Lab Members
(From left to right) Back row: Satoshi Itoh, Ernst Bos, Ian Connolly, Maarten Lijkwan, Jeff Velotta
Middle row: Beverly Bonfert, Sonja Schrepfer, Josh Troke, Stephanie Chang, Mayumi Yamada
Front row: Robert Robbins, Grant Hoyt, Ramin Beygui
Principal Investigator
Robert Robbins, MD, Chairman
Administrator and Technical Staff
Beverly Bonfert, Administrative Assistant
Michael Fischbein, MD, Laboratory Director
Josh Troke, Medical Student
Instructors
Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhDPostdoctoral Fellows
Satoshi Itoh, MD
Jeff Velotta, MD
Graduate Students
Stephanie Chang
Undergraduate Students
Katie Ransohoff
Julia Ransohoff
Lab Alumnae
| Nisco, Steve (Post) |
1993-94 | Myocardial preservation for cardiac transplant | Private Practice, Washington |
| Gandy, Kim (Post) |
1993-95 | Tolerance Induction through Hematopoietic Transplantation | Fellow, Stanford Pediatric Cardiac Surgery |
| Yuh, David (Post) |
1994-98 | In Utero Transplant Tolerance Induction & Fetal Cardiopulmonary Bypass | Assistant Prof. CT Surgery, Johns Hopkins |
| Poston, Robert (Post) | 1995-97 | ICAM; Using ex vivo gene therapy with antisense ologionucleotides | Assistant professor Univ. Maryland |
| Teranishi, Katsuhito (Post) | 1995-97 | Study of chronic cardiac rejection | Clinical Instructor, Nagoya University, Japan |
| Vriens, Patrick (Post) |
1997-98 | Induction of tolerance and Xenotransplantation, in vivo imaging for apoptosis | Faculty, Leiden University |
| Yamaguchi, Atushi (Post) | 1997-99 | Mechanism of Chronic Cardiac Rejection | Assistant Professor, University Jichi |
| Miniati, Douglas (Post) | 1998-01 | Effect of BCL-2 in Reperfusion Injury and Graft Coronary Artery Disease | Resident, General Surgery Stanford |
| Koransky, Mark (Post) | 1998-01 | Creation of completely autologous tissue engineered blood vessels, myoblast cell transplant | Resident, General Surgery, Stanford |
| Kown, Murray (Post) |
1998-01 | Apoptosis, acute rejection; Chronic Graft Vascular Disease | Resident, Stanford University General Surgery |
| Grunenfelder, Jurg (Post) | 1999-00 | Mouse and human embryonic stem cells | Clinical Instructor, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Murata, Seiichiro (Post) | 1999-02 |
Mechanism of Chronic Cardiac Rejection | Clinical Instructor, Jichi University Japan |
| Martens, Jasper (Pre, visiting medical student) | 2000-01 | Effect of Cyclosporine A on Graft Coronary Artery Disease | Resident, General Surgery, Univ. Leiden |
| Hammanien, Pekka (Post) | 2001-02 |
Chronic Lung Rejection | CT Surgical Specialist, Univ. Helsinki |
| Balsam, Leora (Post) | 2001-03 |
Role of Bone Marrow Stem Cells in Cardiac Repair | Resident, Stanford General Surgery |
| Tanaka, Masashi (Post) | 2001-04 |
Mechanism of Chronic Cardiac Rejection | Boston Scientific, CT Surgery, Stanford, Dean’s Fellow |
| David Tom Cooke, MD | 2001-03 | ||
| Cooke, David (Post) |
2002-04 |
Mechanism of Lung Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury and Cardiac Transplant Immunology | Mass General, Dept Health-Minority Support, ASTS |
| Kofidis, Theo (Post) |
2002- |
Myocardial Restoration Using Mouse and Human Embryonic Stem Cells, artificial tissue | CT Surgery, NIH |
| Swijnenburg, Rutger Researcher (Visiting medical student) | 2003-04 | Embryonic Stem Cell, Transplant Immunology | Self support (Medical Student, Univ Leiden) |
| Lebl, Darren Researcher (Pre–med student) |
2003-04 | Embryonic Stem Cell Gene Therapy | Stanford Med Scholars |
| Caffarelli, Anthony (Post) | 2003-04 | In vitro differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cell for cardiac repair | Thoracic Surgery Foundation, CT Surgery NIH |
| Eugenia V. Fedoseyeva, PhD, Senior Research Scientist | 2003-06 | ||
| Ingo Kutschka (Post) | 2004 | CT Surgery | University Hannover, Germany |
| Ahmad Y. Sheikh, MD (Post) |
2004-07 | Surgery Residency | Harvard |
| Marc Pelletier, MD, Assistant Professor (Technical Faculty and Staff) |
2004-07 | Director of Cardiac Surgery at the Atlantic Health Sciences Center | New Brunswick, Canada |
| Stephen L. Hendry, II, MD | 2004-06 | ||
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2006-07 | CT Surgery | Germany, Dresden |
| Koen van der Bogt (Visiting Researcher) | 2006 | Netherlands | |
| William (Bill) Stein, MD (Post) | 2006-08 | Surgery Residency | Washington, DC |
| Rutger-Jan Swijnenburg, MD (Post) | 2006-08 | Surgery Residency | Netherlands |
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