MADISON – Dr. Kurt W. Saupe, a gifted athlete and brilliant scientist passed away on Saturday, June 23, after a courageous 4 1/2 year battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. While at the university, he was an accomplished academician, most recently holding the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine. Though his lab focused on various areas of cardiovascular and physiological research, he was currently concentrating on two aspects of cardioregenerative medicine: studying the effects of diet and aging on resident progenitor cells in the heart, and a method of transferring therapeutic stem cells to injured myocardium.
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