Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science

Novel Transgenic/Chemogenetic Models of Oxidative Stress in the Cardiovascular System
Thomas Michel, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School
Senior Physician in Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Scaling Tissue Engineering Towards Whole Organ Biofabrication
Mark Skylar-Scott, PHD
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Sanford Burnham Prebys

Gootter-Jensen Foundation Lecture in Sudden Cardiac Death

Tackling the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Challenge
Mina Chung, MD
Professor of Medicine in the Section of Pacing and Electrophysiology, The Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart & Vascular Institute, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, at Cleveland Clinic

Leveraging Real-World Observations to Inform Cardio-Oncology Investigations
Daniel Addison, MD
Associate Professor (w/ tenure)
Director, CV Translational Research
Audre and Bernard Rapport Chair in CV Research
Associate Director, Survivorship & Outcomes Research at UTSWCCC
UT Southwestern

Bridging Bench to Bedside at the Cardio-Immune and Cardio-Oncologic Interface
Han Zhu, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford

Brain-Body Communication in Cardiovascular Health and Disease | Video (SUNet ID required)
Filip Swirski, PhD
Professor | Medicine, Cardiology, Professor | Diagnostic, Molecular And Interventional Radiology, Professor | Immunology & Immunotherapy
Mount Sinai

CANCELED
Novel, Small, Short, Young – Microproteins in the Human Heart & Single Cell Genomics for Precision Medicine in Heart Failure
Norbert Hübner, PhD
Group Leader, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Heart Failure and CV Senescence – Now Linking to the Brain | Video
Peter Liu, MD
Director, Cardiac Function Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Professor, University of Ottawa
Professor, University of Toronto

New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to Decode Endothelial Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Disease | Video
Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research) of Surgery (Vascular Surgery)
Stanford

New Discoveries in Mitochondrial Metabolism | Video
John W. Elrod, PhD, FISHER
W.W. Smith Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine; Director, Aging + Cardiovascular Discovery Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine

Coronary and Cardiac Lymphatic Vessels in Heart Development and Regeneration | Video (SUNet ID required)
Ching (Ellen) Lien, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine
Director of the Heart Regeneration Research Laboratory, in the Department of Surgery at CHLA

Role of Adventitial Fibroblast in Atherosclerosis | Video (SUNet ID required)
Paul Cheng, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford

Therapeutically Targeting the Heart-Brain Axis for Cardiac Arrhythmias | Video (SUNet ID required)
Olujimi Ajijola, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Medical Scientist Training Program, Associate Professor of Medicine, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiology Co-Director UCLA-Cal Tech MSTP Program

Can Kinase Inhibitor Cardiotoxicity Illuminate Unrecognized Aspects of Myocardial Biology? Trametinib and the MEK-ERK Axis | Video (SUNet ID required)
Brian C. Jensen, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, UNC Division of Cardiology, UNC McAllister Heart Institute

Vasa Vasorum (Dys)Function in Human Aortic Disease | Video
Julie Phillippi, PhD
Associate Professor, UPMC Pellegrini Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Vice Chair, Research, Director of Postdoctoral Research, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Scientific Director, Cardiac Research Laboratory
Co-Program Director, T32 Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Training Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Bioengineering
Associate Editor, Science Advances

Bay Area Cardiovascular Symposium

Solving the Genotype-Phenotype Conundrum of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy | Video
Daniel Bernstein, MD
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Scholarship
Stanford School of Medicine
Alfred Woodley Salter and Mabel G. Salter Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University

Pioneering Disease-Modifying Therapies for Ischemic Heart Disease
Video (SUNet ID required)
Patricia Nguyen, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine

Universal Source of Human Bioenergetics | Video
Phillip C. Yang, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine

Multi-Organ Platforms Containing Human Cardiac, Neuronal, Liver and Other Organ Mimics for Efficacy and Safety Evaluation of Therapeutics | Video (SUNet ID required)
James Hickman, PhD
Professor, University of Central Florida

Cytoskeletal Remodeling in Cardiac Cells: Orchestrating the Response to Cardiac Injury | Video
Thomas Hund, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Ohio State University

Deciphering the Genetic Blueprint of CAD: Insights From Nearly Two Decades of GWAS
Video (SUNet ID required)
Themistocles (Tim) Assimes, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine

SDDS 2025: Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

The Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium has become a cornerstone in the drug discovery community for networking and collaboration. SDDS 2025 offers a unique opportunity for all members of the drug discovery community – including researchers, pharmaceutical companies, investment groups, academia, and the broader biomedical community – to share ideas and innovations. 

Changes in Mitochondrial Ca2+ Levels in Heart and Muscle Are Linked to Metabolic Output | Video (SUNet ID required)
Jeff Molkentin, PhD
Director, Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology
Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

A Machine that Builds Itself: Biophysical Mechanisms Underlying Sarcomerogenesis | Video
Alexander Dunn, PhD
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University School of Medicine

Cardiovascular Disease and Health in the Women’s Health Initiative: Opportunities for Collaboration | Video
Marcia Stefanick, PhD
Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center), of Obstetrics and Gynecology and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health

Pulmonary Arteries Form Through A Vasculotrophic Program That Is Reactivated In Adult Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension | Video (SUNet ID Required)
Mark Nicolls, MD
Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine

Crafting The Stem Cell Niches: Advancing Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering through Microenvironment Engineering | Video
Janeta Zoldan, PhD
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Structural Insights Into Novel Treatments for Heart Failure Targeting Leaky Ryanodine Receptors | Video
Andrew R. Marks, MD
Chair and Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University

Microvascular Dysfunction in Congenital Heart Disease | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sushma Reddy, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Stanford Medicine Children's Health

Impact of Ectonucleotidases on Cardiovascular Disease | Video
Richard Gumina, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University

Targeting eNAMP/TLR4 Signaling and Innate Immunity to Address an Unmet Need in Pulmonary Hypertension | Video
Joe "Skip" G.N. Garcia, MD
Associate Vice President for Research, UF Health
Dr. Herbert A. Wertheim Professor of Molecular Medicine
Director, Center for Inflammation Science and Systems Medicine
The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology

Communicating What to Eat - To Netflix or Not
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Rehnborg Farquhar Professor, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine

Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease: Defining How the World’s Two Leading Killers Interact and How They Can Be Simultaneously Targeted | Video (SUNet ID required)
Nicholas Leeper, MD
Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) and of Medicine (Cardiovascular), Stanford Medicine

Systems Approaches to Complex Signaling Environments: From Cross-Family Vascular Biology to Precision Labor Management
P.I. Imoukhuede, PhD
Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair
Professor and Chair, UW Bioengineering

CANCELLED

Heart Regeneration | Video (SUNet ID required)
Bernhard Kühn, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine

Age-Specific Mechanisms of Dilated Cardiomyopathy | Video (SUNet ID required)
Carmen (Kika) Sucharov, PhD
Professor, Medicine-Cardiology, University of Colorado, School of Medicine

Drug Discovery for Aging Biology | Video
Toren Finkel, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Aging Institute
University of Pittsburgh

3D Genome Organization in Development and Disease
Video (SUNet ID required)
Rajan Jain, MD
Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine & Cell & Developmental Biology
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

AI-Enabled Opportunistic Screening for Atherosclerosis: Implications for Health Equity
Video (SUNet ID required)
Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine

Integrity of Nucleus and Genome along the Cytoskeletal-Matrix Axis
Video (SUNet ID required)
Dennis Discher, PhD
Robert D. Bent chaired Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Director of the NCI (National Cancer Institute) Physical Sciences Oncology Center/Project at Penn

Contemporary Cardiac CT: Physiology, AI-Plaque and Photon-Counting Detectors
Video (SUNet ID required)
Koen Nieman, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Radiology (CV Imaging), Stanford Health Care

Decipher Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Heart Failure | Video
Rong Tian, MD, PhD
Professor & Director, Interdisciplinary Mitochondria & Metabolism Center, University of Washington

Gene Therapy Targeting of Signalosomes as a Treatment for Heart Failure | Video
Michael Kapiloff, MD, PhD
Reinhard Family Professor, Professor (Research) of Ophthalmology and, by courtesy, of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford University School of Medicine

Drug Discovery One Patient at a Time: Combining iPSCs and Biosensors for Personalized Medicine | Video
Terence Hébert, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Assistant Dean, Biomedical Science Education
Director, McGill Regenerative Medicine Network
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
Canadian Pacific Chair in Biotechnology

How We Can and Will Use Genetics to Improve Cardiovascular Health | Video
Joshua Knowles, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford University School of Medicine

From Exposures to Exposomic Health Impacts and Sustainability Science | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD, MBA
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine and Chief Academic and Scientific Officer
University Hospitals, Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute
Herman K. Hellerstein MD, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

Cardiology on High Beam: Obstacles and Opportunities | Video
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology
James T. Willerson, M.D. Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Diseases
Frank M. Ryburn, Jr, Chair in Heart Research
Director, Harry S. Moss Heart Center
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

RAGE/DIAPH1 in Cardiometabolic Disease: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities
Video (SUNet ID required)
Ann Marie Schmidt, MD
Dr. Iven Young Professor of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Professor, Department of Pathology, NYU

Quantitative CMR Stress Perfusion Imaging: Applications in Ischemic Heart Disease, Heart Failure, and Cardiomyopathy | Video (SUNet ID required)
Michael Salerno, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular) and of Radiology (Cardiovascular Imaging), Stanford University School of Medicine

GOOTTER-JENSEN FOUNDATION LECTURE IN SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH
Mechanisms of Sudden Cardiac Death from Molecules to Atomistic Scale | Video
Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Basic Medical Sciences
Translational Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Arizona

Aging Biology in Heart Failure: Not Just for the Old | Video
Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine-Cardiology, Center Director of the MM Institute for Heart & Brain Health & Professor of Pharmacology, University of Michigan Medical School

How Generative AI Can Transform Biomedical Research
James Zou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, By Courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University School of Medicine

Leveraging Human Genetics for Cardiovascular Drug Development
Saptarsi Haldar, MD
Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Immune Mechanisms of Sodium and Blood Pressure Regulation in Cardiovascular Disease | Video (SUNet ID required)
Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Department of Medicine
Vanderbilt University College of Medicine

A Novel Role for Smooth Muscle Cells in Whole Body Energy Homeostasis and the Development of Obesity-related Cardiometabolic Dysfunction
Sharon Francis, PhD
Assistant Professor, Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine

Molecular and Genetic Insight in to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease
Philip S. Tsao, PhD
Professor (Research) of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine

That Which Does Not Kill Us, Makes Us Stronger: Scorpion Peptides Mitigate Ca2+-Dependent Arrhythmias
Hector Valdivia, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular Research Center
Faculty Director, MATRIX Program
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health

Insights to Arrhythmia Mechanisms and Therapies from Cardiac Reprograming | Video
Stacey Rentschler, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2024 Update: A Report of US and Global Data from the American Heart Association | Video
Latha Palaniappan, MD
Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

Cardio-Oncology and Cardio-Immunology: New Platforms for Cardiovascular Research
Javid Moslehi, MD
William Grossman Distinguished Professor in Cardiology
Chief, Section of Cardio-Oncology & Immunology
Professor in Residence
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine

Chanzyme TRPM7 - A New Player in Vascular Pathobiology | Video
Rhian M. Touyz, MBBCh, PhD
Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Dr. Phil Gold Chair in Medicine and Professor in Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Bartley P. Griffith, MD
Thomas E. and Alice Marie Hales Distinguished Professor of Transplant Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Insights from Atrial Fibrillation Genomics: From Bedside to Bench and Back Again | Video (SUNet ID required)
Mina K. Chung, MD
Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute
Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University

Human Coronary Artery Development and its Link to Coronary Artery Disease | Video (SUNet ID required)
Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Professor of Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Pathology of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension to Find New Therapies | Video (SUNet ID required)
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Interactions of the Renin Angiotensin System and Extracellular Matrix Integrity in Aortopathies | Video
Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc
Associate Vice President for Research
Chair, Physiology
Director, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center
Gill Foundation Chair in Preventive Cardiology
ATVB Editor-In-Chief
University of Kentucky, College of Medicine

How Clinical Observations Impact Device Development
Ioannis Karakikes, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine

Evolution of EVAR involving Iliac arteries and the importance of hypogastric preservation – How Clinical Observations Impact Device Development
Jason Lee, MD
Chief of Vascular Surgery and Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery), Stanford University School of Medicine

ATAC-ing the Heart of Gene Regulation | Video
William Greenleaf, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine

Insights into the Etiology of Congenital Heart Defects: From Human Genetics to Mouse Models | Video (SUNet ID required)
Vidu Garg, MD
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics
The Ohio State University

Calcium Release Deficiency Syndrome (CRDS) | Video
Wayne S.R. Chen, PhD
Professor
University of Calgary

T Cell Immune Responses in Heart Failure with Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction | Video (SUNet ID required)
Pilar Alcaide , PhD
Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor
Associate Professor of Immunology
Tufts University School of Medicine

Cardiovascular Consequences of Electronic Cigarette Exposure: from in Utero to Adulthood | Video
Loren Wold, PhD
Associate Dean for Research Operations and Compliance
The John G. and Jeanne Bonnet McCoy Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor, Department of Surgery (Cardiac)
The Ohio State University

Multi-physics modeling of flow and cardiac function in pediatric cardiology | Video
Alison Marsden, PhD
Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of Bioengineering
Stanford University

Proteostatic Determinants and The Translational Continuum: A Physician-Scientist’s Journey | Video
Ivor Benjamin, MD
Professor & Director, Cardiovascular Center
Medical College of Wisconsin

Understanding the Link Between COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Events
Chiara Giannarelli, MD, PhD | Video (SUNet ID required)
Associate Professor of Cardiology
Associate Professor of Pathology
NYU Cardiovascular Research Center
NYU Langone Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Across the Spectrum of Cardiovascular Diseases
Filippo Crea, MD, FESC
Editor-in-Chief, European Heart Journal
ESC Publications Committee Chair, European Society of Cardiology
Professor of Cardiology and Director, Department of Cardiovascular and Pneumological Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Genetic Landscape of Cardiomyopathy in Africans | Video
Ntobeko Ntusi, MBChB
Head of Medicine and Clinical Lead for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Groote Schuur Hospital

Multi-scale Mechano-Transcriptomics to Elucidate Flow-Mediated Molecular Transducers for Cardiovascular Development, Repair and Protection | Video (SUNet ID required)
Tzung Hsiai, MD, PhD
Professor Bioengineering
Professor, Graduate Programs in Bioscience
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering

Extracellular Matrix Regulation of Vascular Cell Fate and Regeneration | Video
Ngan F. Huang, PhD
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Stanford School of Medicine

The Role of the Myofilaments in Studies of Cardiomyopathic Thin Filament Variants | Video (SUNet ID required)
Jose Renato Pinto, PhD
Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Medicine
Florida State University

Predicting and Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death in Patients Without Systolic Dysfunction | Event brochure | Video
Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Cardiology
Lee and Harold Kapelovitz Distinguished Chair in Cardiology
Smidt Heart Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Mitochondrial Dynamics and Cardiometabolic Disease | Video
Dale Abel, MD, PhD
William S. Adams Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chair and Executive Medical Director
Department of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health

Cardiac Arrhythmia Discovery: Innovation Paradigms, Scientific Publishing, and Research Infrastructure
Paul J. Wang, MD
John R. and Ai Giak L. Singleton Director, Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, By Courtesy, of Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine

Gene Editing Human Cardiomyocytes to Enhance Regeneration | Video (SUNet ID required)
Charles E. Murry, MD, PhD
Conner Chair and Professor of Pathology, Bioengineering and Medicine/Cardiology
Director, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
University of Washington

Advancing Actionable Cardiovascular Science and Clinical Care for Our Patients Living With and Beyond Cancer
Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE
Founders Associate Professor of Cardio-Oncology, Department: Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Protein Targets to Mitigate Pathological Remodeling in Hearts by Proteomics Investigations | Video (SUNet ID required)
Alicia Lundby, PhD
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences Molecular Cardiology and Membrane Proteins
University of Copenhagen

Heart Failure Biomarkers and Biology: Cardiac Metabolism and Beyond | Video (SUNet ID required)
Svati Shah, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Genomics and Director of Precision Genomics Collaboratory, Director of Duke Adult Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic, Co-Director of Translational Research Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, and Vice-Chief of Translational Research, Division of Cardiology, Duke University School of Medicine

Individualizing Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death: Novel Risk Factors and Approaches | Video (SUNet ID required)
Katherine Wu, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, The John Hopkins Medical Institutions

Notch Regulates Arterial Tone and Arteriovenous Malformation | Video
Rong Wang, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery; Mildred V. Strouss Endowed Chair in Vascular Surgery; Director, Laboratory for Accelerated Vascular Research, UCSF

A Broken Macrophage Circadian Clock is a Driver of Inflammation and Remodeling in Heart Failure | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sumanth D. Prabhu, MD
Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiology
Washington University School of Medicine

Cardiopulmonary Health and Disease: an Inclusive Biomechanics Perspective | Video (SUNet ID required)
Naomi Chesler, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, UCI Samueli School of Engineering

Endothelial Cell Regulation of Innate Immunity and Infection Control | Video (SUNet ID required)
Asrar B. Malik, PhD
Schweppe Family Distinguished Professor and Department Head, Pharmacology, The University of Illinois at Chicago

A More Perfect Union-Understanding Heart Development via Wet and Dry Lab Research | Video
Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, By Courtesy, of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

For researchers, pharmaceutical companies, investment groups, and those in the wider biomedical community interested in discovering new drugs and improving patient care. This will be a hybrid event.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Young Athletes: The Case of ARVC | Video
Mario Delmar, MD, PhD
Patricia and Robert Martinsen Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine

Bioengineered Human Brain Microvasculature and Transcriptional Regulation of Arterial Venous Endothelial Cell Phenotype in Health and Diseases | Video (SUNet ID required)
Guohao Dai, PhD, MS
Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Northeastern University College of Engineering

When a Giant Multitasks: Unraveling Obscurin in the Heart | Video
Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Director of Interdisciplinary Training Program in Muscle Biology, Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Top-down Proteomics for Cardiac Precision Medicine | Video (SUNet ID required)
Ying Ge, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell & Regenerative Biology; Professor, Department of Chemistry; Director of Mass Spectrometry, Human Proteomics Program, School of Medicine & Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Microenvironmental Regulation of Vascular Formation and Regeneration | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sharon Gerecht, PhD
Paul M. Gross Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; & Associate Dean for Research and Infrastructure, Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Lysosomal Dysfunction Reprograms Endothelial Sterol Metabolism in Pulmonary Hypertension and Beyond | Video (SUNet ID required)
Stephen Y. Chan, MD, PhD
Director, Vascular Medicine Institute; Director, Center for Pulmonary Vascular Biology and Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC

Mechanisms of Heart Valve Maturation and Myxomatous Degeneration | Video
Katherine Yutzey, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics, The Heart Institute Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Mending Broken Hearts (and Blood Vessels) Using Pluripotent Stem Cells | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sanjay Sinha, MD, PhD
British Heart Foundation (BHF) Senior Research Fellow and Professor in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge

Genetic Mechanisms of Smooth Muscle Cell Transitions and their Role in Coronary Artery Disease Risk | Video (SUNet ID required)
Thomas Quertermous, MD
William G. Irwin Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

The Right Ventricle as a Therapeutic Target in Pulmonary Hypertension | Video (SUNet ID required)
Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Director, Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Center of Excellence and HHT Research; Faculty, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine

Cardiovascular Regeneration with iPSCs and Direct Reprogramming
Young-Sup Yoon, MD, PhD
Director of Stem Cell Biology, Bruce R. Logue Chair, Division of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine

Precision Cardiovascular Medicine through Big Data, Informatics and Biotechnology | Video
Louise Sun, MD
Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology & Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Altering Cell Fate for Heart Repair | Video
Li Qian, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Associate Director of McAllister Heart Institute, CFAC Chair of Animal Cores, Faculty Director of UNC Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Core, UNC School of Medicine

Cell Engineering: Single Cell Analysis and Mechano-Reprogramming | Video
Song Li, PhD
Chancellor's Professor, Chair of Bioengineering, HSSEAS
Department of Medicine, DGSOM, UCLA

Unbiased Phenotype-Based Approach to Biology: Fast Track to Translation | Video (SUNet ID required)
Charles C. Hong , MD, PhD
Dr. Melvin Sharoky Professor of Medicine
Director of Cardiology Research
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Gootter Foundation Lecture

A Journey from Drug-Induced Torsades to Implementing Genomic Medicine | Video (SUNet ID required)
Dan Mark Roden, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Targeting Angiogenesis in Pulmonary Hypertension: From Bench to Bedside | Video (SUNet ID required)
Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine (PACCM); Co-Director, Stanford Translational Investigator Program (TIP); Director of PACCM Faculty and Fellow Diversity and Inclusion; Chair-elect, ATS Pulmonary Circulation Assembly, Chair, 3CPR Scientific & Clinical Education Lifelong Learning Committee (SCILL), Stanford University School of Medicine

Heart Failure is an Acquired and Treatable Disease | Video
Robin M. Shaw, MD, PhD
Director, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute Nora Eccles Harrison Presidential Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine

Structural Insights into the Complex Biology of Mu-Opioid Receptor Agonists
Brian Kobilka, MD
Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology Stanford University Nobel Prize in 2012 

Biomechanical Signaling and Cardiovascular Tissue Regeneration | Video (SUNet ID required)
Yibing Qyang, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)and of Pathology Director of Yale Stem Cell Research Forum Section of Cardiovascular Medicine Yale Stem Cell Center Yale University School of Medicine

Engineering hiPSC-Myocytes to Study Disease & Treat Heart Failure
Michael Regnier, PhD
Director, UW Center for Translational Muscle Research, Professor of Bioengineering, School of Medicine & College of Engineering, University of Washington

Molecular Mechanisms Linking Mutations in Smooth Muscle α-actin (ACTA2) to Diverse Vascular Diseases | Video
Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD
President George H.W. Bush Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vice Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, Director of the Division of Medical Genetics, Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, Director of the John Ritter Research Program, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School

Metabolic Cross talk in Heart Repair | Video (SUNet ID required)
Arjun Deb, MD
Professor, Cardiology; Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology; Director, UCLA Cardiovascular Medicine Research Theme, UCLA

E Pluribus Unum: Cardiovascular Surgery, Science, and Engineering | Video (SUNet ID required)
Y. Joseph Woo, MD
Norman E. Shumway Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Professor, by courtesy, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University

Release of Extracellular Vesicles in the Heart - signaling entities or garbage bags? | Video
Åsa Gustafsson, PhD
Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine

A Clinical Risk Prediction Score for Avertable Sudden Cardiac Death | Video
Sumeet S. Chugh, MD
Price Professor and Associate Director, Smidt Heart Institute Medical Director, Heart Rhythm Center Director, Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention Director, Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Dept of Medicine

Regenerating and Rejuvenating Aged Muscles by Targeting a “Gerozyme”
Helen M. Blau, PhD
Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation Professor, Director, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology and Professor, By Courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Big Data for Managing Health
Michael Snyder, PhD
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics, Chair Department of Genetics, and Director of Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Across Heart Failure: Common Congestion And Less Common Pathways | Video
Lynne W. Stevenson, MD
Professor of Medicine Fellowship Director, Heart Failure Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Pediatric Heart Failure Secretome in Pathologic Remodeling and Mitochondrial Dysfunction | Video (SUNet ID Required)
Carmen (Kika) Sucharov, PhD
Professor Director, Pediatric Cardiovascular Research Laboratory
University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus

Mechanisms of Structural Degeneration of Bioprosthetic Heart Valves and Mitigation Strategies | Video
Giovanni Ferrari, PhD
Associate Professor, Columbia University Departments of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Research & Columbia Biobank for Translational Science (CBTS)

Endothelial Cell Lipid Metabolism in Health and Disease | Video (SUNet ID required)
William Sessa, PhD
Senior Vic President, Chief Scientific Officer of Internal Medicine, Pfizer Alfred Gilman Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology; Vice Chairman, Pharmacology; Director, Vascular Biology & Therapeutics Program, Yale School of Medicine

Chemerin as a Link Between Obesity and Hypertension | Video
Stephanie W Watts, PhD, FAHA
Professor Pharmacology and Toxicology
Michigan State University

ROS (Redox) Signaling, Endothelial Metabolism and Angiogenesis | Video (SUNet ID required)
Masuko Ushio-Fukai, PhD, FAHA
Professor, Director of the Redox Signaling Program Vascular Biology Center Department of Medicine, Cardiology
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Cardio-Oncology: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? | Video
Jun-ichi Abe, MD, PhD, FAHA
Professor, Department of Cardiology - Research, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

Currently a virtual event, taking place on our remote platform

Cardiovascular Precision Medicine and Dynamic Genomes | Video (SUNet ID required)
Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSC
Director of Preventive Cardiology & Fireman Endowed Chair in Vascular Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Systematic Expansion of Human Phenotyping to Drive Mechanistic Insights in Biomedicine | Video (SUNet ID required)
Calum A. MacRae, MD, PhD
Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor, Harvard Medical School

Genetic Pathways and Modifiers for Cardiomyopathy | Video
Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD
Elizabeth Ward Professor and Director
Center for Genetic Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Thrombospondin Gene Family Regulates Diverse Aspects | Video (SUNet ID required)
Jeffery D. Molkentin, PhD
Director, Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology
Co-Director, Heart Institute Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

The Road to Making Mature Cardiomyocytes: Transcriptional Perspectives | Video
Chulan Kwon, PhD, MS
Director, Cardiovascular Stem Cell Program
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Heart and Vascular Institute, Johns Hopkins

mRNA-Based Approach for Treating Ischemic Heart Disease | Video (SUNet ID required)
Lior Zangi, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Harnessing Regenerative Mechanisms for Treating Congenital Heart Disease | Video
Bernhard Kühn, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Pediatric Institute for Heart Regeneration and Therapeutics (I-HRT)
Associate Director, Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research
Department of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburg School of Medicine

Novel NOX and NO Modulating Pathways in Cardiovascular Injury and Protection | Video (SUNet ID required)
Hua Linda Cai, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Medicine
UCLA

Decoding Bone Morphogenetic Protein and Activin Signaling in Congenital Vascular and Heterotopic Ossification Syndromes | Video (SUNet ID required)
Paul B. Yu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard

Drug Delivery for Heart and Lung Repair | Video (SUNet ID required)
Ke Cheng, PhD
Professor, Regenerative Medicine
North Carolina State University

Can Injured Heart Valves Self-Repair? | Video
Joy Lincoln, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin
Associate Section Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
Peter Sommerhauser Chair of Quality, Outcomes and Research
Director, Cardiovascular Research, The Herma Heart Institute, Children’s Wisconsin

Molecular Insights into Vascular Regression | Video (SUNet ID required)
Courtney Griffin, PhD
Member, Cardiovascular Biology Research Program
Scott Zarrow Chair in Biomedical Research
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Scientific Director, Oklahoma Center for Adult Stem Cell Research

Molecular Regulation of Cardiac Function, Regeneration and Disease | Video
DaZhi Wang, PhD
Professor & Director, Heart Institute
College of Medicine Internal Medicine
University of South Florida

Mechanisms of Cardiac Sex Disparity | Video
Frank L. Conlon, PhD
Professor, Departments of Biology & Genetics
Director, Biological & Genome Sciences
University of North Carolina

ER Proteostasis and Heart Disease | Video
Christopher Glembotski, PhD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director, Translational Cardiovascular Research Center; Associate Dean, Research

A Gene Regulatory Nexus between Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure | Video (SUNet ID required)
Ivan Moskowitz, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Human Genetics Vice Chair for Research, Pediatrics The University of Chicago

Effects of the Dual Absence of RGS2 & RGS5 Proteins on Ventricular Rhythm | Video (SUNet ID required)
Patrick Osei-Owusu, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor of Physiology & Biophysics Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Pharmacogenetics of anthracycline-metabolizing enzymes in human myocardium | Video
Javier G. Blanco, Clin. Biochem., PhD
Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Toll Like Receptor 2 in Angiogenesis, Regeneration and Vascular Pathologies | Video (SUNet ID required)
Tatiana V. Byzova, PhD, FAHA
Staff, Canova Chair in Angiogenesis
Director, Angiogenesis Center
Department of Neuroscience
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute

Unraveling Immune Cell Diversity and Function within the Heart | Video
Kory J. Lavine, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Center for Cardiovascular Research
Director of Cardiovascular Precision Medicine Research Initiative
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Caveolins and Caveolae in Health and Disease | Video (SUNet ID required)
Hemal H. Patel, PhD
Professor & Vice-Chair for Research
Director, UCSD Cardiac/Neuro Protection Laboratories
VA Research Career Scientist, VA San Diego Healthcare System
Department of Anesthesiology
University of California, San Diego

Kick-starting Cardiac Regeneration | Video (SUNet ID required)
W. Robb MacLellan, MD
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Physiology
Director of UW Medicine Heart Institute
Division Head, Cardiology
Robert A. Bruce Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Research
Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center

Personalizing Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation | Video
Dawood Darbar, MBChB, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Co-Director, Center for Cardiovascular Research
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Illinois at Chicago

RNA editing and innate immunity | Video
Jin Billy Li, PhD
Associate Professor of Genetics
Stanford University

Opportunities to Target Adverse Metabolic Remodeling of Diseased Hearts | Video
E. Douglas Lewandowski, PhD
Jack M. George Chair in Medicine
Director, Translational Research, Dorothy M. Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Small is Big: A Vasa Vasorum Perspective of Human Aortic Aneurysm | Video
Julie A. Phillippi, PhD
Associate Professor, UPMC Pellegrini Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery; Vice Chair for Cardiac Research and Director of Postdoctoral Research, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Scientific Director, Cardiac Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Bioengineering, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Strategies for 3D Printing Complex Cardiac Tissue Mimics | Video (SUNet ID required)
Brenda Ogle, PhD
Professor and Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering Professor, Department of Pediatrics Director, Stem Cell Institute University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Regulatory Roles of Oncogenes in Cardiac and Vascular Diseases
Chinmay M. Trivedi MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School

4th Annual Gootter Foundation Lecture

Frontiers in Atrial Fibrillation | Video (SUNet ID required)
Barbara Casadei, MD, DPhil
British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Oxford

Molecular Imaging of Light Chain Cardiac Amyloidosis | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Cardiovascular Medicine
Radiology
Harvard Medical School

Risk Stratification for Sudden Cardiac Death: Old Problem, New Solutions | Video (SUNet ID required)
Katherine Wu, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
The John Hopkins Medical Institutions

Strategies to Advance Cardio-Oncology: From Phenotyping Cohorts to Conducting Clinical Trials | Video (SUNet ID required)
Bonnie Ky, MD, MSCE
Founders Associate Professor of Cardio-Oncology
Department of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Guiding 3D vascular fate and assembly | Video (SUNet ID required)
Sharon Gerecht, PhD
Edward J. Schaefer Professor of Engineering
Director, Institute for NanoBioTechnology
Johns Hopkins University

Notch Signaling in Arterial Venous Programming and Arteriovenous Malformation | Video (SUNet ID required)
Rong Wang, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Mildred V. Strouss Endowed Chair in Vascular Surgery
Director, Laboratory for Accelerated Vascular Research
UCSF

Allele-specific genetic and hypoxic control of an epigenetic lncRNA axis orchestrates endothelial reprogramming in pulmonary hypertension | Video (SUNet ID required)
Stephen Y. Chan, MD, PhD
Director, Vascular Medicine Institute
Director, Center for Pulmonary Vascular Biology and Medicine
Professor of Medicine Division of Cardiology
Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC

Desmosomal failure translates into intracellular calcium dysregulation: A mechanism for sudden death in the young | Video
Mario Delmar, MD, PhD
Patricia and Robert Martinsen Professor of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine
New York University School of Medicine

Adaptable and hemodynamic endothelial cells for therapeutic organogenesis and tumor targeting | Video
Shahin Rafii, MD
Arthur B. Belfer Professor in Genetic Medicine
Division Chief of Regenerative Medicine
Director Ansary Stem Cell Institute
Weill Cornell Medical College

2021 Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

Event Recordings

Mechanisms of Ibrutinib Induced Atrial Fibrillation | Video
David J. Milan, MD
Chief Scientific Officer
Leducq

Cardiac Wound Healing After Myocardial Infarction | Video (SUNet ID required)
Merry L. Lindsey, PhD
Chair and Stokes-Shackleford Professor, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology Director, Center for Heart and Vascular Research University of Nebraska Medical Center

How heart scars regulate their own size | Video (SUNet ID required)
Arjun Deb, MD
Professor of Cardiology; Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Director of the UCLA Cardiovascular Medicine Research Theme
UCLA

Unbiased Phenotype-Based Approach to Biology: from Small Molecules to Big Data | Video (SUNet ID required)
Charles C. Hong, MD, PhD
Dr. Melvin Sharoky Professor of Medicine
Director of Cardiology Research
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Obscurins: Giant Cytoskeletal Regulators in Heart Disease | Video
Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Director of Interdisciplinary Training Program in Muscle Biology, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Myocardial Recovery: Bedside to Bench and Back | Video
Stavros G. Drakos, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine & Nora Eccles Treadwell Scholar, Division of Cardiology
Research Director, Co-Chief of Heart Failure & Transplant
Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training
University of Utah

Heart Failure: An Immune-Mediated Disease | Video
Sumanth D. Prabhu, MD
Professor of Medicine
Mary G. Waters Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Disease
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Biomechanical and Mechanobiological Mechanisms of Pulmonary Hypertension due to Left Heart Failure | Video (SUNet ID required)
Naomi Chesler, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director of the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology
UCI Samueli School of Engineering

Achieving inclusive excellence in biomedical research: applying genomics to unravel health disparities in organ transplantation
Hannah Valantine, MD, MRCP
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development
Stanford University School of Medicine

Cell Transitions in the Heart after Birth | Video
Katherine Yutzey, PhD
Professor Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, The Heart Institute Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Genetics of Familial Hypercholesterolemia | Video
Catherine Boileau, PharmD, PhD
Chair of the Genetics Department
Bichat Hospital

Engineering micro- and nanostructured materials for cardiovascular disease therapy | Video (SUNet ID required)
Tejal Desai, PhD
Department Chair and Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
UCSF School of Pharmacy

Igniting the Flame of Inflammation through Cardiomyocyte CAMKII and Inflammasome Activation | Video
Joan Heller Brown, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
UCSD School of Medicine

Engineering hiPSC-Myocytes to Study Disease & Treat Heart Failure | Video (SUNet ID required)
Michael Regnier, PhD
Director, UW Center for Translational Muscle Research
Professor of Bioengineering, School of Medicine & College of Engineering
University of Washington

Novel Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Quality Control in the Myocardium | Video
Åsa Gustafsson, PhD
Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmacology
UCSD School of Medicine

"Understanding the Complexity of T Cell Activation in Heart Failure"
Pilar Alcaide, PhD
Kenneth and JoAnn G. Wellner Professor
Associate Professor of Immunology
Tufts University School of Medicine

"Genetic Determinants of Thrombosis"
Charles Lowenstein, MD
Director, Division of Cardiology
Co-Director, John Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins

"Heart Failure Omics: Cardiac Metabolism and Beyond"
Svati Shah, MD, MHS
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean of Genomics and Director of Precision Genomics Collaboratory
Director, Duke Adult Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic
Co-Director, Translational Research, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute
Vice-Chief, Translational Research, Division of Cardiology Duke
University School of Medicine

"Molecular Mechanisms of Small Vessel Disease in Hypertension and CADASIL"
Rhian M. Touyz, MBBCh, PhD, FRCP, FRESE, FMedSci
Professor, British Heart Foundation
Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre
University of Glasgow

"Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Engineering and Regeneration"
Yibing Qyang, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and of Pathology
Director of Yale Stem Cell Research Forum
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Yale Stem Cell Center
Yale University School of Medicine

"cBIN1 and T-tubule Remodeling: Mechanism, Biomarker, and Therapy for Failing Hearts"
Robin M. Shaw, MD, PhD
Director, Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute
Nora Eccles Harrison Presidential Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine
University of Utah

"Programming and Reprogramming: what does it take to make a cardiomyocyte?"
Li Qian, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Associate Director of McAllister Heart Institute
CFAC Chair of Animal Cores
Faculty Director of UNC Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Core
UNC School of Medicine

2020 Gootter Foundation Lecture

"Neuroscientific Therapies for Heart Disease"
Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Radiology & Bioengineering
Director, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs
Director & Chief, UCLA Interventional CV Programs & Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
David Geffen School of Medicine & UCLA Health
System Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology

"Vascular Regeneration with Stem Cells, Reprogrammed Cells and Engineering"
Young-Sup Yoon, MD, PhD
Director of Stem Cell Biology Bruce R. Logue
Chair, Division of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Emory University School of Medicine

"Top-down Proteomics for Cardiac Systems Biology and Precision Medicine"
Ying Ge, PhD
Professor Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology
Department of Chemistry
Director of Human Proteomics Programs
University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Sudden Cardiac Death: Novel Approaches to Prediction and Prevention"
Sumeet S. Chugh, MD
Price Professor and Associate Director
Smidt Heart Institute Medical Director
Heart Rhythm Center Director
Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention Director
Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Dept of Medicine, Cedars Sinai

"COVID-19 Demographics Update"
Robert K. Jackler, MD
Sewall Professor and Chair Dept Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine

"COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Disease"
Masataka Nishiga, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Joseph Wu Lab
Cardiovascular Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine

"Genes Predisposing to Thoracic Aortic Disease: Insight into Molecular Pathogenesis"
Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD
President George H.W. Bush Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vice Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine
Director of the Division of Medical Genetics
Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program
Director of the John Ritter Research Program
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
McGovern Medical School

"Myeloid Cells and Endogenous Retroviral Elements in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
Dwight and Vera Dunlevie Professor in Pediatric Cardiology
Stanford School of Medicine

"Cell therapy: Clinical evidence and scientific advances"
Buddhadeb Dawn, MD
Professor and Chairman Department of Internal Medicine Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Nevada
Las Vegas School of Medicine

"Crucial Applications of Single Cell Gene Expression and Immune Profiling for Infectious Disease Research"
Brian R. Fritz, PhD
Associate Director, Strategic Market Development & Programs, Immunology Segment Manager
10x Genomics

"Epigenetic mechanisms in heart failure"
Gianluigi Condorelli, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiology and Director, Post-Graduate School of Cardiology
Humanitas University Head, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Humanitas Research Hospital

Part I: "Targeting inflammation in hypertension"
Part II: "Why publish in Cardiovascular Research - basic and translational journal of the ESC"
Tomasz J. Guzik, MD, PhD
Regius Professor of Physiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow, Cardiovascular Research Centre
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

"Signalosomes and Pathological Cardiac Remodeling"
Michael Kapiloff, MD, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Ophthalmology and, by courtesy, of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford School of Medicine

"Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology for Studying Genomics and Cell Engineering"
Stanley Qi, MD
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford School of Medicine

"Immune Checkpoints in Large Vessel Vasculitis"
Cornelia Weyand, MD
Professor in Medicine, Vasculitis Clinic, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology
Stanford School of Medicine

"A Two-Hit Model of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
Mark Robert Nicolls, MD
Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine
Endowed Chair, The Stanford Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Stanford University

"Battle of the Weight Loss Diets: Is Anyone Winning (at Losing)?"
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine
Stanford Prevention Research Center

"Inside the American Heart Association’s Research Enterprise: Grant Funding and Other Opportunities"
Glenn Dillon, PhD
Director of Research Operations
American Heart Association

"Using Patient iPSCs to Generate Safe and Effective Drugs for Heart Disease and Cancer"
Mark Mercola, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Stanford School of Medicine

"iPSCs - Heart and the Gut"
Maria I. Kontaridis, PhD
Director of Research
Gordon K. Moe Professor and Chair Biomedical Research and Translational Medicine
Masonic Medical Research Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, Part-time
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School

"Therapeutic Effects of Apelin Signaling on Cardiovascular Aging"
Jay Rajadas, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research), Medicine - Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine

"Nanodomain cAMP signaling"
Manuela Zaccolo, MD, PhD
Professor and Deputy Head
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Professor, Cell Biology

"Precision Medicine: Opportunities for Impact Locally and Globally"
Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director of MEDx (Medicine and Engineering at Duke)
Director of Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine
Professor in Pathology
Professor in the School of Nursing
Duke University

"Human Pluripotent Stem Cells in a Developmental Context"
Martin Pera, PhD
Principal Investigator
The Jackson Laboratory
Editor, Stem Cell Reports

"Bridging the Translational Divide in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"
Sharlene M. Day, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Michigan Medicine Cardiology Clinic

"Exercise, Aging, and Heart Failure: New Targets for an Old Disease"
Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Chief, Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Paul Dudley White Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center

"Mechanisms in Cardiac Maturation and Diseases: Discovery to Therapy"
Yibin Wang, PhD
Professor of Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine
Chair of Cardiovascular Theme
Vice Chair for Research
Director, Division of Molecular Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
UCLA

"Cardio-Oncology: A novel platform for cardiovascular investigation"
Javid J. Moslehi, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Cardio-Oncology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

"Epigenetic Therapies for Heart Failure"
Timothy A. McKinsey, PhD
Associate Professor & Associate Division Head for Translational Research Director, Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

"The role of calcium handling dysregulation in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation"
Xander Wehrens, MD, PhD
Professor, Molecular Physiology
Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Juanita P. Quigley Endowed Chair in Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine

"Redefining Cardiovascular Biology One Cell At A Time"
Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by Courtesy, of Pediatrics

"Metabolism and the Extracellular Matrix: A Convenient Relationship"
Steven P. Jones, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Director, Diabetes and Obesity Center, University of Louisville

Stanford-Penn Cardiovascular Symposium

"Functional Genomics Facility Resources"
John Coller, PhD
Director of Stanford Functional Genomics

"Drug and Target Discovery at the Stanford HTBC"
David E. Solow-Coredero, PhD
Director, High-throughput Bioscience Center (HTBC)

"Cardiac Regeneration: Hope or Hype"
Ronglih Liao, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

"HFpEF: Malady, Model, and Mechanisms"
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Biology
James T. Willerson M.D. Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Diseases; Frank M. Ryburn, Jr. Chair in Heart Research; Director, Harry S. Moss Heart Center; Chief of Cardiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center

"Arrhythmogenic Heart Disease: Breaking Down Cell-Cell Connections To Unravel New Pathways and Therapeutics"
Farah Sheikh, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Medicine
UCSD School of Medicine

"Modeling human heart disease using fish and the dish"
Todd R. Evans, PhD
Peter I. Pressman Professor of Surgery Vice Chair for Research
Chief Division of Research Department of Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical School

"Health effects of secondhand smoke; and should we care about marijuana and e-cigarettes?"
Matt Springer, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
UCSF

"Acute Heart Failure Management 2019: Are We on the Right Path?"
Eric Velazquez, MD
Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine; Physician-in-Chief, Heart and Vascular Center, Yale New Haven Health

"Circulating RNA: Bridging Obesity, the Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Disease"
Jane E. Freedman, MD
Edward Budnitz Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Director of Translational Research UMass Memorial Heart & Vascular Center University of Massachusetts Medical School

"Wearables and Detection of Cardiac Arrhythmias"
Mintu Turakhia, MD and Marco Perez, MD
Assistant Professors of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine

"Improving Cardiovascular ‘Diseases-in-a-Dish’ With Active Materials"
Adam J. Engler, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair of Bioengineering
University of California San Diego, La Jolla
The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla

"Inflammation and Atrial Fibrillation: Identification of Upstream Therapeutic Targets"
Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiology), School of Medicine
UC Davis

"Hypoxia Inducible Factor in the Heart"
Ralph Shohet, MD
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Research Professor of Medicine, University of Hawaii

"The long QT syndrome: The long road from zero knowledge to personalized management"
Peter J. Swartz, MD
Professor and Head, Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin IRCCS Istituto, Auxologico Italiano

"Sex Differences in the Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease"
Leslie Leinwand, PhD
Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Chief Scientific Officer, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder

4th Annual Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

"The Mencius Paradigm for Cardiac Rejuvenation"
Doug Sawyer, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Myocardial Biology & Heart Failure Research
Lab Chief, Cardiovascular Services, Maine Medical Center

"Engineering Approaches for Controlling the Cellularity of Cardiac Tissues From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Todd McDevitt, PhD
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UC San Francisco
Investigator, Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine at Gladstone

"Management of Complex Arrhythmias 2020: A Look at the Present and the Future"
Paul Wang, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Stanford University Medical Center

Sanjiv Narayan, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) at the Stanford University Medical Center

"Illuminating Subcellular Cyclic Nucleotide Microdomains to Better Treat Cardiovascular Diseases"
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Viacheslav Nikolaev
Director, Institute Center for Experimental Medicine
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

"Load-dependent Cardiac Remodeling: New Tools & Translational Opportunities"
Kenneth B. Margulies, MD
Professor of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Research Director, Heart Failure/Transplantation

"Clonal Hematopoiesis and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease"
Sidd Jaiswal, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology

"Using Gene Expression to Interpret Common and Rare Genetic Diseases"
Stephen Montgomery, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology, and of Genetics
Stanford University

"How Biobanks are Enabling New Discovery and Implementation Science"
Dan M. Roden, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics
Sam L. Clark, MD, PhD Endowed Chair
Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine

"How Biobanks are Enabling New Discovery and Implementation Science"
David J. Pinsky, MD
Professor
Division Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan
Director, Frankel Cardiovascular Center

"Stem Cell Therapy for HLHS: The Next Frontier"
Timothy J. Nelson, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Research
NWWI, Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Mayo Clinic Health System

"Translating Redox Biology to Medicine: Novel Properties of Hemoglobin in NO and CO Signaling and Therapeutics"
Mark T. Gladwin, MD
Jack D. Myers Professor and Chair Department of Medicine Director
Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute

"Epigenomic Blueprint of the Heart"
Benoit G. Bruneau, PhD
William H. Younger Investigator, Associate Director,
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF

"Modeling the Genetic Landscape of Congenital Heart Disease with Mouse Forward Genetics"
Cecilia Wen Ya Lo, PhD
Professor and Dr. F. Sargent Cheevers Chair, Department of Developmental Biology
University of Pittsburgh

"A Change of Heart: Cellular and Genetic Dissection of Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration"
Neil C. Chi, MD, PhD
Director of the UCSD Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic and Cardiac Tissue Harvest and Biorepository Core

"CRISPR Genome Editing in the Mouse"
Joseph M. Miano, PhD
Associate Director, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute Professor, Department of Medicine, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute University of Rochester Medical Center

"Genomics of CVD and its Risk Factors Enters the Clinic"
Jerome I. Rotter, MD
Director, Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Director, Division of Genomic Outcomes
Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Human Genetics, UCLA

"Three Approaches to Understanding Mechanisms of AAA Disease"
Phil Tsao, PhD
Professor (Research) of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford School of Medicine

"Race, Risk and Resilience: Three Dimensions of Health Disparities"
Herman A. Taylor, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine

"Energy Metabolism of the Heart: Looking Beyond ATP"
Rong Tian, MD, PhD
Director of Mitochondria and Metabolism Center
Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, and Bioengineering
Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry and Pathology   

"A Path to Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease: Can We All Live to 100?"
Eugene Braunwald, MD
Chairman, TIMI Study Group
Professor, Harvard Medical School

"The Lancet and Dealing with Scientific Misconduct"
Stuart Spencer
Senoir Executive Editor, The Lancet

"Studying Coronary Artery Development to Identify Strategies for Regeneration"
Kristy Red-Horse, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biology

"What's Keeping Me Busy"
Stephen Quake, PhD
Lee Otterson Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, of Applied Physics and, by Courtesy, of Physics

"Cardiovascular Derivatives of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Challenges in Next Generation Disease Modelling"
Christine Mummery, PhD
Professor of Developmental Biology, Chair Dept. of Anatomy & Embryology
Leiden University Medical Center

"Rapid 3D Bioprinting: An Enabling Platform for Microphysiological System"
Shaochen Chen, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of NanoEngineering Department Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology Departments; Co-Director of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center, University of California, San Diego

"Inflammation in Atherosclerosis: A Translational Tale"
Peter Libby, MD
Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School | Cardiovascular Medicine | Brigham and Women's Hospital

"Cyclophilin A – A Mediator of Cardiovascular Disease"
Bradford C. Berk, MD, PhD
Distinguished University Professor in Medicine,
Neurology, Pathology, and Pharmacology & Physiology
Director, University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute
University of Rochester Medical Center

"CV Molecular Imaging Challenges and Opportunities"
Robert J. Gropler, MD
Professor of Radiology, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering | Senior Vice-Chair and Division Director Radiological Sciences | Chief, Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory | Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology | Washington University School of Medicine

"Lessons from the Heart: New Insights into Physiology from Ion Channelopathies"
Geoffrey Pitt, MD, PhD
Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute
The Ida and Theo Rossi Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

"Decoding Oxidative Post-Translation Modification Fingerprints of Mitochondria: a Data Science Approach"
Peipei Ping, PhD
Professor, Physiology | Professor, Medicine/Cardiology, and Bioinformatics | Director, NIH BD2K Center of Excellence at UCLA | Director, NIH BD2K Centers-Coordination Center at UCLA

"Cardiovascular Epigenomics: From Chromatin Fiber to Human Populations"
Thomas M. Vondriska, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine and Physiology, UCLA

"Designer Materials for Cell Transplantation and 3D Bio-printing"
Sarah C. Heilshorn, PhD
Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford
Associate Editor, Science Advances | AAAS

"Human Genetics on a Massive Scale: Can we Make Drug Discovery More Efficient?"
Richard Scheller
CSO of 23andMe

"Biomaterial Strategies to Modulate Inflammation"
Kam W. Leong, PhD
Samuel Y. Sheng Professor | EiC, Biomaterials | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Columbia University

Inaugural Steven M. Gootter Foundation Lecture | Event Brochure
Mark E. Anderson, MD, PhD
William Osler Professor of Medicine | Director, Department of Medicine | Johns Hopkins University Department of Medicine | Physician in Chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital

"Molecular Thermo-Biology in Physiology and Disease"
Shingo Kajimura, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology
UCSF

"Targeting GRK2 in the Failing Heart"
Walter J. Koch, PhD
William Wikoff Smith Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine | Professor and Chair, Pharmacology | Professor and Director, Center for Translational Medicine | Temple University

"Cooperative Activation of Cardiac Transcription Through Myocardin Bridging of Paired MEF2 Sites"
Brian Black, PhD
Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
UCSF

"Personalized Treatment Planning in Cardiovascular disease: From Computation to Clinic"
Alison L. Marsden, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of Bioengineering and, by Courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford

"Hippo Signaling in Heart Regeneration"
James F. Martin, MD, PhD
Professor, Vivian L. Smith Chair in Regenerative Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine

"Ten Years of GWAS of CVD: What Now?"
Erik Ingelsson, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by Courtesy, of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology)
Stanford

"Mobilizing Medicine: The Role of Proteomics in Precision Medicine"
Jennifer Van Eyk, PhD
Director, Advanced Clinical Biosystems Institute In The Department Of Biomedical Sciences | Director, Basic Science Research In The Women’s Heart Center | Erika J. Glazer Chair In Women’s Heart Health
Cedars Sinai

"Rho Kinase (ROCK) and Cardiovascular Disease"
James K. Liao, MD
Harold Hines, Jr., Professor
Chief, Cardiology Section
Director, Physician Scientist Training Program
University of Chicago

"The Future of Angiogenesis for the Treatment of Coronary Disease: A Historical Perspective"
Frank W. Sellke, MD
Karl E. Karlson, MD, and Gloria A. Karlson Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Brown Medical School and Lifespan Hospitals

"Mechanism and Therapy for Cerebral Cavernous Malformation"
Mark Kahn, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

"Heart Failure: Two Inflammatory Tales"
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
James T. Willerson, MD, Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Diseases
Frank M. Ryburn, Jr., Chair in Heart Research
Chief of Cardiology
UT Southwestern

"Modeling Cardiovascular Development with Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Gordon M. Keller, PhD
Director, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine
Senior Scientist
Ontario Cancer Institute

"Gut Microbiota as Treatment Target for Cardio-Renal Risks"
Wilson Tang, MD
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic

"Stanford + Takeda: Alliance for Innovative Medicines"
Francois Haddad, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford

"Evidence-based Medicine: Precisely"
John P. A. Ioannidis
C. F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention in the School of Medicine and Professor of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and, by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science

"Signalosomes – Nodal regulators and Therapeutic Targets for Heart Failure"
Michael Kapiloff, MD, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Ophthalmology
Stanford

"The Genetics of Congenital Heart Disease: Long, Dazed Journey into Clinic"
Bruce D. Gelb, MD
Gogel Family Chair and Director of The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology, and Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences

"Precision Medicine for Heart Failure: Autologous iPSC-derived Exosomes"
Phillip C. Yang, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford

"A Layperson’s Involvement in Fighting CVD and Stroke"
Alvin L. Royse, JD, CPA
National Chair, American Heart Association

"Extracting More Sense from Sound: Ultrasonic Methods for Evaluating Age-Related Changes in Myocardial Structure and Function"
Susan Cheng, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital

"Physical Activity Interventions in Type 2 Diabetes: Opportunities for Collaboration"
Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS
Clinical Professor, Medicine - General Medical Disciplines
Stanford School of Medicine

"The Natriuretic Peptides and Cardiometabolic Disease: From Base Pairs to Bedside"
Thomas J. Wang, MD
Gottlieb C. Friesinger II Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

"Cardiac Maturation and Regeneration"
Charles E. Murry, MD, PhD
Woods Professor of Pathology, Bioengineering and Medicine/Cardiology; Interim Director, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Co-Director, Center for Cardiovascular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle

"Proline Hydroxylation Regulates Protein Degradation, Synthesis and Splicing in Human Induced-Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes"
Elizabeth Murphy, PhD
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Cardiac Physiology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

"Therapeutic Targeting of Cardiac (and Kidney) Fibrosis"
Burns C. Blaxall, PhD, FAHA, FACC, FAPS
Director of Translational Science, Heart Institute; Co-Director, Heart Institute Research Core & Biorepository; Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics; University of Cincinnati

"Renal Denervation in Heart Failure"
David Joseph Lefer, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
Professor of Pharmacology, LSU Health New Orleans

"Defining New Pathways for Human Cardiovascular Disease"
Peter J. Mohler, PhD
Professor and Chair, Physiology and Cell Biology
Ohio State University

"Genetic Drugs for Cardiac Repair and Regeneration"
Mauro Giacca, MD
Director-General
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)

"Beyond Biopsy: Using Genomics to Quantify Transplant Outcomes"
Hannah Valantine, MD
Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity

"Mechanosensing at Cell-cell and Cell-matrix Adhesions"
Alex Dunn, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Stanford School of Medicine

de Jesus Perez: "Precision Medicine in PAH"
Spiekerkoetter: "Targeting BMPR2 Deficiency in PAH"
Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD and Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD, PhD
Assistant Professors of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), Stanford School of Medicine

"Understanding and Manipulating Mitochondrial Dynamics"
Gerald W. Dorn, II, MD
Philip and Sima K Needleman Professor
Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics, Washington University School of Medicine

"The Flipside of Oxidative Stress: The World of Reductive Stress"
Ivor J. Benjamin MD, FAHA, FACC
Center Director, Professor
Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, Medical College of Wisconsin

"Introduction to the Stanford Human Immune Monitoring Center"
Holden Terry Maecker, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford School of Medicine

"The Role of Efferocytosis in Atherosclerosis"
Nicholas Leeper, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) and Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Stanford School of Medicine

"Rebuilding the Failing Heart with Cell Therapy: Roadblocks to Overcome"
Jianyi "Jay" Zhang, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering | T. Michael and Gillian Goodrich Endowed Chair of Engineering Leadership | Professor of Medicine, of Engineering | School of Medicine, School of Engineering | The University of Alabama Birmingham

"Pathophysiologic Implications of Peripheral Artery Disease: It’s About Life and Limb"
Mark A. Creager, MD, FAHA
Director, Heart and Vascular Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

"Role of MG53 in Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy"
Rui-Ping Xiao, MD, PhD
Professor at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing, China

"Cardiac Progenitor Cells for Cardioregenerative Medicine"
Timothy J. Kamp MD, PhD
Co-director, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center | Cellular and Molecular Arrhythmia Research Program, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

"Harnessing the Power of Stem Cells to Cure Obesity and Diabetes"
Jonathan M. Graff, MD, PhD
UT Southwestern

"The Surgical Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Mitral Valve Disease"
Ralph J. Damiano Jr., MD
Washington University School of Medicine

"Stem Cell Exosomes and Myocardial Repair"
Raj Kishore, PhD
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University

"A Systems Genetics Approach to Cardiovascular Disease"
Jake Lusis, PhD
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

"Translational Vascular Biology and the Development of Novel Therapeutics for Peripheral Arterial Disease"
Brian H. Annex, MD
University of Virginia Health System

"Viral Myocarditis: Role for Cytoskeleton and Intercalated Disc"
Kirk Knowlton, MD
Intermountain Heart Institute

"A Tale of Two Ventricles, Clinical and Translational Perspective"
Sushma Reddy, MD, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, and Francois Haddad, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Recent Developments in Cardiac CT"
Koen Nieman, MD, and David Liang, MD
Stanford University Cardiologists

"Engineering Heart Tissue for In Vitro Testing and Cardiac Repair"
Thomas Eschenhagen, MD
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)

"Calcium Circuits in Cardiac Function and Survival"
Evangelia "Litsa" Kranias, PhD
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

"Good Enough Solutions in Biology and Medicine: Coping with Genetic Diversity"
James N. Weiss, MD
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

"Cardiac Rhythmicity: From Development to Disease"
Glenn I. Fishman, MD
New York University School of Medicine

"Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Clinical, Molecular and Genetic Aspects"
David Maron, MD, and Joshua Knowles, MD, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Aging and Longevity Genes and Cardiovascular Disease"
Thomas F. Lüscher, MD, FRCP
University Zurich

"Molecular Basis of Anthracycline-induced Cardiotoxicity"
Edward T.H. Yeh, MD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

"Development-neering"
Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"An Overview of the Million Veteran Program"
Phil Tsao, PhD, and Themistocles Assimes, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Stem Cell Dysfunction in Diabetes"
Aruni Bhatnagar, PhD
University of Louisville

"Precision Medicine: Promise or Proof?"
Mark Hlatky, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Building and Maintaining the Cardiovascular Connectome"
Calum A. MacRae, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital

"Autoimmunity, Regulatory T Cells, Leukotriene B4 and the Evolution of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension"
Mark Nicolls, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

2016 Stanford Drug Discovery Conference

"Innovation Driven Research and Development at Takeda"
Andrew Plump, MD, PhD
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company

"Mechanisms of Biomineralization in the Cardiovascular System"
Linda L. Demer, MD, PhD
UCLA

"S-nitrosylation Signaling in the Cardiovascular System"
Jonathan S. Stamler, MD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

"Cardiac Cellular Reprogramming: Doing the Unthinkable"
Todd Rosengart, MD, FACS
Baylor College of Medicine

"Short Telomeres as a Novel Marker of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy"
Helen M. Blau, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Digitizing Human Beings & Medicine"
Eric J. Topol, MD
The Scripps Research Institute

"IPSC Cardiac Disease Modeling for Drug Discovery"
Mark Mercola, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Low Dose Radiation from Cardiovascular Imaging: What's all the hype about?"
Dominik Fleischmann, MD, Stanford School of Medicine, and Patricia Nguyen, MD, Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System

"Mechanisms of Hereditable Cardiac Disease"
Jonathan Seidman, PhD
Harvard Medical School

"Gut Microbes as Participants and Therapeutic Targets in Cardiometabolic Disease"
Stanley Hazen, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic

"Resynchronization of the Failing Heart and Reengineering SCD Risk"
Gordon F. Tomaselli, MD
Johns Hopkins University

"Can Exercise Teach Us to Treat Heart Failure?"
Anthony Rosenzweig, MD
Beth Israel

"Cardiac Calcium and CaMKII Signaling in Heart Failure and Arrhythmias"
Donald M. Bers, PhD
University of California, Davis

"Redox Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Cell Cycle"
Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD
UT Southwestern

CVI Retreat

"The Beta-1 Adrenergic Receptor Gene Signaling Network in Human Ventricular Myocardium"
Michael R. Bristow, MD, PhD
University of Colorado Cardiovascular Institute

"The Living Heart Project: A Translational Research Initiative "Towards Realistic Cardiac Simulation"
Ellen Kuhl, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine, and

"Extracellular Matrix Patterning and Shear Stress on Vascular Function"
Ngan Huang, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Signaling Pathways Shared in Vascular Inflammation and Oncogenesis"
Dean Y. Li, MD, PhD
Utah School of Medicine

"The State of the Future for Pediatric Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Medicine"
Daniel Bernstein, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Modifiers of Myopathy"
Beth McNally, MD, PhD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

"Understanding the Molecular and Genetic Basis of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection (TAAD)"
Michael S. Parmacek, MD
Univ of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

"Advanced Cardiac CT: The Clinical Value of Functional Applications"
Koen Nieman, MD
Erasmus University, Rotterdam

"Lithoplasty: A paradigm shift in interventional vascular therapy"
Todd Brinton, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"DAPT after DAPT"
David Lee, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Vascular Metabolism"
Zoltan Arany
University of Pennsylvania

"Bioengineering Solutions to Better Treat Heart Rhythm Disorders"
Sanjiv Narayan, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Creating the Arrhythmia Therapy of the Future"
Paul Wang, MD, Stanford School of Medicine

"Nature, Nurture, and Metrics of Immunological Health"
Mark Davis, PhD, and Francois Haddad, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS): State of the Art"
Dipanjan Banerjee, MD, MS, and Richard-Tien Ha, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Regulation of Myocardial Growth and Death by the Hippo Pathway"
Junichi Sadoshima, MD, PhD
Rutgers University

"Translating the Extreme Biology of Pythons to Mammalian Hearts"
Leslie Leinwand, PhD
Univ of Colorado-Boulder

"The Safe Use of Pediatric Anesthetics: What We Have Learned from Animal Models and Imaging"
William Slikker, Jr., PhD
National Center for Toxicological Research (FDA)

"Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells"
Irv Weissman, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

"How to Discover Medicines"
Mark Fishman, MD
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)

"Systems Pathobiology and Network Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease"
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School

"Does the Cardiac Stem Cell Matter?"
James T. Willerson, MD
President, Texas Heart Institute

"Cardiovascular Drug Discovery in 2015"
Anthony "Tony" Muslin, MD
Sanofi

"Do ckit Progenitor Cells Really Regenerate the Heart with New Myocytes?"
Jeffery D. Molkentin, PhD
Cincinnati Children's

"A Viewpoint on the Intersection of Medical and Data Science"
Laura C. Lazzeroni, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Building Coronary Arteries During Mammalian Heart Development"
Kristine Red-Horse, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine

"Cell-based Therapy for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy"
Roberto Bolli, MD
University of Louisville

"Proteomics of Coronary Heart Disease: Development of Risk Prediction Models and a Candidate Protective Protein for Heart Failure "
Richard Lawn, MD
CVI Consulting Professor

"Understanding Muscle Development Disease and Regeneration"
Eric Olson, PhD
UT Southwestern

"The Mechanobiology of Human iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes"
Beth L. Pruitt, PhD, MSc
Stanford School of Medicine

Irving L. Weissman, MD
Director, Stem Cell Institute
Stanford University

"Cardioprotection: A Tale of Two Mechanisms"
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
Chief of Cardiology, UT Southwestern
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Douglas L. Mann, MD
Chief of Cardiology
Washington University, St. Louis

"The Signal and the Noise: Predicting Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke Using Big Data Approaches – Implications for Mobile Health and Wearable Tech"
Mintu Turakhia, MD
Asstant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
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"The Changing Epidemiology of Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke: Is it a Vascular Disease"
Bernard J. Gersh, J MB, ChB, Dphil, FACC
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
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"Cardiac iPSCs for Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery"
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine & Cardiology
Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
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"New Developments in Vascular Dysfunction"
John F. Keaney, Jr., MD
Associate Editor, NEJM
Chief of Cardiology, UMass Medical Center

"Ultasound Molecular Imaging in Cardiovascular Medicine and Drug Development"
Jonathan R. Lindner, MD
Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science Univ
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"Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease: Pathogenesis and Progression"
Ronald Dalman, MD
Stanford University

"Cardiovascular Research: Challenges and Opportunities Locally and Globally"
Kenneth Mahaffey, MD
Stanford University
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"Experiences in Drug Discovery"
P. Roy Vagelos, MD
former CEO of Merck
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