December 18, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Wu who has been awarded the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association. His application entitled “Transcriptional Mechanism of Cardiac Lineage Development at Single Cell Resolution” received a 2.51 percentile score for funding.
December 15, 2016
Congratulations to high school student intern Thomas Thach who has been accepted to Stanford University’s class of 2021!! We hope he choses to stay here for college and complete an honor thesis project.
December 15, 2016
Congratulations to Mr. Francisco Galdos, and Dr. Sharon Paige whose paper on “Cardiac Regeneration: Lessons from Development” has been accepted for publication at Circulation Research.
December 8, 2016
Congratulations to Mr. Francisco Galdos and Dr. Sharon Paige for being the recipients of the Stanford Society of Physician Scholars research grant. Their project “In Vitro Modeling of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) Using Cardiac Chamber-Specific Reporters in Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells” will address the underlying molecular mechanism of HLHS using CRISPR-targeted reporter to address cell autonomous vs non-autonomous defects in this disease.
November 6, 2016
Congratulations to Drs. Vahid Serpooshan, Guang Li, and Elda Dzilic whose editorial article on “Mammalian Heart Regeneration: The Race to the Finish Line” has been accepted for publication at Circulation Research.
October 17, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Guang Li and Ms. Adele Xu whose full-length article entitled “Transcriptomic Profiling Maps Anatomically Patterned Subpopulations among Single Embryonic Cardiac Cells” has been accepted for publication as a Resource paper at Developmental Cell.
October 3, 2016
Congratulations to Ms. Sneha Venkatraman who has successfully completed all requirements for a Masters in Biotechnology degree from California State University, Channel Islands.
September 26, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Vahid Serpooshan whose joint grant application with members of Dr. Joseph Wu Lab entitled “In Vivo Assessment of 3D Bioprinted Vascular Cardiac Tissue in Infarcted Heart Using Functional Multimodality Imaging” to the PCBC NCE Research Project Award has been approved for funding.
June 1, 2016
Congratulations to Mr. Arun Sharma who has completed his PhD thesis at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine/Cardiovascular Institute and will be starting a post-doctoral fellowship at the laboratories of Drs. Christine and Jonathan Seidman at the Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
June 5, 2016
Congratulations to Mr. James Hu who has received a Undergraduate Research Experience (REU) Program funding from the Department of Bioengineering for his summer research on “3D Printing of Bioengineered Platforms for High-throughput Cardiotoxicity Screen”.
May 15, 2016
Congratulations to Mr. Daniel Hu who has received a Departmental Majors Grant for his summer research project on 3D bioprinting of cardiac tissue.
May 15, 2016
Congratulations to Wu Lab research assistant Ms. Alice Shieh who has been accepted to attend Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
April 15, 2016
Congratulations to undergraduate senior Mr. Nick Flores who has been accepted to attend UCSF School of Medicine.
March 1, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Vahid Serpooshan who has been promoted to an Instructor of Medicine at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine.
February 1, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Wu who has been promoted (with tenure) to Associate Professor of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics at Stanford University and School of Medicine. Dr. Wu wishes to thank all of his lab members, current and former, for their hard work to make this happen as well as his mentors and colleagues at Stanford for all of their support and guidance throughout the past four years.
January 4, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Wu for his election to the membership of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). The ASCI membership is awarded to physician scientists younger than 50 years of age who has made significant contribution to his/her respective field of research.