Research Projects

Stanford Investigators

Investigator

Project

Department

Brian Kobilka

Cardiovascular physiology in a- and ß-adrenergic receptor knockout mice

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Depts. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Medicine

John Cooke

Angiogenesis, role of nitric oxide in cardiovascular function, role of ADMA in cardiovascular function

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine

Gregory Barsh

Regulation of energy balance by melanocortin antagnoists

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Depts. of Genetics and Pediatrics

Tom Schwarz

Potassium channel knockout mice

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Steven Smith

ß3-calcium channel subunit knockout mouse

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Richard Tsien

ß3-calcium channel subunit knockout mouse

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Dale Umetsu

Phosphodiesterase knockout mouse; Pulmonary physiology in the ß2-adrenergic receptor knockout mouse

Department of Pediatrics

Marco Conti

Phosphodiesterase knockout mouse

Department of Gynecology/Obstetrics

Daria Mochly-Rosen

Ischemic preconditioning using activators and inhibitors of PKC

Department of Molecular Pharmacology

Marlene Rabinovitch

Mechanisms of pulmonary vascular disease; cardiopulmonary development

Wall Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics

Robert Robbins

Isolation of stem cells from adult mouse hearts

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Frank Hanley

Development of rodent models of cardiopulmonary bypass

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Thomas Quertermous

Role of the endogenous ligand apelin in cardiovascular function

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine

Euan Ashley

Role of the endogenous ligand apelin in cardiovascular function

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine

Investigators From Other Institutions

Evangelia Kranias

Phospholamban knockout mouse

University of Cincinnati

Shaun Coughlin

PAR-2 thrombin receptor knockout mouse

CVRI, University of California, San Francisco

Bruce Conklin

Constitutively active Gi and Gq/ tet transactivator transgenic mouse

Gladstone Institute, University of California, San Francisco

Victor Dzau

AT2 receptor knockout mouse

Harvard University

Robert Lefkowitz

ß2-adrenergic receptor transgenic (TG4) mouse

Duke University

Ken Chien

Effect of ß-AR knockouts on cardiac function in the MLP knockout mouse

Harvard University

E. Murphy

Role of adrenergic receptors in ischemic preconditioning

National Institutes of Health