News Archive
2025
- Understanding Efferocytosis as a Key to Fighting Cardiovascular Disease - April 8, 2025
- Disparities in Amyloidosis Mortality - A Persistent Underdetection? - April 8, 2025
- Using Gene Activity Analysis to Repurpose Existing Drugs for Genetic Heart Disease - April 2, 2025
- Congrats to the February 2025 Travel Awardees - March 1, 2025
- Hypertension During Pregnancy: Impacts on Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease - February 28, 2025
- A strong National Institutes of Health is critical for the future of biomedical research and innovation - February 19, 2025
- Protecting the Heart During the Fight Against Cancer - February 20, 2025
- Faculty Spotlight: The Transformative Power of Science and Medicine with Dr. Fatima Rodriguez - February 3, 2025
- How Mitigating the Damaging Impact of High Shear Stress on Blood Vessels Could Stop PAH Progression - January 22, 2025
- AI Model To Predict Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity - January 22, 2025
- mRNA Delivery of Gene Therapy using Extracellular Vesicles Produces Better Immune Response than AAV and LNP Delivery - January 20, 2025
- Using human iPSCs to Explore the Cardiovascular Impact of Nicotine Across Diverse Populations - 12/19/2024
- CVI Representation at the 2024 AHA Scientific Sessions - 11/8/2024
- Contrats to the 2024 Boring Trust Research Awardees - 11/5/2024
- Semaglutide's Role in Reducing Heart Disease Risk - 10/29/2024
- The Power of Muscle Stem Cells’ Mechanical Memory - 10/24/2024
- Faculty Spotlight: From Musician to Physician Scientist with Dr. William Goodyer - 10/23/2024
- Unraveling the Heart of Long COVID - 10/14/2024
- Drs. Zhenan Bao, Steven Chu, and Joseph Wu elected as inaugural fellows of the Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering - 9/24/2024
- Trojan Horse Therapy Targets Heart Disease without Harmful Side Effects - 9/17/2024
- Simulations Reveal Optimal Strategy for Surgery - 8/14/2024
- Faculty Spotlight: Every Heartbeat is a Data Point with Dr. Jonathan Myers - 5/29/2024
- Using Brain Imaging to Measure Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients with Cognitive Impairment - 5/29/2024
- Flipping a Switch from Harm to Help - 5/28/2024
- Dr. Joseph Wu awarded Honorary Professorship at Kaohsiung Medical University - 4/1/2024
- Dr. Ngan F. Huang Inducted into the 2024 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows - 3/28/2024
- Revealing the Path: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 2/14/2024
- Faculty Spotlight: Regenerative Bioengineer, Ngan Huang - 2/6/2024
- Understanding Long QT Syndrome Caused by Genetic Variants - 1/24/2024
- Improving Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis and Treatment - 1/5/2024
- Changing Behaviors: Personalized Prompts from an App Increase Your Physical Activity - 12/19/2023
- Stanford-UPenn-Duke-Weill Cornell Cardiovascular Research Symposium Poster Award - 12/15/2023
- Reversing a disease: FOXF1 fixes Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 12/13/2023
- Breakthrough in Stroke Prevention: Cutting-Edge Imaging Technology Identifies High-Risk Patients - 11/29/2023
- CVI Director Joseph C. Wu Delivers Message of Hope in AHA Presidential Address - 11/14/2023
- A Better Way to Predict Complex Genotypes with Limited Data - 10/23/2023
- CVI’s Biomarker Core Detects Clues to Cardiovascular Disease - 10/13/2023
- Chronic Nicotine Exposure’s Interference with Pluripotent Stem Cell Treatment - 10/13/2023
- Congratulations to our 2023 Dorothy Dee and Marjorie Helene Boring Trust Award - 10/9/2023
- Congratulations to our 2023 CVI Seed Grant Awardees - 10/7/2023
- Faculty Spotlight: Cardio-Obstetrician Katherine Bianco - 10/5/2023
- Leveling the Playing Field in Cardiothoracic Surgery - 10/3/2023
- CVI Celebrates Women in Medicine - 9/1/2023
- Revealing How Hearts Develop in Humans - 9/22/2023
- Novel Imaging Techniques Provide Insight into Pediatric Patients - 9/19/2023
- New AHA president Joseph Wu is a pioneering scientist with an adventurous backstory - 6/28/2023
- Forming New Blood Vessels: Moving Towards Treating Ischemic Disease - 6/21/2023
- Wanting More Wnt: New Mechanism Underlying Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 6/14/2023
- Congrats to our May 2023 CVI Travel Award Recipients - 5/2023
- Ngan F. Huang, PhD, receives Veteran Affairs Research Career Scientist Award - 3/29/2023
- Stanford Medicine surgeons perform first beating-heart transplants from cardiac death donors - 4/19/2023
- Faculty Spotlight: Precision Pediatrician, Sushma Reddy - 4/17/2023
- Consider Fast Stress Relaxation for improved Tissue Engineering - 4/18/2023
- Stanford CVI Biobank Invests iPSCs to Further Research - 4/13/2023
- Can Your Heart Predict a Cancer Diagnosis? - 4/12/2023
- Timeliness of Hemodialysis Necessary for Postoperative Care - 4/11/2023
- (Un)Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place via Genome Sequencing - 4/6/2023
- Keystone Symposia Conference on Heart Development and Disease: From Genes to Cures - 4/4/2023
- Ngan F. Huang, PhD, receives Veteran Affairs Research Career Scientist Award - 3/29/2023
- Why More Women Should Lead Clinical Trials - 3/24/2023
- Stopping Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Progression - 3/9/2023
- Congratulations to our 2022 CVI Manuscript Awardees - 2/9/2023
- Novel Approach to Generate Stem Cell Induced Cardiac Pericytes - 2/8/2023
- Joseph Wu and Che-Chong Chen on alcohol intolerance - 1/31/2023
- Deep Learning Platform to Better Determine Risk of Drug-Induced Arrhythmias - 1/18/2023
- Faculty Spotlight: Cardiac Psychologist, Katharine Sears Edwards - 1/12/2023
- CVI Members Awarded J.E. Wallace Sterling Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine - 1/10/2023
- Harnessing the power of exosomes for regenerative therapies - 1/6/2023
- devCellPy: Finding Strong Signals in Noisy RNAseq Data - 12/9/2022
- 18 CVI Scientists Recognized as Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers - 11/17/2022
- Novel findings on extracellular matrix stiffness effects on endothelial cells and role in atherosclerosis at a single-cell level - 11/4/2022
- CVI Members Presenting at the 2022 AHA Scientific Sessions - 11/4/2022
- CVI Early Career Scientists Celebrate Halloween - 11/1/2022
- Congratulations to our November 2022 Travel Award Recipients - 11/2022
- Stanford Medicine Heart Transplant: Exceptional Growth, Outcomes and Accomplishments - 10/25/2022
- Changing gene expression at a distance: New insights into the genetic landscape of vascular cells’ response to shear stress - 10/13/2022
- Using AI to Catch More Cases of Peripheral Artery Disease - 10/12/2022
- Optical Imaging to Help Eradicate Damage to the Cardiac Conduction System - 10/10/2022
- Immune Reaction Gone Awry Causes Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 10/7/2022
- Novel Validation of Patient-Specific Blood Flow Model - 9/28/2022
- CVI’s Outstanding Women in Medicine - 9/27/2022
- Cardio-Obstetric Programs Reduce Socioeconomic Disparities in Pregnancies - 9/21/2022
- A Novel Metabolic Pathway to Treat Heart Failure - 9/12/2022
- Unraveling the Mystery of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Myocarditis - 9/2/2022
- Worsening Cardiovascular Health Trends in Asian American Subgroups - 8/19/2022
- Congratulations to our August 2022 Travel Award Recipients - 8/8/2022
- Diverse Population Data Sheds Light on Genetics Underlying Coronary Artery Disease - 8/3/2022
- Creating Cancer Therapeutics with Decreased Risk for Cardiovascular Disease - 7/1/2022
- Gender Pay Gap for Academic Physicians - 6/29/2022
- Repurposing Tamoxifen: How a breast cancer drug can treat cardiomyopathy - 6/14/2022
- Heart artery plaque immune cells cross-react with virus and vascular proteins – a potential cause of heart attack - 5/13/2022
- Congratulations to our 2022 Seed Grant Recipients - 5/11/2022
- Finding a Therapy for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy - 4/29/2022
- Long-term Effects of Immunosuppressive Drugs on Human Hearts - 4/28/2022
- Treating Atrial Fibrillation: Over 1 Million Cryoballoon Ablation Procedures - 3/29/2022
- Curbing Cancer: Don't Cleave that OPN - 3/25/2022
- Detecting Risk of Peripheral Arterial Disease - 3/21/2022
- How to Become a Heart Surgeon - 3/17/2022
- Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD, selected as AHA President-Elect - 3/10/2022
- Personalizing Cardiovascular Disease Prevention - 3/7/2022
- Understanding that Different Leaflets Have Different Effects in Calcific Aortic Stenosis - 3/3/2022
- Congratulations to our 2021 CVI Manuscript Award Winners - 2/2022
- Congratulations to the Inaugural CVI Recognition Awardees - 2/2022
- Scaffolding as a Platform for Cell Delivery for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Therapy - 1/4/2022
- Understanding How Statins Prevent Cardiovascular Disease but Increase Diabetes Risk - 1/3/2022
- How mutations in a single gene can prematurely age heart muscle cells - 12/15/2021
- Congratulations to our 2021 Travel Award Recipients! - 12/2021
- Victor J. Dzau Distinguished Lecture: The War on Heart Failure - 12/2021
- Congratulations to our 2021 Seed Grant Award Recipients! - 12/2021
- Multi-omics Approach Sheds Light on the Leading Inherited Cause of Heart Failure - 12/6/2021
- Cardiologists Ronglih Liao and Paul Cheng Receive Awards - 12/3/2021
- Machine-learning to predict right ventricular heart failure in LVAD patients - 12/3/2021
- Does major surgery impact the development of Alzheimer’s Disease? - 12/1/2021
- CVI Members Presenting at the 2021 Scientific Sessions - 11/12/2021
- More Hearts, Shorter Waits, and Fewer Deaths – with a Great Bottom Line - 11/11/2021
- Steps towards simultaneously treating diabetes and fatty liver disease - 9/29/2021
- Congratulations to Dr. Kristy Red-Horse on being named HHMI investigator - 9/23/2021
- Combining "Disease in a Dish" and "Drug Discovery in a Dish" to Improve Patient Care - 9/9/2021
- How A Former Retrovirus Contributes to Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 8/25/2021
- Importance of Diversity in High-impact Cholesterol Treatment Trials - 8/6/2021
- Discovery of a new biomarker for pulmonary arterial hypertension - 8/4/2021
- What Contributes to a Spongy, Thick Heart Muscle: Understanding Non-compaction of the Heart - 8/2/2021
- Innovative Method to Better Understand How Protein Isoforms are Disease-associated - 7/27/2021
- Inaugural Gambhir Symposium honors, discusses late researcher’s work - 7/21/2021
- Leveraging Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patient Cells for Drug Discovery - 7/19/2021
- The Ticking Clock of Aging - 7/12/2021
- How Does Research Experience Shape Your Future - 6/15/2021
- Using Patient Genes to Further Understand Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 6/16/2021
- Compensating for a Defective Gene: A New Potential Treatment for Heart Failure - 6/9/2021
- Using a Cancer Drug to Advance Stem Cell Therapy - 6/7/2021
- Bad News Made Better: How an App Helps Explain Lung Cancer Surgery - 5/3/2021
- Linking Sugar Metabolism to Cell Proliferation in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 4/27/2021
- Tiny smoke particles could make wildfires particularly harmful to human health - 4/23/2021
- Reversing Genetic Damage in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 4/23/2021
- Treating Heart Failure from the Outside In - 4/22/2021
- 2021 Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium Event Recordings - 4/19–20/2021
- As Easy as ABC: From GWAS to Genes to Disease - 4/14/2021
- Congratulations to Dr. Joseph C. Wu for receiving the 2021 Honorary Lifetime Member from Society of Toxicology - 3/25/2021
- Manganese-based MRI: A sensitive and safe way to directly visualize heart cell viability - 3/18/2021
- 13 Years in the Making – Immunotherapy for Scleroderma - 3/17/2021
- Addressing the Energy Needs of the Failing Heart - 3/15/2021
- Purifying Stem Cells of Heart Muscle - 2/25/2021
- MicroRNAs may hold key to treating pulmonary arterial hypertension - 2/23/2021
- Congratulations 2020 CVI Manuscript Award Winners! - 2/20/2021
- Harnessing the Immune System to Treat Vascular Inflammation - 1/27/2021
- The Problem with Pharmacogenetic Testing - 1/27/2021
- STEMPod Leaders: Listen to Dr. Joseph Wu, Director of Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, discuss about heart diseases, therapeutic potential of drugs, genome editing, stem cells, and his path to cardiovascular medicine. - 1/27/2021
- Understanding how cellular stress contributes to cell survival - 1/26/2021
- Risks of Cryopreserving Cells for Drug Testing - 1/12/2021
- Exposure to Air Pollution Can Put Adolescents at Risk for Cardiovascular Disturbances - 12/11/2020
- Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Arrhythmia and Sudden Death - 12/9/2020
- Leveraging Innovative Technologies to Solve a Medical Mystery - 12/7/2020
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Patient Cells Share Insights - 12/4/2020
- Shedding light on pulmonary arterial hypertension - 11/30/2020
- Thirteen CVI Institute members are among the world's most highly cited researchers in 2020 - 11/30/2020
- Hearts, Airlocks, and Asteroids: New Research Flies on 21st SpaceX Cargo Mission - 11/17/2020
- More than half of in-hospital deaths from COVID-19 among Black, Hispanic patients, study finds - 11/17/2020
- Taking a Closer Look at our Lungs: The Discovery of Two Capillary Cell Types - 11/11/2020
- Congratulations to the 2020 Seed Grant Award Recipients - 11/5/2020
- Heart cells speak a common language with different accents - 11/3/2020
- Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professorship in Translational Medicine announced - 10/30/2020
- Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Valentine for her election into the National Academy of Medicine - 10/30/2020
- How Oxygen Hurts Our Hearts - 10/27/2020
- Learning from 3D Engineered Heart Tissue - 10/16/2020
- Not all grafts are created equal: Improving valve-sparing aortic root surgery - 10/6/2020
- Tailoring health care to you - 10/6/2020
- A Molecular Switch Governing Pathological Changes in Heart Muscle Cell Shape - 9/30/2020
- New genes identified that help predict abdominal aortic aneurysm risk - 9/28/2020
- Tracking Down Unhealthy Heart Rhythms: Introducing the Elastrode - 9/14/2020
- Precision Drug Design: Using patient cells to improve treatments - 9/14/2020
- A Subset of Cells That Can Break Your Heart - 9/11/2020
- Using genetics and personalized medicine to treat cardiovascular disease - 9/9/2020
- Scaffolds Instead of Solutions — Safe and Effective RNA Therapy for Peripheral Arterial Disease - 9/4/2020
- Change in Protocol? Heart Transplants for Amyloidosis Patients - 8/28/2020
- Calcineurin Bound — A New Mechanism to Help Explain Heart Failure - 8/21/2020
- An Improved Stem Cell-Based Treatment for Peripheral Arterial Disease - 8/12/2020
- When Viruses Give Back — How BANCR Helps Hearts Develop - 8/7/2020
- From the heart: Stanford cardiology chief reflects on his experience as a Black physician - 8/4/2020
- Understanding Emphysema — The Role of HIF-2α - 8/4/2020
- Clinical Trial in a Dish: A novel strategy for drug development in heart disease published in Science Translational Medicine - 7/29/2020
- COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease: from basic mechanisms to clinical perspectives - 7/20/2020
- Enabling maturation for improved heart cell modeling - 7/22/2020
- Expanding Human Cardiomyocytes for Cardiac Repair - 7/2/2020
- Sacubitril/Valsartan Act on Exosomes to Facilitate Heart Repair - 7/2/2020
- Treating the Heart of the Matter: Learning How to Prevent Plaque Formation - 6/16/2020
- Exosomes — A Potential Alternative to Stem Cells for Treating Heart Attacks - 6/15/2020
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awarded to CVI investigators to investigate vascular disease in black and Hispanic patients - 6/10/2020
- Stimulating stem cells to help COVID-19 patients recover - 6/8/2020
- Invasive Intervention or Not? How to Treat Coronary Disease - 6/1/2020
- Stanford Medicine study details molecular effects of exercise - 5/28/2020
- Q&A: Cardiologist Fatima Rodriguez on the AHA’s COVID-19 patient data registry - 5/27/2020
- Using Math to Understand COVID-19 Outbreak Dynamics - 4/30/2020
- Thomas Rando and four other medical school professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 4/23/2020
- Decreasing Risks After Heart Transplantation - 4/22/2020
- Molecular Signatures of Statins on Human Cardiomyocytes - 4/7/2020
- More than $14 million in research grants awarded to 4 teams—Stanford, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Michigan—for health technology solutions focused on heart and brain health. - 4/2/2020
- Single-cell RNA sequencing in cardiovascular development, disease and medicine - 3/30/2020
- Reducing risk after cardiac surgery - 3/24/2020
- New Insights into Mechanisms Underlying Congenital Heart Disease - 3/20/2020
- 5 Questions: Robert Harrington on research, health equity and the gender gap in cardiology - 2/19/2020
- Natural Heart Regeneration - 2/20/2020
- Salamanders and Stem cells: the key to unlocking patient-specific therapies - 2/11/2020
- Mouse Model Developed to Study Right Ventricular Recovery in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - 1/29/2020
- Congratulations to the December 2019 CVI Travel Award Recipients - 1/7/2020
- Joseph Wu elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Additional link: Dr. Joseph Wu Elected 2019 AAAS Fellow - 11/26/2019
- ENLIGHTEN-ing a Population - 11/25/2019
- Tools to Understand Heart Contraction - 11/25/2019
- Joseph Wu elected to National Academy of Medicine - 11/18/2019
- Through Apple Heart Study, Stanford Medicine researchers show wearable technology can help detect atrial fibrillation - 11/13/2019
- Understanding Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - 10/29/2019
- Unconscious Bias: The Double-Edged Sword - 10/21/2019
- Joseph Wu inducted into the National Academy of Medicine - 10/21/2019
- Eldrin Lewis appointed as Cardiovascular Medicine division chief effective March 2, 2020 - 10/8/2019
- Achilles’ heel identified in several neurodegenerative diseases - 9/23/2019
- Heart Mechanics: TIP Awardees Investigate Models of Pulmonary Heart Dysfunction - 9/17/2019
- Pressuring the heart to regenerate - 9/18/2019
- Key Findings: Many U.S. Children and Teens Are Living With a Heart Defect - 9/17/2019
- Joshua W. Knowles, MD, PhD, awarded R01 from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease - Project title: "Mechanisms of NAT2 Regulation of Insulin Resistance and Mitochondrial Dysfunction" - 9/11/2019
- A method to shed light on the genetic underpinnings of complex human traits - 9/11/2019
- High blood pressure may prevent cognitive decline in a subset of older patients - 9/5/2019
- Building 3D tissue scaffolds to repair damaged hearts - 9/4/2019
- An unmet need for integrated mental health services for female cardiac patients - 9/4/2019
- Accurately assessing ASCVD risk in distinct Asian and Hispanic subgroups - 9/3/2019
- Inflammation triggers silent mutation to cause deadly lung disease - 8/29/2019
- Stem cell researcher Irving Weissman awarded Albany Prize - 8/20/2019
- Researchers discover gel reduces scar tissue after surgery in animals - 8/7/2019
- AHA's Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology selects Nicholas Leeper as 2019 ATVB Special Recognition Awardee in Vascular Biology - 8/5/2019
- Identity-shifting cells protect against rupture in atherosclerosis - 7/29/2019
- iPSCs to model cardiac fibrosis - 7/26/2019
- David Maron to lead the Stanford Prevention Research Center (SPRC) as Division Chief - 7/22/2019
- Researchers identify possible drug target for deadly heart condition - 7/17/2019
- Modeling patient-specific responses to common calcium channel blockers using iPS cells - 7/15/2019
- Using machine learning to predict heart failure - 7/11/2019
- Dr. Ronald L. Dalman elected president-elect of the Society for Vascular Surgery - 7/9/2019
- Using iPSC Cardiomyocytes to Model Diastolic Dysfunction in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - 7/8/19
- Controlling Mitochondrial Dynamics to Help the Hearts of Huntington's Disease Patients - 7/2/19
- Molecular Control of Blood Vessel Regeneration in Response to Injury - 7/2/19
- Stanford-led team receives $10 million award for myosin research - 6/24/2019
- Understanding Metabolism and Maturation of iPSC Cardiomyocytes - 5/31/2019
- E-cigarette use, flavorings may increase heart disease risk, study finds - 5/27/2019
- 3D nanostructures improve skeletal muscle regeneration - 5/28/2019
- Lab-grown heart cells reveal secrets of “kissing bug” disease - 5/21/2019
- Development at the Heart of Science - 5/10/2019
- Countercurrents in Cardiothoracic Surgery - 5/20/2019
- BioADD lab helps researchers develop safer and more effective drugs - 5/13/2019
- Congratulations to the 2018 CVI Manuscript Award Winners!
- Congratulations to the March 2019 CVI Travel Award Winners!
- Application of Patient-Specific Hemodynamics to the Treatment of Kawasaki Disease - 4/23/2019
- Drug reduces risk of kidney failure in people with diabetes, study finds - 4/14/2019
- AI identifies risk of cholesterol-raising genetic disease - 4/11/2019
- A Mathematical Representation of Precision Medicine - 4/1/2019
- A new role for PPARγ in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) - 3/25/2019
- Stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte tool could improve drug safety - 3/21/2019
- Modified immune cells issue alert when detecting cancer in mice - 3/18/2019
- Drug could alleviate side effects of chemo for breast cancer patients - 3/14/2019
- Apple Heart Study demonstrates ability of wearable technology to detect atrial fibrillation - 3/16/2019
- Stanford researchers have developed a tool to isolate specific subpopulations of cardiovascular cells to provide a model for more precise drug testing - 3/14/2019
- A Human iPSC Double-Reporter System Enables Purification of Cardiac Lineage Subpopulations with Distinct Function and Drug Response Profiles - 3/14/2019
- Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Trastuzumab-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction in Breast Cancer Patients - 3/14/2019
- Metformin May Limit AAA Disease Progression - 3/7/2019
- Sharon Hunt Reflects on Women Leaders in Cardiac Transplantation - 3/7/2019
- Nicotine’s effect on the developing embryo studied in new model - 3/4/2019
- Nicotine may harm human embryos at the single-cell level - 3/1/2019
- Failure to take statins leads to higher mortality - 2/14/2019
- Stanford physicians lead country's top cardiovascular organizations - 2/11/2019
- Why are so few interventional cardiologists women? A new study offers a few clues - 2/4/2019
- Novel mechanism identified for widely used diabetes drug - 1/29/2019
- Why do some hearts get too thick? - 1/24/2019
- Protein promotes small artery growth to damaged heart tissue in mice - 1/24/2019
- Paul Yock wins the National Academy of Engineering's Russ Prize - 1/23/2019
- AI demonstrates potential to identify irregular heart rhythms as well as humans - 1/17/2019
- Dr. Gambhir and Dr. Wu Recognized as Highly Cited Researchers of 2018 (12/3/2018)
- June-Wha Rhee, MD, Clinical Instructor, Cardiovascular Medicine was award a US Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Discovery Award focusing on studying Statin Myopathy (12/20/2018)
- Healing Broken Hearts One Cell at a Time (11/28/2018)
- Scientist Identifies Cellular Gene Signatures for Heart Muscle Regeneration (11/28/18)
- Cancer May Soon Replace Heart Disease as Leading Killer of Affluent Americans (11/12/2018)
- CVI member Talks/Abstracts/Honors for AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 10-12 in Chicago (11/2018)
- Congratulations to our 2018 CVI Seed Grant Award Recipients! (11/7/2018)
- A look at how colds and chronic disease affect DNA expression (11/5/2018)
- Stanford researchers develop tiny nanostraws to deliver molecules to human cells safely and efficiently (10/31/2018)
- Mark Hlatky and Virginia Winn co-PIs on NHLBI grant to study link between preeclampsia and atherosclerosis (10/2018)
- Stanford, Apple describe heart study with over 400,000 participants (10/2018)
- Skeletal stem cells regress when tasked with extensive regeneration (10/24/2018)
- Hundreds of patients with undiagnosed diseases find answers, study reports (10/10/2018)
- Genetics of cholesterol point to possible drug targets for heart disease, diabetes (10/1/2018)
- Height may be a risk factor for varicose veins (9/24/2018)
- Researchers can forecast risk of deadly vascular condition from genome sequence (9/6/2018)
- Diseased heart muscle cells have abnormally shortened telomeres (8/27/2018)
- Dr. Elan Burton selected by the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity to receive funds to attend the AAMC Junior Minority Faculty Career Development Seminar (8/3/2018)
- Ngan Huang, PhD, receives funding from National Science Foundation for fundamental biomedical engineering research onboard the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory for the benefit of life on Earth (8/2/2018)
- Kevin Alexander receives American Heart Association-Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program award (8/1/2018)
- Ronald Dalman elected vice president of the Society for Vascular Surgery (7/11/2018)
- Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, M.D., Ph.D., receives Benedict Cassen Prize for Molecular Imaging Research (6/25/2018)
- Study solves mystery of genetic-test results for patient with suspected heart condition (6/26/18)
- Scientists edit heart muscle gene in stem cells, may be able to predict risk (6/18/2018)
- Gene editing technology may improve accuracy of predicting individuals’ heart disease risk (6/18/2018)
- CRISPR technology may improve accuracy of predicting heart disease risk (6/18/2018)
- More than $28 million awarded for new atrial fibrillation research centers to improve patient outcomes (6/12/2018)
- Blood test for pregnant women can predict premature birth, Stanford-led study reports (6/7/2018)
- Millions could have incorrect statin, aspirin and blood pressure prescriptions (6/4/2018)
- 2018 Drug Discovery Conference | Summary and Video (5/7/2018)
- Are mechanical or biological heart valves best? (4/17/2018)
- Special Circulation Research compendium on Omics, Big Data, and Precision Medicine in Cardiovascular Sciences. With contributions by Joseph Wu, Michael Snyder, Kevin Wang, and Howard Chang (4/27/2018)
- Physical activity helps fight genetic risk of heart disease (4/9/2018)
- Roy Vagelos to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Stanford Drug Discovery Meeting (4/9/2018)
- Congratulations to the 2017 Manuscript Award Winners! (4/5/2018)
- Congratulations to the March 2018 Travel Award Winners! (3/28/2018)
- Sharon Paige and Mingxia Gu win 1st prizes for their oral presentations at the First Annual Heart Center Research Day (3/27/2018)
- Low-fat or low-carb? It’s a draw, study finds (2/20/2018)
- Induced pluripotent stem cells could serve as cancer vaccine (2/2018)
- Autologous iPSC-Based Vaccines Elicit Anti-tumor Responses In Vivo (2/2018)
- Slow release peptide analogs prolong survival of transplanted stem cells (2/6/2018)
- Stanford: How weight gain changes your whole body (1/17/2018)
- Daniel Bernstein, MD, Named Associate Dean for Curriculum and Student Scholarship (1/22/2018)
- The secret to building a strong heart lies in blood vessels, Stanford researcher find (1/25/2018)
- Paul Yock Recieves Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education (1/5/2018)
- June-Wha Rhee, MD, Clinical Instructor, Cardiovascular Medicine was award a US Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Discovery Award focusing on studying Statin Myopathy.
12/20/18
- Congratulations to the December 2017 CVI Travel Award Winners (12/2017)
- Congratulations to Mingtao Zhao for his PNAS paper on “Molecular and functional resemblance of differentiated cells derived from isogenic human iPSCs and SCNT-derived ESCs” - Comparing two cellular reprogramming methods from one donor’s cells yields good news for iPSCs (12/2017)
- Mechanical heart valve often the safest choice (11/8/2017)
- Congratulations to the 2017 CVI Seed Grant Awards Winners (11/8/2017)
- Congratulations to Dr. Paul Wang for receiving the American Heart Association Clinical Cardiology Council Distinguished Achievement Award (10/16/2017)
- Congratulations to Dr. George Lui for chairing an AHA scientific statement on Adult Congenital Heart Disease (10/10/2017)
- Cardiovascular symposium on September 21-22 will bring together experts from Stanford, China (8/24/2017)
- Stanford study indicates that more than 99 percent of the microbes inside us are unknown to science (8/22/2017)
- Cell Reports paper shows inadequacy of current humanized mouse model (8/22/2017)
- Tumors caused by pluripotent stem cells can be tackled with radiation, say Stanford researchers (7/27/2017)
- Stanford researchers find intriguing clues about obesity by counting steps via smartphones (7/10/2017)
- CVI congratulates the American Heart Association on its very successful Silicon Valley Heart Ball (7/10/2017)
- 2017 AHA Clinical Research Prize Award: Robert Harrington, MD, FAHA (7/6/2017)
- 2017 AHA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer: Marlene Rabinovitch, MD, FAHA (7/6/2017)
- 2017 AHA George E. Brown Memorial Lecturer: Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD, FAHA (7/6/2017)
- Yuan Zhang from the Sean Wu Lab receives Firestone Medal for undergraduate thesis research (6/28/2017)
- Congratulations to the 2017 Dorothy Dee & Marjorie Helene Boring Trust
recipients (6/19/2017) - Changing the Face of Cardiovascular Medicine: Increasing Gender and Ethnic Diversity (5/25/2017)
- Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Wu for receiving the AHA Merit Award (5/19/2017)
- Study finds first possible drug treatment for lymphedema (5/10/2017)
- Congratulations to our May 2017 CVI Travel Award Winners (5/8/2017)
- Drug discovery conference to draw experts from academia, industry and government | Related: At Stanford conference, a real-life example of how basic research can save lives (4/3/2017)
- Congratulations to Dr. Karim Sallam for receiving the William W. Parmley Award at the 2017 American College of Cardiology meeting (3/21/2017)
- Novel Cardiovascular Therapeutics Summit Begins Feb. 28 (2/28/2017)
- Congratulations to the 2016 Manuscript Award Winners! (2/28/2017)
- Scientists create scorecard index for heart-damaging chemo drugs (2/17/2017)
- Congratulations to our February 2017 CVI Travel Award Winners (2/7/2017)
- Mortality rates from heart disease vary among Hispanic ethnic groups, Stanford study finds (1/18/2017)
- The Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Welcomes Hana Lee as Associate Director (1/1/2017)
- NIH awards $26.4 million to Stanford researchers for physical activity study (12/15/2016)
- Stanford Society of Physician Scholars research grant awarded to Sharon Paige and Francisco Galdos of the Sean Wu Lab (12/8/2016)
- Arun Sharma and Peter Lee discuss about stem cells in space research at the World Stem Cell Summit (12/6/2016)
- Arun Sharma named the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science (12/6/2016)
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute to participate in AHA Precision Medicine Platform (11/15/2016)
- Pinpointing specific cells may help thwart congenital heart disease, new research shows (11/10/2016)
- High-intensity statins linked to better survival rates of cardiovascular patients (11/9/2016)
- Gene could help explain insulin resistance (10/4/2016)
- Dr. Kazuki Kodo, former postdoc at CVI and now Asst Prof at Keio University, uses iPSCs to unravel mechanism of a common congenital heart disease (9/20/2016)
- Congratulations to the 2016 Seed Grants Recipients (9/19/2016)
- Congratulations to the Dorothy Dee & Marjorie Helene Boring Trust Award winners (9/8/2016)
- Heart muscle made from stem cells aid precision cardiovascular medicine (8/18/2016)
- NIH lifts ban on funding research on human-animal chimeras | Wu featured in NPR Video... | Wu featured in Wired article... | Nakauchi featured in Live Science article... (8/5/2016)
- Stanford Medicine Partners with AstraZeneca (7/22/2016)
- Ioannis Karakikes, PhD, Appointed Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (5/1/2016)
- Anti-tumor antibodies could counter atherosclerosis (7/20/2016)
- Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 2016: Stanford-Gachon 3rd Annual Session | Congratulations to Andrew Goldstone for winning the Young Investigator Award! (7/15/2016)
- Congratulations to the June 2016 Travel & Exchange Ideas Award Winners
- This man might make you a new heart... (6/20/2016)
- Congratulations to Dr. Helen Blau for her election into the National Academy of Sciences (5/4/2016)
- Cardiologist and medical innovator Alfred Spivack dies at 87 (5/5/2016)
- CVI welcomes Matthew Whitlock, MD, and Erik Ingelsson, PhD, to the cardiovascular medicine team at Stanford (5/3/2016)
- Congratulations to the 2015 Manuscript Award Winners! (5/1/2016)
- Using iPS Cells to Assess Patient-Specific Chemotherapy-Induced Heart Failure: Step Toward Precision Medicine in Cardio-Oncology (4/20/2016)
- Congratulations to the Spring 2016 CVI Travel Award Recipients (4/10/2016)
- Marlene Rabinovitch, MD, honored for lifetime of contributions (3/15/2016)
- Congratulations to the recipients of the Drug Discovery Conference research prizes (4/5/2016)
- Drs. Woo, Boyd, and Fowler perform rare domino transplant procedure at Stanford Hospital saving two women's lives (3/17/2016)
- One Hundred Years of History at Stanford University: Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2/23/2016)
- Dorothy Dee & Marjorie Helene Boring Trust Award for dedication to cardiovascular research awarded to Christopher Jensen and Charlotte Rajasingh (1/27/2016)
- Congratulations to the 2015 CVI Retreat Poster Winners (12/1/2015)
- Congratulations to Dr. Wu for receiving the inaugural Joseph A. Vita Award at the 2015 American Heart Association meeting in Orlando (12/1/2015)
- Congratulations to Winter Travel Award Recipients (11/30/2015)
- Congratulations to the 2015 CVI Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Winners (11/20/2015)
- Stanford scientists oppose NIH human-animal chimera research ban via letter published in Science (11/6/2015)
- American Heart Association 2015 AHA Scientific Session Talks and Abstracts by CVI and Stanford Researchers (11/5/2015)
- Elevated blood-sugar levels in pregnancy tied to baby's heart-defect risk (10/12/2015)
- Congratulations to the 2015 CVI Seed Award recipients! (10/5/2015)
- Tension helps heart cells develop normally in the lab, according to Stanford engineers (9/30/2015)
- A new study by Pilar Ruiz-Lozano's group and colleagues was published online Sept. 16 in Nature describing a role for Fstl1 (9/16/2015)
- Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Wu for being featured in Circulation Research New Leaders in Cardiovascular Science (9/17/2015)
- Congratulations to Dr. Richard Popp for Gold Medal Award (9/1/2015)
- Congratulations to the Summer Travel Award Winners (8/11/2015)
- Researchers design cheaper, faster, more accurate test to identify gene defects in heart patients (8/11/2015)
- DNA damage seen in patients undergoing CT scanning (7/22/2015)
- CVI researchers to leverage the nation’s largest biobank (7/16/2015)
- Collaboration between Stanford, the Gladstone Institute, and UCSF chosen as one of five centers for Pediatric Cardiac Genomics Consortium Funding (6/22/2015)
- Andrew Lee, CVI MD/PhD Student featured in Nature on “Spotlight on California Innovation" (6/20/2015)
- Molecular cause of heart condition identified by researchers (6/18/2015)
- Ngan Huang, PhD, receives 2015 McCormick-Gabilan Fellowship (6/17/2015)
- Congratulations to the Spring Travel Award Winners (6/11/2015)
- Congratulations to the Tissue Engineering Research Prize Winners (6/10/2015)
- WSDM and Women's Heart Health at Stanford will co-host the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences on April 21-23, 2015 (3/18/2015)
- Congratulations Joshua Knowles and Atsushi Tachibana for receiving ACC Herman K. Gold Young Investigators Award in Molecular and Cellular Cardiology (3/17/2015)
- Dr. Abraham Verghese speaks at the 2015 American College of Cardiology meeting in San Diego on the topic "Mouse Clicks Aren't Medicine" (3/15/2015)
- Congratulations to our 2014 Manuscript Award winners (3/1/2015)
- Stem cell 'tool' grants given to 5 Stanford researchers (2/20/2015)
- Stanford launches major effort to expedite vaccine discovery with $50 million grant (2/29/2015)
- It's CHD Awareness Week: We Need Your Help! (2/9/2015)
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute iPSC Biobank mentioned in Nature Methods news article (2/5/2015)
- Radiation biomarker of cardiac SPECT imaging (2/2/2015)
- Stanford launches major effort to expedite vaccine discovery with $50 million grant (1/29/2015)
- CVI T32 Training Grant on "Mechanism and Innovation in Vascular Disease" renewed till June 2020 (1/12/2015)
- Congratulation to Dr. Michael Fischbein for his paper featured on cover of ATVB (12/17/2014)
- 2014 CVI Member Retreat: The Future of Cardiovascular Medicine & Research (12/9/2014)
- Congratulations to Sam Gambhir who was recently named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (12/1/2014)
- Dr. David Lee featured in Circulation and NEJM (11/17/2014)
- Congratulation to Ping Liang, Feng Lan, and Andrew Lee for receiving the 2014 Basic Science Paper in Circulation (11/17/2014)
- Congratulation to CVI travel award winners (Dec 2014) (11/17/2014)
- American Heart Association 2014 AHA Scientific Session Talks and Abstracts by CVI and Stanford Researchers (11/12/2014)
- Dr. Paul Wang is organizing the Arrhythmia Research Summit at the American Heart Association meeting in Chicago (Wed, Nov 19, 2014). (11/13/2014)
- Josh Knowles, Assistant Professor, and Chief Medical Officer of the FH foundation was one of 150 thought leaders gathered in New York at the FH Global Summit. (11/10/2014)
- 2014 Distinguished Scientist - Mark A. Hlatky (11/3/2014)
- Congratulation to Brian Kobilka, MD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, for his election into the Institute of Medicine! (10/20/2014)
- Dr. Sean M. Wu Receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award (10/6/2014)
- 6th Annual Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium meeting held at Stanford from Sept 29-30, 2014 (10/1/2014)
- 2014 Seed Grant Award Winners (9/30/2014)
- Scientists use stem cells to learn how common mutation in Asians affects heart health (9/24/2014)
- CVI Welcomes Clinical Trial Research Manager Ashima Goel (9/4/2014)
- CVI Welcomes Dr. Doff McElhinney (9/4/2014)
- Joshua Knowles, MD, PhD, appointed as Assistant Professor of Medicine, Prevention and Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease (9/1/2014)
- CVI Congratulates Sanjiv M. Narayan, MD, PhD (8/25/2014)
- New Concerns About an Old Heart Drug (8/11/2014)
- Joseph Wu, MD, PhD discusses Stanford CVI Cardiac iPS Cell Biobank Effort with Modern Tek News on KZSU, Stanford 90.1 FM (8/7/2014)
- Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, discusses Big Data on PRI’s Science Friday (8/7/2014)
- Elsie Gyang, MD, Interviewed by Stanford Medicine at Big Data Conference (8/7/2014)
- Dr. Joseph Wu delivered Keynote Lecture at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Frontiers in Cardiovascular Biology (FCVB) meeting in Barcelona, Spain (7/31/2014)
- 2014 ARR Distinguished Investigators Award (6/13/2014)
- Induced pluripotent stem cell mysteries explored by Stanford researchers (7/29/2014)
- Stanford Medicine Magazine, Summer 2014: Surgeons at Work (7/21/2014)
- The CVI Acknowledges the Support of the Steven M. Gootter Foundation (7/21/2014)
- July 2014 Postdoc Travel Award Winners (7/29/2014)
- Recap of Science News from Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2014 Scientific Sessions (7/18/2014)
- Dr. Sean M. Wu Receives the 2014 David Lawrence Stein Award from the American Heart Association Western Region Affiliate (6/25/2014)
- Mark Hlatky, MD, Receives 2014 AHA Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Recognition of Outstanding Achievement Award (6/25/2014)
- New Stanford blood test identifies heart-transplant rejection earlier than biopsy can (6/18/2014)
- A new era for stem cells in cardiac medicine? A simple, effective way to generate patient-specific heart muscle cells (6/17/2014)
- Gachon-Stanford Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 2014 (6/10/2014)
- Transplanted terminally differentiated induced pluripotent stem cells are accepted by immune mechanisms similar to self-tolerance (5/30/2014)
- Researchers discover that adult kidneys constantly grow and remodel themselves, and how they do it (5/16/2014)
- 2014 Annual Joint Meeting of American Society for Clinical Investigation / Association of American Physicians in Chicago (4/21/2014)
- Dr. Sharon Hunt Receives 2014 Master of the ACC (MACC) Award (4/9/2014)
- American College of Cardiology Scientific Session Abstracts and Talks by Stanford Researchers (3/28/2014)
- “Mechanisms and Innovation in Vascular Disease” T32 grant applications are now being accepted. Due date has been EXTENDED to April 15! (3/17/2014)
- Stanford Medicine Special Report - "Mysteries of the Heart: Yielding to Research" (3/5/2014)
- Dan Bernstein to be editor of Circulation special section on pediatric heart failure and transplantation (2/21/2014)
- 2013-2014 CVI Annual Report (2/4/2014)
- Stanford to help lead collaborative center for stem cell genomics (1/29/2014)
- Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Symposium (1/28/2014)
- FDA panel backs approval of novel antiplatelet drug vorapaxar (1/16/2014)
- Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Welcomes Clinical Research Nurse, Thu Vu (1/1/2014)
- Dr. Paul Armstrong gives the 2013 Louis and Dorothy Kovitz Visiting Professorship Lecture (12/5/2013)
- CVI Welcomes Clinical Trials Manager Edward Finn (12/4/2013)
- CVI Participants at the 2013 AHA Scientific Sessions (11/8/2013)
- Joseph Woo, leading heart surgeon, to head Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery (11/4/2013)
- The importance of AHA funding for cardiovascular research (10/16/2013)
- Congratulations to the 2013 Stanford CVI Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award Recipients (Round Two) (10/29/2013)
- CVI Annual Retreat: September 12-13, 2013 (9/9/2013)
- CHAMPION Trials with Study Author Robert Harrington, MD (9/5/2013)
- Stanford-developed collagen patch speeds repair of damaged heart tissue in mice (8/29/2013)
- Blocking molecular pathway reverses pulmonary hypertension in rats, study finds (8/28/2013)
- Preventing immune rejection of human ESCs (8/19/2013)
- Potential neurological treatments often advance to clinical trials on shaky evidence, study says (7/16/2013)
- Scientists unable to find evidence of ‘embryonic-like’ cells in marrow of adult mice (7/24/2013)
- New mouse model reveals a mystery of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, scientists report (7/7/2013)
- Sean Wu, MD, PhD, has been named an Endowed Faculty Scholar of the Child Health Research Institute and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health at Stanford (7/1/2013)
- 2013 Inaugural CVI Postdoctoral Travel Award Winners (7/1/2013)
- ISSCR plenary session talk on iPSCs for cardiovascular disease modeling and drug screening by Dr. Joseph Wu (6/12/2013)
- Stanford scientists develop efficient zinc-air battery (6/4/2013)
- Diabetes' genetic underpinnings can vary based on ethnic background, studies say (5/23/2013)
- Simple, inexpensive tool helps predict mortality risks (5/22/2013)
- Stanford researchers use data mining to show safety of peripheral artery disease treatment (5/23/2013)
- Protein complex may play role in preventing many forms of cancer, study shows (5/5/2013)
- Anti-CD47 antibody may offer new route to successful cancer vaccination (5/20/2013)
- Researchers develop new technique to track cell interactions in living bodies (5/6/2013)
- Cardiovascular Institute Unveils New Logo (5/16/2013)
- Stephen Quake One of Six Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences (5/2/2013)
- Nobel laureate Brian Kobilka will speak at medical school's commencement (4/8/2013)
- May 22-24 Stanford/Oxford conference will highlight big data's role in biomedicine (4/22/2013)
- Researchers develop new method to assess options for heart-disease surgery (4/22/2013)
- ‘Clinical trials in a dish’ may be more reliable than standard way of measuring drug effects on heart, researchers say (3/21/2013)
- Stem cell agency awards $1.97 million to Stanford autism, heart disorder research (3/20/2013)
- Stem cells entering heart can be tracked with nano-‘hitchhikers,’ scientists say (3/20/2013)
- Francois Haddad, MD, to Lead CVI Biomarker and Phenotype Core Laboratory (3/18/2013)
- Rajesh Dash Awarded “Best Poster” at ACC.13 (3/18/2013)
- Novel anti-clotting drug more effective than Plavix in coronary procedures, study says (3/10/2013)
- American College of Cardiology ABSTRACTS by Stanford Researchers (3/6/2013)
- Medicine for the Rich Is About to Get Cheap Enough for Regular People (2/14/2013)
- Event to mark launch of Stanford center on gender health differences (2/25/2013)
- Stanford interventional cardiologist taking questions on heart health (2/5/2013)
- Flies to hitch ride into space for heart study (1/28/2013)
- Genetic mutation key to cardiac death (1/8/2013)
- Researchers report progress in quest to create objective method of detecting pain (12/17/2012)
- Blood test accurately predicts lymphedema, study shows (12/18/2012)
- Dr. Jennifer Tremmel Featured on Dr. Oz Show (12/19/2012)
- Cost-Effectiveness of FFR-Guided PCI in Patients with Stable Coronary Disease (12/18/2012)
- Minor takes post as dean of School of Medicine (12/5/2012)
- Stanford launches new center to advance 'information age of genomics' (12/3/2012)
- International study points to inflammation as cause of plaque buildup in heart vessels, researchers say (12/2/2012)
- Stanford scientists develop new technique for visualizing blood flow (11/29/2012)
- Patients with treatment-resistant hypertension sought for study (11/20/2012)
- Body may be able to 'coach' transplanted stem cells to differentiate appropriately, study shows (11/19/2012)
- Stanford forum on how food policies affect our nation’s obesity rates posted online (11/14/2012)
- Marathon Man: PHILIP PIZZO NEARS THE END OF HIS REMARKABLE RUN AS DEAN (11/5/2012)
- Robbins leaving Stanford to be new head of Texas Medical Center (9/7/2012)
- Mastering weight-maintenance skills before embarking on diet helps women avoid backsliding, study shows (10/30/2012)
- Researchers develop efficient, protein-based method for creating iPS cells (10/25/2012)
- The Helena Anna Henzl-Gabor Young Women in Science Fund For Postdoctoral Scholars Travel Grant (10/17/2012)
- Should You Get Your Genome Mapped? (9/24/2012)
- Medical education at Stanford gets more interactive by going online (9/28/2012)
- Stanford scientist Brian Kobilka wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry (10/10/2012)
- Highlights of the 2012 CVI Member Retreat (10/8/2012)
- Award honors medical school's work/life flexibility plan, policies (9/24/2012)
- Quake receives 2013 Nakasone Award (9/18/2012)
- Nine Stanford faculty receive NIH funding for innovative research (9/13/2012)
- Lasker Award goes to biochemist James Spudich (9/10/2012)
- Stanford researchers create tiny, wirelessly powered cardiac device (9/4/2012)
- Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids' – and helps solve physiological mystery, too (8/29/2012)
- Stanford researchers dive into the mechancial aspects of living cells (8/1/2012)
- Stanford researchers receive $40 million to study potential stem cell therapies for heart failure and immune disorder (7/26/2012)
- Calvin Kuo wins AHA award for innovative research (8/1/2012)
- Researchers first to determine entire genetic sequence of individual human sperm (7/19/2012)
- Free online tool to provide deeper analysis of microarray data developed by Stanford scientists (7/18/2012)
- Stanford Announces Transcatheter Heart Valve Program (7/11/2012)
- New method enables sequencing of fetal genomes using only maternal blood sample (7/4/2012)
- 5 Questions: Christopher Gardner on non-nutritive sweeteners (7/9/2012)
- The Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) welcomes its first faculty member (7/5/2012)
- Stanford CVI researchers start trial of stem cell treatment for acute myocardial infarction (6/20/2012)
- CARDIA CME A Display of Industry Talent, Experts, and New Insights in the Field (7/2/2012)
- 49ers Push-Up Challenge at Stanford (6/14/2012)
- Medical imaging expert Norbert Pelc named new chair of bioengineering (6/11/2012)
- A Geneticist’s Research Turns Personal (6/2/2012)
- Bioengineer Stephen Quake wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize (6/4/2012)
- Triple transplants--3 days, 3 hearts at Packard Children’s Hospital (5/24/2012)
- Ashley discusses new AHA call for tougher regulation of genetic testing (5/29/2012)
- Study of atrial fibrillation needs participants (5/15/2012)
- Top honor to cardiologist for advancing heart transplant medicine (5/21/2012)
- State stem cell agency awards three grants for development of new therapies at medical school (5/24/2012)
- Highlights from the 2012 Norman E. Shumway, MD, Visiting Professorship Lecture (5/25/2012)
- Six Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences (5/3/2012)
- Stanford launches campaign to advance new era in medicine — here and beyond (5/7/2012)
- Scientists show that lab-made heart cells can be ideal model for disease research, drug testing (4/18/2012)
- Scientists create nanoparticles that home in on brain tumor, increasing accuracy of surgical removal (4/15/2012)
- New genetic regions linked to bone-weakening disease and fractures, researcher says (4/15/2012)
- Research prize for helping make mice comfy – and improving science (3/30/2012)
- Invasive heart test being dramatically overused, study shows (4/6/2012)
- Scientists use public-database search to identify novel receptor with key role in type-2 diabetes (4/9/2012)
- NHLBI gives CVI researchers $5 million for research on stem cells for cardiovascular disease (4/9/2012)
- Pain center receives national recognition (3/26/2012)
- Heart-damaging side effects of cancer drugs under-reported in published studies, researchers say (3/26/2012)
- Genetic markers may help predict fertility decline in women (3/26/2012)
- Single antibody shrinks variety of human tumors transplanted into mice, study shows (3/26/2012)
- Stanford / Joseph Wu selected as one of the sites for 2011 Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence (3/23/2012)
- Scientists discover multitude of drug side effects, interactions using new computer algorithm (3/14/2012)
- Irradiation and stem cells used in new treatment to enable kidney recipients to forego immunosuppressant drugs (3/7/2012)
- Stanford miRNA prosurvival cocktail paper named as major advances in Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) for 2011 (3/23/2012)
- New heart procedure gives Redding man new swing (3/18/2012)
- Revolution in personalized medicine: First-ever integrative 'omics' profile lets scientist discover, track his diabetes onset (3/15/2012)
- JAMA: CCTA in nonacute settings increases expenditures (3/16/2012)
- Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes for Medical Advances (3/7/2012)
- 2013 Best Graduate Schools Preview: Stanford Ranked 5th on the List of Medical Schools for Research (3/8/2012)
- Stanford paper most downloaded in Circulation Research (3/13/2012)
- Celebrating Diversity: Getting More Women in Science Needs to Start Earlier (3/5/2012)
- Approval of Principal Investigator Status for Clinician Educators For Patient-Oriented Research (3/5/2012)
- Researchers celebrate trial’s lasting success (3/5/2012)
- Population studies at heart of initiative to improve health (2/27/2012)
- Hannah Valantine on diversity (2/29/2012)
- Understanding a woman's heart means knowing what to look for (2/27/2012)
- Scientists trigger muscle stem cells to divide (2/22/2012)
- 5 Questions: Blaschke on patients who don’t 'dose' properly (2/27/2012)
- Mini molecules could help fight battle of aortic bulge, study shows (2/22/2012)
- Packard Children's has smallest child yet to get pacemaker (2/13/2012)
- Support the primary goal of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) 2010-2015 extension study (2/8/2012)
- Towards Maximizing the Scientific Return on the Women’s Health Initiative Biological Resource (2/8/2012)
- What Are the Odds That Stats Would Be This Popular? (1/26/2012)
- FDA and Stanford to work together on med-tech education (1/23/2012)
- Skin cells turned into neural precursors (1/30/2012)
- Heartening developments: Stanford expert discusses innovations in cardiac care (2/2/2012)
- Stanford names top clinical research leader to chair Department of Medicine (1/31/2012)
- Either you’re a woman or you know one: Help spread the message of women’s heart health (1/30/2012)
- Drug Release from Electric-Field-Responsive Nanoparticles (1/25/2012)
- Women report feeling pain more intensely than men, says study of electronic records (1/23/2012)
- James Spudich zooms in on myosin in search of answers about heart failure (1/18/2012)
- New DNA reader to bring promise, perils of genetics to clinics (1/12/2012)
- Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease gets to the heart of dangerous mutations (1/9/2012)
- 5 Questions: Ioannidis on the need to test medical 'truths' (1/5/2012)
- Stanford Hospital & Clinics Wins Prestigious Leapfrog Top Hospital Designation for the Fourth Time (12/6/2011)
- Scar findings could lead to therapies (12/11/2011)
- Study finds iPS cells match embryonic stem cells in modeling human disease (12/12/2011)
- Technologies give high-resolution ‘snapshot’ of cancer tissues (11/21/2011)
- Scientists identify defect in brain cell channel that may cause autism-like syndrome (11/27/2011)
- Aging stem cells may explain higher prevalence of leukemia, infections among elderly, study shows (11/28/2011)
- Roundup of recent grants to medical school faculty (11/7/2011)
- Presidential award goes to Stanford science program for minority, low-income high school students (11/15/2011)
- New model establishes guidelines for earlier cancer detection (11/16/2011)
- New test for coronary artery disease linked to higher rates of cardiac procedures and greater costs, study shows (11/15/2011)
- Innovative treatment for most difficult cases of atrial fibrillation (11/15/2011)
- Med school unveils CAP Network (11/8/2011)
- Continuous dose of nitroglycerin increases severity of heart attacks, study shows (11/2/2011)
- Postdoc's condition inspires him to probe mysteries of the heart (10/24/2011)
- Robert Robbins, MD, named President-Elect of American Heart Association Western States Affiliate Board (10/5/2011)
- Family receives novel genome analysis of their health risks (9/15/2011)
- Researchers create first human heart cells that can be paced with light (9/20/2011)
- Cassidy: iPhone app can't stress calm enough (9/21/2011)
- Does that hurt? Objective way to measure pain being developed at Stanford (9/13/2011)
- Researchers invent sutureless method for joining blood vessels (8/28/2011)
- Fan Yang, PhD, honored by MIT's Technology Review (8/29/2011)
- New recommendations on interpreting athletes' ECG results prepared by Stanford team (8/8/2011)
- U.S. pediatric cardiologists not always accurate in interpreting ECG results for young athletes, Stanford/Packard study finds (7/14/2011)
- Study presents new evidence of how physical activity benefits heart health in seniors (6/13/2011)
- Population Matters (6/2/2011)
- City of Palo Alto gives green light to rebuild, expand Stanford hospitals (6/7/2011)
- Dangerous side effect of common drug combination discovered by data mining (5/25/2011)
- $20M endowment for bioengineering (5/23/2011)
- Stem cells: The growing pains of pluripotency (5/18/2011)
- Molecular-imaging expert Gambhir to head Stanford radiology department (5/18/2011)
- Guatemala’s Wise ‘Doctor Pablo’ (5/17/2011)
- Designing Solutions to Improve Health for All (5/17/2011)
- Three open-heart surgeries free baby from bleak prognosis (5/9/2011)
- Three from med school elected to National Academy of Sciences (5/9/2011)
- May 11 forum on women's health (4/25/2011)
- Children's hospital receives $25 million from Hewlett-Packard (5/2/2011)
- Scientists get $5.7M in stem cell funds (5/4/2011)
- Stanford creates first PhD program in stem cell science (4/28/2011)
- Pop-up reminders in electronic medical records help eliminate unnecessary blood transfusions, study finds (4/17/2011)
- To better detect heart transplant rejections, scientists test for traces of donor's genome (3/28/2011)
- Fat fate: Researchers uncover signal that helps control when stem cells become fat cells (3/28/2011)
- New guidelines issued for reporting of genetic risk research (3/28/2011)
- Growing pains: Doctors treat adults' childhood heart defects (3/28/2011)
- New gene regions identified that predispose people to heart attacks, scientists say (3/6/2011)
- New method allows human embryonic stem cells to avoid immune system rejection, study finds (3/3/2011)
- Salinas, Monterey scientists and medical professionals test remote-controlled drug delivery (2/24/2011)
- Understanding women's heart disease (2/17/2011)
- Skin cells help to develop possible heart defect treatment in first-of-its-kind study (2/9/2011)
- Stress, snacks of Super Bowl can be hard on heart (1/31/2011)
- $10.6M in new stem cell grants (1/28/2011)
- Little benefit from electronic health records from 2005 to 2007, study says (1/24/2011)
- Sean Mackey on the science of pain (1/18/2011)
- Chest pain? New system helps to determine whether to head to ER (12/13/2010)
- Supplementing angiograms with other probe saves money as well as lives, study shows (12/13/2010)
- Report contradicts FDA warning against use of anti-clotting drug with proton-pump inhibitors (11/22/2010)
- Joseph Wu and three other Stanford scientists win presidential award (11/11/2010)
- New drug may provide more cost-effective stroke prevention than warfarin, study shows (11/1/2010)
- Blau, Shatz reflect on their careers as pioneers in science (10/28/2010)
- Stent procedures no longer require overnight stay at Stanford Hospital (10/11/2010)
- Stanford-led study disproves link between genetic variant, risk of coronary artery disease (10/7/2010)
- Stanford lands research grants for creative scientists and breakthrough projects (9/30/2010)
- New treatment for severe aortic stenosis shown to save lives, researchers say (9/22/2010)
- Evolution may have pushed humans toward greater risk for type-1 diabetes, study shows (8/17/2010)
- Physicians failing to follow recommended heart-failure treatment guidelines, study finds (8/9/2010)
- Effort to stop stem cell fraud (7/1/2010)
- Study finds enzyme key in both fetal heart development, adult heart disease (6/30/2010)
- Symposium on effects of sex chromosomes (6/21/2010)
- Euan Ashley on genome sequencing (5/28/2010)
- Study first to analyze individual's genome for risk of dozens of diseases, potential responses to treatment (4/29/2010)
- Blood test enables heart-transplant recipients to undergo fewer biopsies, study shows (4/22/2010)
- Lasting impressions: Turakhia on challenges of treating heart condition in pregnancy (4/12/2010)
- Artery development mystery solved, may lead to better bypasses, study shows (3/24/2010)
- ECG testing of young athletes cost-effective in preventing deaths, study shows (3/1/2010)
- Drug therapy more cost-effective than angioplasty for diabetic patients with heart disease, researcher finds (11/17/2009)
- A Brief History of Heart Transplants (11/16/2009)
- Robotic tools used to treat arrhythmias at Stanford Hospital (11/16/2009)
- Video Spotlight: Euan Ashley, MD, PhD (11/13/2009)
- Stanford helps establish tissue bank, patient registry for lymphatic diseases (11/2/2009)
- Dark Heart: Why Does the Muscle Fail? (10/27/2009)
- Four scientists receive millions from new federal consortium to study progenitor cells (10/7/2009)
- Stanford nabs 13 top NIH awards for high-stakes research (9/23/2009)
- 'Liposuction leftovers' easily converted to iPS cells, study shows (9/7/2009)
- Researchers call for drug labels to disclose lack of comparison with existing medications (8/12/2009)
- Tony Huesman, longest survivor with transplanted heart, dies at 51 (8/10/2009)
- Margaret Billingham, pioneer in heart transplant pathology, dies at 78 (7/21/2009)
- Stanford professor receives presidential award for mentoring in science (7/17/2009)
- No heartbeat but plenty of heart (7/15/2009)
- Dr. Heilshorn receives NIH, NSF career and young investigator awards (9/15/2009)
- Cardiovascular Institute Member Retreat (7/20/2009)
- Phil Tsao, PhD, selected to serve as member of the NIH Myocardial Ischemia and Metabolism Study Section, Center for Scientific Review (7/10/2009)
- Stanford expert lists five steps to boost impact of comparative effectiveness research (6/16/2009)
- Testing athletes' hearts to be discussed at Stanford conference (6/9/2009)
- John Cooke, MD, PhD, awarded designation of Master of the Society for Vascular Medicine (6/3/2009)
- Three CVI members win top ISHR awards (5/29/2009)
- Getting to the heart of health care for the poor (5/26/2009)
- Buckwalter enjoys deciphering the mysteries of stroke (5/19/2009)
- Dr. Mark Hlatky explores a range of issues related to coronary CT angiography in XM Radio interview (5/15/2009)
- Stanford's Blood Center helps non-donors face fear of giving blood (5/14/2009)
- Robert Robbins appointed to endowed chair (5/13/2009)
- Stanford-India Biodesign, with Paul Yock as a director, gets ready to test innovations in medical technology (4/30/2009)
- Stanford researchers receive $5.8 million grant from state stem cell agency (4/29/2009)
- Heart docs outpush 49ers in contest (4/28/2009)
- Bypass surgery better than angioplasty for certain patients (4/1/2009)
- Cardiovascular Institute member retreat and poster session 11:30 am-5:00 pm (2/27/2009)
- Scottish celebration benefits cardiac research (2/3/2009)
- New tool could prevent needless stents and save money, Stanford cardiologist says (1/14/2009)
- Julia Ransohoff Selected as a Finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search (1/1/2009)
- Dec 10, 2008: Helen Blau, PhD, awarded $949,608 grant by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to help develop powerful new stem cell research tools and techniques
Nov 12-14, 2008: Mark Hlatky, MD, featured on National Public Radio's Science Friday, the The Colbert Report, and other national media, discussing his New England Journal of Medicine editorial and results of the JUPITER Crestor study with study director Paul Ridker, MD - Nov 8-11, 2008: American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions 2008: Stanford CVI members present 72 seminars, posters, endowed lectures, moderating and more [pdf]
- Nov 11, 2008: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD to present the Charles T. Dotter Memorial Lecture at the 2008 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, New Orleans. His presentation, "More Surprises from the Healthy Donut," explores the evolving role of computed tomography in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular diseases
- Nov 11, 2008: Newshour With Jim Lehrer (PBS), 11/10/08. Mark Hlatky, MD, discussed the new study on statins with Ray Suarez
- Nov 8-11, 2008: American Heart Association annual Scientific Sessions 2008: Stanford CVI members are presenting 72 seminars, posters, endowed lectures, moderating and more...
- Oct 27, 2008: NIH awards Michael McConnell, MD, MSEE, T-32 grant to train next generation of cardiovascular imaging researchers. Co-investigators are Sam Gamhir, MD, PhD, and John Pauly, PhD
- Oct 24, 2008: Observing the 40th Anniversary of the First Human Heart Transplantation in the United States; Symposium, patient reunion will help mark 40 years of pioneering work in heart transplantation at Stanford
- Oct 13, 2008: Dr. Robbins awards second-round funding for two Institute seed grant research teams. Principal investigators Daria Mochly-Rosen, PhD, and Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, presented progress reports at the 10/8/08 review meeting.....
- Sep 22, 2008: Cardiovascular Institute faculty Ricardo Dolmetsch, PhD, and Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, receive NIH most prestigious awards: NIH Director's Pioneer Award, New Innovator Award
- Sep 5, 2008: Young Investigator Award Winners Announced Member retreat and Poster Session
- Sep 5, 2008: Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Member retreat
- Sep 4-5, 2008: 2008 Stanford AAA Summit: Strategies for Multidisciplinary Research
20 internationally-recognized experts in four core areas of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) present an integrated, interactive program on clinical management, biology, imaging, and mechanics. - Aug 5 2008: American Heart Association awards $3.89 million to Stanford-Kaiser Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Center
- July 2008: NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Funds K-12 Stanford Vascular Medicine Training Program
- June 14, 2008: '"Do Research," Nobel Laureate Kornberg urges medical school graduates
- Feb 29, 2008: Cardiovascular Institute announces eight seed grant awards
- Feb 29, 2008: Cardiovascular Institute announces 2008 Young Investigator of the Year
- Feb 1, 2008: Cardiovascular Institute awards first fellowship to James Norman, PhD. Dr. Norman is a fellow in pediatric cardiology and bioengineering
- Nov 7, 2007: Unique Stanford cardiovascular residency program is accredited
- Oct 30, 2007: Stanford researchers start voluntary program to screen athletes for heart health
- Sep 4, 2007: Hear Euan Ashley, MRCP, DPhil, Director of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at Stanford on KQED Forum | Download MP3
- Feb 26, 2006: Dr. Robbins' Research Featured on "60 Minutes"