The Stanford Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery's Human Biorepository Tissue Bank directs and maintains an extensive collection of 5,000 human cardiothoracic tissue samples obtained from consented patients. The purpose of our tissue bank is to create a comprehensive biorepository resource and have it available for approved studies to advance cardiovascular and pulmonary disease research and discoveries. We have collaborated with more than 30 collaborators and Stanford labs. Our goal is to promote research by providing cardiothoracic tissue samples to researchers and scientists across Stanford Medicine.
Current Collaborators
BioBank tissue used for research |
Publications, Research, Awards, and Grants |
Dr. Yasuhiro Shudo
Clinical Assistant Professor
LV muscle apical core from Heart transplant recipient | |
Left Atrium from Donor’s heart | Currently applying for grant as collaborator under possible international collaborative work project |
Dr. Edda Spiekerkoetter
Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine)
RV, LV, and septal wall from heart transplantation recipients |
(1) NIH/NHLBI 1R01HL158868- 01: Understanding and targeting molecular as well as structural events governing right ventricular adaptation, failure and recovery in pulmonary hypertension using repurposed drugs. PI: Edda Spiekerkoetter (2) AHA postdoctoral fellowship: Characterizing and Improving the Microvascular-Cardiomyocyte Interphase in Pressure-Overloaded Right Heart Failure. PI: Kenzo Ichimura Publications pending, 2022 |
RV, Septum and LV tissue from patients with pulmonary hypertension harvested at time of Heart-Lung Transplantation. RV, Septum and LV tissue from patients at time of heart transplantation with normal RV on echo as controls. |
R01HL158868-01 (PI: Spiekerkoetter) 7/1/2021 – 6/20/2025 NIH-NHLBI Understanding and targeting molecular as well as structural events governing right ventricular adaptation, failure and recovery in pulmonary hypertension using repurposed drugs Postdoctoral Award - Nr 903768 (PI:Ichimura) - 1/1/2022 – 12/31/2023 American Heart Association |
Dr. Joseph Woo
Chair & Norman E. Shumway Professor and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
Stanford Advanced Therapeutics for Heart Failure Research Laboratory
LV Tissue | Publications pending |
Dr. Joseph Wu
Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and the Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Dr. Tushar Desai
Associate Professor of Medicine; Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine and Stem Cell Institute
Lung transplant tissue | Publications pending, 2022 |