Study of AAV9.LAMP2B Gene Therapy in Danon Disease'

Happy holidays from the Peña’s lab … also check out our chemistree 🎄 Feeling so blessed to have these amazing kids ❤️❤️❤️ May Kumar Efren Montelongo Cisneros Sara Musani CU Denver Bioengineering

A well deserved team outing to celebrate grants, collaborations, papers and friendship 🤍🤍🤍 With one Smurf in the second pic 😆 Benjamin Kopecky Sue Gu Emma Louise Robinson, PhD Ron Vagnozzi Tim Lahm CU Denver Bioengineering CU Cardiology

It's #NationalMentoringMonth! We recognize Brisa Peña Castellanos, PhD, a Ludeman Center researcher + assistant research professor in the department of medicine at CU Anschutz Medical Campus who is dedicated to mentoring graduate + undergraduate students. medschool.cuanschutz.edu/center-for-wom… tellanos--phd

Congratulations Ben Kopecky, MD,. Sue Gu, MD, and Brisa Pena, PhD on receiving funding via the Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Pilot Project Award!

Proud to share that our lab, together with Anastacia (Tasha) Garcia, PhD ‘lab, won the Cardiology photo contest. Our AFM art is now in the Cardiology wall of fame ❤️❤️❤️ CU Cardiology CU Denver Bioengineering #ScienceArt #AFM #proudPI

Happy to share our most recent review “Sex-dependent pathophysiology and therapeutic considerations in right heart disease - Canadian Journal of Cardiology” This was part of a wonderful collaboration with Sue Gu Tim Lahm Benjamin Kopecky and Ron Vagnozzi onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-…

Such an important topic and an excellent panel by Dr. Jane Reusch, my dedicated mentee Tristan Cobb, and his primary mentor Dr. Brisa Peña. So proud of them! Ludeman Center #WomensHealthResearchDay2025 #mentorship #mentorshipmatters

First 5K race of the year to celebrate the Spring Equinox :) I got third place in my age category and 12 in the female category (26:55)… not bad for coming out from hibernation 😆 #5K

Editorial Board Member: Luisa Mestroni School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA. Research Interests: medical genetics and genomics; cardiomyopathies; clinical cardiology; heart failure

Announcing: the Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research scholarship for bioengineering undergrad students interested in doing women’s and/or sex differences research. Deadline May 1. For more information, please join us this April 22 at 10am in NC.

I’m so happy to share our last publication: Biocompatibility Assessment of an Injectable Carbon Nanotube-Functionalized Reverse Thermal Gel for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Applications | ACS Applied Bio Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… CU Denver Bioengineering CU Cardiology

Had an incredible time at the Youth Career Day organized by the Ludeman Center Grateful for the opportunity to give back and help spark curiosity 🤍

Thrilled to share that our cover art for our manuscript “Biocompatibility Assessment of an Injectable Carbon” has been selected and published in the ACS Applied Bio Materials! Congrats to Efren Montelongo Cisneros for capturing the essence of our work. ACS Publications #MyACSCover

Happy to share our latest editorial: Direct application of a drug delivery platform improves heart transplantation: On the path from innovation to implementation. This work was done together with my great collaborator Benjamin Kopecky jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…