Angela Greenman, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Cardiology and a member of the Ralphe Research Group, received a Partnership Education and Research Committee (PERC) Postdoctoral Grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) in the amount of $19,719 for her project, “Modeling the Diabetic Heart in Engineered Heart Tissue.” Greenman proposes to address the critical need to expand pre-clinical diabetic heart models by manipulating human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) to derive diabetic-like engineered heart tissue (DM-EHT) from both male and female cell lines. Leveraging the EHT techniques in the Ralphe Research Group, she will generate a new model that will help better understand the earlier stages of diabetic heart disease with the goal of preventing its development in patients both locally and globally. The project will begin in January 2026 and end in January 2027.