Frontiers in Cardiovascular Science Archived Talks
2026
From Simulation to Bedside: Digital Twins in Cardiovascular Medicine
Steven Niederer, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine
9/22/2026
Interpreting and Treating the Genome for Inherited Cardiomyopathies
Victoria Parikh, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine
9/15/2026
Stress Response and Metabolism in Cardiometabolic Oncology
Zhao Wang, PhD
Professor, Department of Diabetes & Cancer Metabolism, City of Hope
9/8/2026
Maintainance and Remodeling of the Cardiac Plasma Membrane: New Roles of Dysferlin
Stephan Lehnart, MD
Professor of Translational Cardiology, Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
06/23/2026
Wearable Ultrasound Technology for Cardiovascular Monitoring
Sheng Xu, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine (Department Research)
and, By Courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University School of Medicine
6/16/2026
Alternative Splicing and Therapeutic Aspects in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA
Professor and Head
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Czarina M. & Humberto S. Lopez Endowed Chair
Associate Director, Sarver Heart Center
University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson
6/9/2026
Immunomodulation and Cardiovascular Disease: Lessons Learned from HIV and COVID-19
Priscilla Hsue, MD
Chief of Cardiology, UCLA , the Chizuko and Nobuyuki Kawata Chair in Cardiology, and Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
6/2/2026
Evolution of Anticoagulation Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine
Marco Perez, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine
5/26/2026
Beating Breathlessness: Transforming Outcomes for Patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis
Toby Maher, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Director of Interstitial Lung Disease at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
5/12/2026
Dysfunctional Fat and the Metabolic Heterogeneity of Obesity
Tracey Laughlin, MD
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), Stanford University School of Medicine
5/5/2026
Discovery, Design, and Repair: Developing Next Generation Cardiovascular Therapeutics
Mark Mercola, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular) and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine
4/21/2026
Heart Development and Disease: Stem Cells, Engineered Tissues, and Artificial Intelligence
Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute; Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and by courtesy, Pediatrics
Stanford University, School of Medicine
4/14/2026
The Pause Before the Leap: The Role of NelfA-pol II Complex in Cardiac Transcriptional Regulation
Danish Sayed, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, Rutgers NJMS
4/7/2026
Beyond the Obvious: Emerging Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets in Hypertension
Tomasz Guzik, MD, PhD, FRSE
Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Edinburgh and Editor-in-Chief, Cardiovascular Research, University of Edinburgh
3/31/2026
Life is Full of Surprises, Except When You Need One
Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and by courtesy, Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
3/24/2026
Clinical Trial of a Novel Elastase Inhibitor to Construct the Framework for Disease Modification in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Roham Zamanian, MD
The James & Yvonne Wood Professor of Pulmonary Vascular Medicine
Director, Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Associate Director, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
3/17/2026
From Genes to Physiology: Lessons Learned from a Genetically Engineered Minipig Model of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Ferhaan Ahmad, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Radiology, and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Program; Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program; Editor-in-Chief, Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine; Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine; University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
3/10/2026
Rethinking the Etiology of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Moving Beyond the Monogenic Hypothesis
Bradley Maron, MD
Professor of Medicine; Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program; Co-Director of the University of Maryland-Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC); and Director of Scientific Operations, UM-IHC, School of Medicine; Senior Associate Dean for Precision Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
3/3/2026
From Physiological Mapping to Precision Models of Cardiac Rhythm
Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Stanford University School of Medicine
2/24/2026
The Blood-Brain Barrier and Beyond: Complex Invitro Models for Transport and Neurological Disease
Roger Kamm, PhD
Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
2/17/2026
The Project Baseline Health Study and the SEAMLSS Journey
Francois Haddad, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
1/27/2026
Mechanisms of Cell Identity Maintenance during Cardiac Reprogramming and Aging
Alexandre Colas, PhD
Associate Dean of Admissions, Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Associate Professor, Center for Cardiovascular and Muscular Diseases, Sand Burnham Prebys
1/20/2026
Clonal Hematopoiesis in Human Aging and Disease
Siddhartha Jaiswal, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
1/13/2026
The Future of Personalized mRNA Therapeutics
John Cooke, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Houston Methodist
Professor, Weill Cornell Graduate School
Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University
1/6/2026