Katelyn A. Bruno PhD

Katelyn A. Bruno, Ph.D., is an instructor of medicine and lab manager of the Translational Cardiovascular Disease Research Laboratory of DeLisa Fairweather, Ph.D., at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Bruno uses disease models to investigate the mechanisms of viral myocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and heart failure. She works on both basic molecular mechanisms of disease and clinical translational projects, including investigating new biomarkers to predict disease progression from myocarditis to DCM.

Currently, Dr. Bruno is leading an investigation on how collagen deficiency (such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) leads to increased myocarditis or other inflammatory diseases. Her newest research project involves assessing the mechanism by which cancer treatment drugs can cause myocarditis and cardiomyopathy in disease models, in order to prevent cardiomyopathy in oncology patients.