December 2016

Congrats to Dr. Arun Sharma (former PhD grad student) who was named the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science

Listen to Dr. Wu's lecture to the FDA on You Tube

Congratulation to Xulei Qin for receiving a 3-year AHA Scientist Development Grant

September 2016

Congratulation to Kazuki Kodo for publishing his iPSC modeling of LVNC in Nature Cell Biol. Kazuki is now an Assistant Professor at Keio University

August 2016

Congratulations to Elena Matsa for publishing a paper on iPSC-heart cells for precision medicine in Cell Stem Cell

Congratulations to Patricia Nguyen for publishing a review on stem cell therapy for heart failure in JAMA Cardiology

Congratulations to Won Hee Lee for receiving the AHA Scientist Development Grant

Congratulations to Sang Ging Ong for receiving NIH K99/R00 Award

June 2016

Dr. Wu interviewed in the Translational Scientist magazine on using iPS cells to predict cardiotoxicity

Congratulations to Ilanit Itzhaki for receiving the AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

This man might make you a new heart: Dr. Joseph Wu interviewed at Ozy Media, an international online magazine that focuses on news, arts, and culture

Congratulations to Elena Matsa for receiving New Investigator Travel Award at the 2016 AHA BCVS Scientific Sessions

Congratulations to Chun Liu for receiving the AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

May 2016

Congratulations to Karim Sallam for receiving the American Heart Association Fellow to Faculty Award

April 2016

Congratulations to Angela Zhang (undergrad at Harvard) who will be attending MD/PhD program at Stanford School of Medicine

Congratulations to Haodi Wu for receiving a NHLBI PCBC Jump Start Award. His project is titled "Dissecting the Genome-wide Epigenetic Signature of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in iPSC-CM Model"

Using iPSCs to Identify Chemotherapy-Induced Heart Failure (Nature Medicine”)

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This paper was also highlighted in a Nature Review Cardiology editorial

March 2016

Congratulations to Michael Nguyen who will be attending University of Wisconsin School of Medicine

Congratulations to Vittavat (Tor) Termglinchan for matching into Stanford Medicine Residency program

February 2016

Article by John Ahrens on “State of the Heart Tissue Models” published in the Translational Scientist magazine

Congratulations to Kitch Wilson for receiving K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Award

January 2016

Congratulations to undergraduate students Eric Marceau and Ates Akgun for receiving the 2016 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program grants