Research Roundtable
If you are interested in presenting at a future Roundtable,
please contact Adrienne Mueller or Jay Rajadas.
Bibek Paudel, PhD
Lab of Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
"Using Electronic Health Records to Understand Personal and Public Health Risks"
Kenzo Ichimura, MD, PhD
Lab of Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD
"Vascular Adaptation of the Right Ventricle to an Increased Afterload in Pulmonary Hypertension"
Past Roundtables
December 10, 2020
Brian Wayda, MD
Lab of Kiran Khush, MD
"Impact and cost-effectiveness of using HCV+ donors for heart transplant: a simulation-based policy analysis"
Alexander Perino, MD
Lab of Paul J. Wang, MD
"Improving hard outcomes for heart failure patients with atrial fibrillation through rhythm control"
November 12, 2020
Asuka Eguchi, PhD
Lab of Helen Blau, PhD
"Role of Telomere Dysfunction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy"
Francesca Briganti, PhD
Lab of Mark Mercola, PhD
"RBM20 regulation: New opportunities for targeted treatment of DCM"
October 8, 2020
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"
Neil Kalwani, MD
Chief Fellow, Cardiovascular Medicine
Paul Heideinreich Lab
"Impact of Productivity Measurement and Practice Staffing on Cardiologist Productivity in the Veterans Health Administration"
September 10, 2020
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"
Shravani Pasupneti, MD
Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Mark Nicolls Lab
"Endothelial HIF-2α as a Key Endogenous Mediator Preventing Emphysema"
August 13, 2020
Soah Lee, PhD
Sean Wu Lab
"Contact Inhibition in Cardiomyocyte Proliferation"
Chengyi Tu, PhD
Joseph Wu Lab
"A human iPSC platform for tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy"
July 9, 2020
Fudi Wang, PhD
Elsie Ross Lab
"Predictive Accuracy of a Polygenic Risk Score–Enhanced Prediction Model for Peripheral Artery Disease"
Toru Ikezoe, PhD
Ronald Dalman Lab
"Hyperlipidemia and abdominal aortic aneurysms"
June 11, 2020
Vahid Serpooshan, PhD
Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
"Cardiovascular tissue bioprinting; From basic science to clinical research"
Jiannan Li, PhD
Peter Yang Lab
"Bridging soft-rigid tissues with hybrid bioprinting"
May 14, 2020
Mark Chandy, MD
Joseph Wu Lab
"Atlas of Exosomal microRNAs Secreted from Human iPSC-derived Cardiac Cell Types"
Emma Monte, PhD
Michael Snyder Lab
"Searching for a cardiomyopathy-stratifying phenotype using iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes"
February 13, 2020
Paul Bollyky, MD, DPhil
Associate Professor
School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
"Treating Biofilms with Bacteriophages"
Stephanie Lindsey, PhD
Alison Marsden Lab
"Origins and treatment of congenital heart disease: a combined experimental-computational approach"
January 16, 2019
Ngan Huang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
"A Biomaterials-based Approach for Vascular Regeneration"
Joscha Mulorz, MD
Philip Tsao Lab
"Accelerating effects of nicotine and e-cigarettes on experimental aortic aneurysms"
December 16, 2019
Paul Bollyky, MD, DPhil
Associate Professor
School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
"Treating Biofilms with Bacteriophages"
Xiaoming Ouyang, PhD
Joesph Wu Lab
"The Antitumor Effects of an Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-based Cancer Vaccine in Pancreatic Cancer"
November 14, 2019
Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
"Single-Cell Genomics in Cancer Immunotherapy"
Francesca Briganti, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mark Mercola Lab
"RBM20 Regulation in Healthy and Diseased Cardiomyocytes: A New Opportunity for Targeted Therapeutics"
October 17, 2019
Jayakumar Rajadas, PhD
Director, BioADD
"Therapeutic delivery of degrading disulfiram for the restoration of heart and brain functions affected by persistent Lyme disease"
Adam Bush, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shreyas Vasanawala Lab
"Simultaneous, Motion Robust Liver and Cardiac Iron Assessment using Rosette MRI"
September 19, 2019
Edgar Engleman, MD
Professor of Pathology and Medicine (Immunology and Rheumatology)
"Manipulating Myeloid Cells for the Treatment of Disease"
Ying Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nicholas Leeper Lab
"Clonally-expanding smooth muscle cells promote atherosclerosis by escaping efferocytosis and activating the complement cascade"
August 20, 2019
Paul Bollyky, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbiology and Immunology
"Targeting Hyaluronan Synthesis to Promote Heart Transplant Survival"
Hao Zhang, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joe Wu Lab
"Generation of Quiescent Cardiac Fibroblasts from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for in vitro Modeling of Cardiac Fibrosis"
June 12, 2019
Guillem Pratx, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology & Medical Physics
"Human-derived microphysiological tissue models: The next frontier for PET imaging"
Sangkyun Cho, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Wu Lab
"Mechanosensing by the lamina protects against nuclear rupture, DNA damage, and cell cycle arrest"
May 23, 2019
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"
Catherine Tcheandjieu, DVM, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
James Priest Lab, Tim Assimes Lab
"Fine mapping of the 9p21 locus for Coronary Artery Disease in the Million Veteran Program"
April 18, 2019
Helen Blau, PhD
Professor & Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology
"Short telomeres: hallmark of heart failure?"
William Goodyer, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sean Wu Lab
"Transcriptomic Profiling of the Developing Cardiac Conduction System at Single-Cell Resolution"
March 14, 2019
Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Associate Professor of Biology
"Coronary Artery Development and Regeneration"
Nadjet Belbachir, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Wu Lab
"Brugada syndrome: a new gene characterized using IPSC derived cardiomyocytes"
February 20, 2019
Ronald Dalman, MD
Walter Clifford Chidester and Elsa Rooney Chidester Professor of Surgery
"What can Diabetes Teach Us about Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease?"
Dan Li, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Marlene Rabinovitch Lab
"ALDH1A3 Regulates Chromatin Remodeling and Pro-proliferative Genes of Smooth Muscle Cells in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
January 16, 2019
Eric Appel, PhD
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
"Supramolecular Biomaterials for Prevention of Post-Operative Adhesion"
Eneko Axpe, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eric Appel Lab
"Solute diffusion in hydrogels"
December 12, 2018
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"
Ke Yuan, PhD, FAHA
Postdoctoral Fellow
Vinicio de Jesus Perez Lab
"Lung Pericytes act as Smooth Muscle Cell Precursors in Hypoxia Induced Pulmonary Hypertension"
Edward Lau, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Wu Lab
"Using gene-publication distance for disease annotation and target prioritization"
November 27, 2018
Michelle C. Odden, PhD
Associate Professor, Health Research & Policy
"Cardiovascular Prevention, Healthy Aging, and Heterogeneity in Risk"
Alice B. Popejoy, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carlos Bustamante Lab
"Beyond 'Other': Examining Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry in Clinical Genomics"
Siyeon Rhee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Kristy Red-Horse Lab
"Coronary angiogenesis and non-compaction cardiomyopathy"
October 10, 2018
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"
Jan W. Buikema, MD PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sean Wu Lab
"Wnt Signaling Induces Maturation Arrest and Massive Expansion of Beating Human iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes"
Joetsaroop Bagga
Medical Student (MS3)
Tomas Quertermous Lab
"The role of vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype in coronary artery disease"
September 12, 2018
PI: Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD, FAHA
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
"Combining Human–omics and Molecular Biology to Understand Insulin Resistance and Related Conditions"
Lei Tian, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joseph Wu Lab
"Single-Cell RNA-seq Identifies Molecular and Functional Signatures of Organ-Specific Endothelium"
Adelaida Palla, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Helen Blau Lab
"Novel Inflammatory Mediator that is Essential for Skeletal Muscle Regeneration"
August 22, 2018
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"
Kevin Brulois, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Pathology, Stanford
Eugene Butcher Lab
"Single Cell Transcriptomics of Blood Endothelial Cells"
Cheng-Yu Tsai, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford
Ronglih Liao Lab
"Stress hormones Linking Cigarette Smoking to Cardiac Dysfunction"
July 25, 2018
PI: Holden Maecker, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
"Assessing Human Immune Competence: Relation to Cardiovascular Risk"
Qing Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Michael Snyder Lab
"Crosstalk between GATA4 and Mitochondria During Cardiomyocyte Differentiation upon Exposure to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors"
Kwang-Min Kim, PhD
Basic Life Science Research Scientist
Jay Rajadas Lab
"Human 3D In Vitro Neurovasculature Model for the Application of Human Vascular Disease Study"
June 5, 2018
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"
Fahd Yunus, MD
Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford
Mintu Turakhia Lab
"Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Select Findings from the SMASH-AF Meta-Analysis Study Cohort"
Daniela Zanetti, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford
Erik Ingelsson Lab
"Studies of Urinary Biomarkers in the UK Biobank"