Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Seed Grants
2023 Seed Grant Award Recipients
Identifying A Shared Genetic Link Between Congenital Heart Disease and Neurodevelopmental Delay
Casey Gifford, PhD (PI)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Anshul Kundaje, PhD (Co-I)
Associate Professor of Genetics
Elucidating the Role of Inflammation in Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis
Kevin Alexander, MD (PI)
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Joseph Woo, MD (Co-PI)
Norman E. Shumway Professor and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Developing Novel Micro-Sampling Metabolomics Methods for Exercise Testing
Francois Haddad, MD (PI)
Clinical Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Michael Snyder, PhD (Co-PI)
Stanford W. Ascherman, MD, FACS, Professor in Genetics
Organ Care System (OCS)
Michael Ma, MD (PI)
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Perry Choi, MD (Co-I)
Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident
Yellappa Palagani, PhD (Co-I)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Stabilized liposome hydrogels for localized growth factor delivery to the infarcted myocardium
Sarah Heilshorn, PhD (PI)
Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM), Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Joseph Woo, MD (Co-I)
Norman E. Shumway Professor and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
High Throughput In Vitro Immunophenotyping of Cardiomyocyte- Macrophage Interactions
Han Zhu, MD (PI)
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Sean Wu, MD, PhD, FACC (Co-I)
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Developing Multiplexable Prime-Editing iPSCs for Parallel Characterization of Genetic Variants
Masataka Nishiga, MD (PI)
Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute
Li (Stanley) Qi, PhD (Co-I)
Associate Professor of Bioengineering