Research Roundtable

Alice Popejoy, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Biomedical Data Sciences

Lab of Carlos Bustamante, PhD

"Diversity Measures and [Mis]Classification in Research and Precision Medicine"

Dilip Thomas, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cardiovascular Institute

Lab of Joseph Wu, MD, PhD

"Elucidating the Effects of Spaceflight on Engineered Heart Tissues"

Christopher Madl, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology

Lab of Helen Blau, PhD

"Engineering Cellular Microenvironments to Probe the Dynamics of Mechanotransduction"

Bibek Paudel, PhD

Lab of Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD

"Using Electronic Health Records to Understand Personal and Public Health Risks"

Brian Wayda, MD

Lab of Kiran Khush, MD

"Impact and cost-effectiveness of using HCV+ donors for heart transplant: a simulation-based policy analysis"

Asuka Eguchi, PhD

Lab of Helen Blau, PhD

"Role of Telomere Dysfunction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy"

Anthony Crimarco, PhD

Postdoc, School of Medicine
Christopher Gardner Lab

"Results of a Clinical Trial Comparing the Effect of Consuming Plant-based Meats vs. Animal Meats on TMAO and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among Generally Healthy Adults"

Hesam Movassagh, PHD

Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research
Kari Nadeau Lab

"A Non-redundant Role for Particulate Pollutants in Dysregulation of Circulating Monocyte"

Soah Lee, PhD

Sean Wu Lab

"Contact Inhibition in Cardiomyocyte Proliferation"

Fudi Wang, PhD

Elsie Ross Lab

"Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score–Enhanced Prediction Model for Peripheral Artery Disease"

Vahid Serpooshan, PhD

Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

"Cardiovascular tissue bioprinting; From basic science to clinical research"

Mark Chandy, MD

Joseph Wu Lab

"Atlas of Exosomal microRNAs Secreted from Human iPSC-derived Cardiac Cell Types"

Paul Bollyky, MD, DPhil

Associate Professor
School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

"Treating Biofilms with Bacteriophages"

Ngan Huang, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

"A Biomaterials-based Approach for Vascular Regeneration"

Paul Bollyky, MD, DPhil

Associate Professor
School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Microbiology and Immunology

"Treating Biofilms with Bacteriophages"

Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

"Single-Cell Genomics in Cancer Immunotherapy"

Jayakumar Rajadas, PhD

Director, BioADD

"Therapeutic delivery of degrading disulfiram for the restoration of heart and brain functions affected by persistent Lyme disease"

Edgar Engleman, MD

Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology)

"Manipulating Myeloid Cells for the Treatment of Disease"

Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbiology and Immunology

"Targeting Hyaluronan Synthesis to Promote Heart Transplant Survival"

Guillem Pratx, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology & Medical Physics

"Human-derived microphysiological tissue models: The next frontier for PET imaging"

Themistocles (Tim) Assimes, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, and of Health Research and Policy

"Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease in the Million Veteran Program"

Helen Blau, PhD

Professor & Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology

"Short telomeres: hallmark of heart failure?"

Kristy Red-Horse, PhD

Associate Professor of Biology

"Coronary Artery Development and Regeneration"

Ronald Dalman, MD

Walter Clifford Chidester and Elsa Rooney Chidester Professor of Surgery

"What can Diabetes Teach Us about Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease?"

Eric Appel, PhD

Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

"Supramolecular Biomaterials for Prevention of Post-Operative Adhesion"

Jayakumar Rajadas, PhD

• Founding Director, Biomaterials and Advanced Drug Delivery Laboratory, Stanford Medicine
• Adjunct Full Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF

"Survival of the Sickest: Pharmaceutical interventions to improve transplanted stem cells and solid organ survival"

Michelle C. Odden, PhD

Associate Professor, Health Research & Policy

"Cardiovascular Prevention, Healthy Aging, and Heterogeneity in Risk"

PI: Eugene Butcher, MD

Klaus Bensch Professor in Pathology

"High dimensional single cell profiling of blood vascular endothelial cells: endothelial origins and differentiation in immune angiogenesis"

PI: Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD, FAHA

Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

"Combining Human–omics and Molecular Biology to Understand Insulin Resistance and Related Conditions"

PI: Michael Snyder, PhD

Stanford B. Ascherman Professor and Chair of Genetics and Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine

"Personal Profiles with Wearables"

PI: Holden Maecker, PhD

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University

"Assessing Human Immune Competence: Relation to Cardiovascular Risk"

PI: Thomas Quertermous, MD

William G. Irwin Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford Department of Medicine

"Mechanisms of Coronary Artery Disease Risk: Lessons from the GWAS"