Mentors and Co-Mentors

Genetics and genomics

Russ Altman

Bioengineering

Sequence analysis; bioinformatics; pharmacogenomics

Thomas Quertermous

Cardiovascular Medicine

Genetic basis of atherosclerosis; apelin-APJ pathways; cellular and genetic mouse models

Euan Ashley

Cardiovascular Medicine

Translational myocardial biology; whole genome/exome sequencing; networks; apelin-APJ signaling

Cellular signaling

Brian Kobilka

Molecular Physiology

Adrenergic receptor structure and function

Ricardo Dolmetsch

Chemical & Systems Biology

Calcium channels; calcium signaling; cardiac hypertrophy and angiogenesis

Daria Mochly-Rosen

Chemical & Systems Biology

PKC and cardiac function

James Spudich

Biochemistry

Structure and function of molecular motors in vitro and in vivo

Molecular Imaging

Sanjiv Gambhir

Radiology

Molecular imaging

Physiology and phenotyping

Daniel Bernstein

Pediatric Cardiology

Adrenergic signaling in cardiomyopathy

Euan Ashley

Cardiovascular Medicine

Translational myocardial biology; whole genome/exome sequencing; networks; apelin-APJ signaling

Cardiac development and regeneration

Thomas Quertermous

Cardiovascular Medicine

Genetic basis of atherosclerosis; apelin-APJ pathways; cellular and genetic mouse models

Joe Wu

Cardiovascular Medicine

iPSCs for cardiac disease modeling, drug screening, and cell therapy; cardiac molecular imaging of stem cells; cardiac genomics

Irving Weissman

Pathology

Phylogeny and developmental biology; progenitor cell therapeutics in heart failure

Ching Pin Chang

Cardiovascular Medicine

Mechanisms of cardiac development

Pilar Ruiz-Lozano

Pediatric Cardiology

Mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy mediated by APJ

Outcomes research and population science

Mark Hlatky

Health Sciences Research

Clinical outcomes; cardiovascular health services; cost-effective analysis

Hannah Valantine

Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardiac transplantation and transplant arteriopathy; insulin-resistance in transplant arteriopathy

Co-Mentors (Clinical)

Michael Fowler

Cardiovascular Medicine

Heart Failure; pre-heart transplant

Paul Wang

Cardiovascular Medicine

Electrophysiology; arrhythmia