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Riley Leonard, PhD

Riley Leonard, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dan Garry’s lab at the University of Minnesota. Riley’s graduate work focused on transcriptional regulation during cardiogenesis.  Additionally, he translated his studies towards the adult heart to focus on how developmental pathways can promote cardiac regeneration following acute injury.  His scientific experience includes developmental biology, transcriptional regulation, molecular biology, and bioinformatics.  As a Leducq Fellow, Riley’s focus will be on the molecular and cellular analysis of the exogenic organs in gene-edited pigs. Additionally, he will utilize single-cell and bioinformatic analyses to better understand porcine cardiogenesis.

Representative publications include:

Leonard, RJ., Zhao, Y, Eliason, S, Zimmerman, K, Batz, A,,, Hatcher, CJ., Martin, JF., Weiss, RM., Sweat, M, Li, X, and Amendt, BA. The miR-200 family modulates key cardiac transcription factors during cardiogenesis. Submitted. 

Leonard, RJ., Sweat, M, Eliason, S, Zimmerman, K, Batz, A, Kutschke, WJ., Weiss, RM., and Amendt, BA. Inhibition Of Mir-200c Abrogates Post-infarction LV Remodeling Following A Myocardial Infarct. Submitted.