Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Archived Talks
2025
Influence of Lifestyle and Environment on Cardiovascular Health
Filip Swirski, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
The Arthur and Janet C. Ross Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Professor of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
11/11/2025
Is HFpEF a Systemic Disease of Accelerated Senescence? Insight through IGFBP7
Peter Liu, MD
Director, Cardiac Function Laboratory, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Professor, University of Ottawa
Professor, University of Toronto
10/28/2025
New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to Decode Endothelial Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Disease
Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD
Associate Professor (Research) of Surgery
(Vascular Surgery), Stanford University School of
Medicine
10/21/2025
New Discoveries in Mitochondrial Metabolism
John W. Elrod, PhD, FISHER
W.W. Smith Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Aging + Cardiovascular Discovery Center
Lewis Katz School of Medicine
10/14/2025
Coronary and Cardiac Lymphatic Vessels in Heart Development and Regeneration
Ellen (Ching) Lien, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
10/7/2025
Role of Adventitial Fibroblast in Atherosclerosis
Paul Cheng, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University
9/30/2025
Therapeutically Targeting the Heart-Brain Axis for Cardiac Arrhythmias
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
9/23/2025
Alpha-1A Adrenergic Receptors: The Adaptive Arm of the Cardiac Response to Chronic Catecholamine Stimulation
Brian Jensen, MD
Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, UNC Division of Cardiology, UNC McAllister Heart Institute
9/16/2025
Vasa Vasorum (Dys)Function in Human Aortic Disease
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
6/10/2025
Solving the Genotype-Phenotype Conundrum of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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
6/10/2025
Pioneering Disease-Modifying Therapies for Ischemic Heart Disease
Patricia Nguyen, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine
6/3/2025
Universal Source of Human Bioenergetics
Phillip Yang, MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine
5/27/2025
Multi-Organ Platforms Containing Human Cardiac, Neuronal, Liver and Other Organ Mimics for Efficacy and Safety Evaluation of Therapeutics
James Hickman, PhD
Professor, University of Central Florida
5/20/2025
Cytoskeletal Remodeling in Cardiac Cells: Orchestrating the Response to Cardiac Injury
Thomas Hund, PhD
Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
Director, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University
5/13/2025
Deciphering the Genetic Blueprint of CAD: Insights From Nearly Two Decades of GWAS
Themistocles (Tiim) Assimes, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine
5/6/2025
TGFβ Signaling from Fetal Cardiomyocytes Programs Fibroblast Maturation and ECM Content That Reciprocally Directs Cardiomyocyte Differentiation
Jeff Molkentin, PhD
Professor, Division Director, Molecular Cardiovascular Biology;
Executive Co-Director, The Heart Institute;
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
4/22/2025
A Machine that Builds Itself: Biophysical Mechanisms Underlying Sarcomerogenesis
Alexander Dunn, PhD
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University School of Medicine
4/15/2025
Cardiovascular Disease and Health in the Women’s Health Initiative: Opportunities for Collaboration
Marcia Stefanick, PhD
Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center), of Obstetrics and Gynecology and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
4/8/2025
An Embryonic Artery-Forming Niche Reactivates In Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Mark Nicolls, MD
Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine
4/1/2025
Crafting The Stem Cell Niches: Advancing Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering through Microenvironment Engineering
Janeta Zoldan, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
3/25/2025
Structural Insights Into Novel Treatments for Heart Failure Targeting Leaky Ryanodine Receptors
Andrew R. Marks, MD
Chair and Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Columbia University
3/18/2025
Microvascular Dysfunction in Congenital Heart Disease
Sushma Reddy, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Stanford University School of Medicine
3/11/2025
Impact of Ectonucleotidases on Cardiovascular Disease
Richard Gumina, MD, PhD
James W. Overstreet Chair in Cardiology & Associate Dean of Convergent Research
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
3/4/2025
Targeting eNAMP/TLR4 Signaling and Innate Immunity to Address an Unmet Need in Pulmonary Hypertension
Joe G.N. “Skip” Garcia
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
2/25/2025
Communicating What to Eat – To Netflix or Not
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Rehnborg Farquhar Professor, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine
2/18/2025
Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease: Defining How the World’s Two Leading Killers Interact and How They Can Be Simultaneously Targeted
Nicholas Leeper, MD
Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery) and of Medicine (Cardiovascular); Stanford University School of Medicine
2/11/2025
Heart Regeneration
Bernhard Kuhn, MD
David Wallace-Starr Foundation Professor of Pediatric Clinical Cardiology, Pediatrics; Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology & Cell and Developmental Biology; Weill Cornell Medical College
1/28/2025
Age-Specific Mechanisms of Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Carmen (Kika) Sucharov, PhD
Professor; Director, Pediatric Cardiovascular Research Laboratory
MSTP Associate Program Director of Thesis Education, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
1/21/2025
Drug Discovery for Aging Biology
Toren Finkel, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology, Aging Institute
University of Pittsburgh
1/14/2025