Rate My Professor Ryan Boudreau

Boudreau's career at the University of Iowa has been marked by substantial NIH and foundation support, including a 2025 seven-year $7.6 million NHLBI R35 Emerging Investigator Award unifying projects on SCN5A variants in cardiac sodium channels, microRNA-mRNA interactomes, and mitoregulin in heart failure, ischemia-reperfusion injury, arrhythmias, and cancer. He previously received a 2019 five-year $1.9 million NIH R01 for SCN5A studies, a 2016 three-year $438,657 Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust Young Investigator Award for RNA regulation in heart failure, and a two-year $200,000 American Heart Association Innovative Project Award. With over 5,700 citations per Google Scholar, notable publications include "Mitoregulin: A lncRNA-Encoded Microprotein that Supports Central Respiratory Complex Assembly" (Cell Reports, 2018), "Elucidation of transcriptome-wide microRNA binding sites in human cardiac tissues by Ago2 HITS-CLIP" (Nucleic Acids Research, 2016), "A common variant alters SCN5A–miR-24 interaction and associates with heart failure mortality" (Nature Communications, 2018), and "Short SCN5A Transcript Yields a NaV1.5 Fragment Promoting Mitochondrial Respiration" (Circulation Research, 2026).