Congratulations are in order for Dr. Elrod as he was named Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC)! John has been taking Temple by storm with top notch publications in high impact journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, and JMCC… just to name a few. John has built a highly collaborative and innovative lab and plans on bringing this culture to the CVRC at large. Furthermore, John has an extraordinary record of mentoring students and postdoctoral fellows who have since had successful careers in academia and in industry. This was also reflected when he won the Lewis Katz School of Medicine Educational Experience Award for 2022. Great things are to come to the CVRC with John at the helm!

Congratulations John, this was well deserved!

P.S. No, John did not write this about himself.