Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Seed Grants
2025 Seed Grant Award Recipients
Multiomic Integration to Decode Biological Aging in Single Ventricle Heart Disease
Sushma Reddy, PhD (PI)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Xiaojie Qiu, PhD (Co-I)
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Ankit Kushwaha, PhD (Co-I)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mapping the embryonic origin of the heart valves across life
Sarah Bowling, PhD (PI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Izabela Kowalczyk, PhD (Co-I)
Postdoctroal Fellow
Casey Gifford, PhD (Co-I)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Xiaojie Qiu, PhD (Co-I)
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Automated Body Composition Analysis for Cardiac Risk Prediction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Evan Zucker, MD (PI)
Associate Professor of Radiology (Pediatric Radiology)
Beth Kaufman, MD (Co-I)
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
Daniel Ennis, PhD (Co-I)
Professor of Radiology
Shreyas Vasanawala, MD, PhD (Co-I)
William R. Brody Professor of Pediatric Radiology and Child Health
Sergios Gatidis, MD (Co-I)
Associate Professor of Radiology
Decoding Genome Architecture and Complex Structural Variations in Congenital Heart Disease
Ioannis Karakikes, PhD (PI)
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Alexander Urban, PhD (Co-PI)
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Oscar Abilez, MD, PhD (Co-I)
Senior Scientist, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Machine Learning Guided Subphenotyping of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms to Identify Precision Medicine Targets for Diagnosing and Predicting Aneurysm Wall Breakdown
Michael Fischbein, MD, PhD (PI)
Thelma and Henry Doelger Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery
Michael Snyder, PhD (Co-PI)
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics
Brady Hislop, PhD (Co-I)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Prospective evaluation of automated vessel-specific coronary calcium and aortic valve calcification scoring for opportunistic cardiovascular screening in lung cancer screening
Joseph Shrager, MD (PI)
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
David Maron, MD (Co-PI)
C. F. Rehnborg Professor and Professor of Medicine
Devanish Kamtam, MD (Co-I)
Visiting Instructor, Cardiothoracic Surgery