December 15, 2021
Congratulations to lab member Han Zhu, an Instructor in Cardiovascular Medicine, for being award an K08 Mentored Clinician-Scientist Development Award from the NIH/NHLBI to support her career development and her basic and translational research work addressing the mechanism of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced myocarditis.
October 1, 2021
Congratulations to lab members Han Zhu, an Instructor in Medicine, for publishing an article describing the role of cardiac troponin I monitoring for the diagnosis of myocarditis during immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment for cancer in the Journal of American College of Cardiology-CardioOncology.
September 1, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Wu for receiving a 4-yr collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation on RECODE- Directing and Controlling Cardiac Differentiation Through Cellular and Microenvironmental Manipulation and Application of Machine-Learning. This project will develop a computational prediction algorithm for outcomes of hiPSCs differentiation in vitro by iteratively testing the consequences of various chemical and physiological cues applied during differentiation in 2D and 3D environment.
July 21, 2021
Congratulations to lab member Han Zhu, an Instructor in Medicine, for publishing a full-length review article in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology on the clinical phenotype and basic mechanisms of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced myocarditis.
July 1, 2021
Congratulations to lab member Tahmina Samad, a post-doctoral fellow in the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, for publishing a full-length review article on the use of the single cell RNA sequencing tool to study cardiac development and congenital heart disease in the journal Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology.
March 19, 2021
Congratulations to former lab member Jan Buikema and post-doctoral fellow Soah Lee for publishing a detailed protocol of Wnt activation and cell contact inhibition-mediated hiPSC-CM expansion in the new Cell Press journal STAR Protocols.
March 1, 2021
Congratulations to Sharon Paige, an Instructor of Pediatric Cardiology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) at Stanford, on her new position as the Associate Medical Director at Cytokinetics, Inc. We wish her great success in this new adventure. She will continue to see congenital heart disease patients in the cardiogenomics clinic at LPCH as a clinical adjunct faculty.
February 20, 2021
Congratulations to Julia Ryan for being accepted to George Washington School of Medicine where she will begin her medical career starting August, 2021.
February 4, 2021
Congratulations to former lab member Orlando Chirikian, Vahid Serpooshan, Elda Dzilic, Jan Buikema, Guang Li, and Aimee Beck and current lab members Will Goodyer, Soah Lee, Francisco Galdos, and Sharon Paige for their Scientific Reports paper describing the labeling of atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes from in vitro differentiated hiPSCs using CRISPR/Cas9-based targeting of fluorescent reporter genes.
January 15, 2021
Congratulations to Drs. Sean Wu, Sharon Paige, Tahmina Samad for receiving the Additional Venture Research Fund for their study to identify metabolic biomarkers of heart failure in single ventricle patients. This 3 year award will allow them to recruit patients with single ventricle congenital heart disease from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and profile their metabolites in blood and urine for heart failure-specific metabolite.
January 12, 2021
Congratulations to Francisco Galdos, Sharon Paige, and former lab member Adrija Darsha on their protocol article in Methods in Molecular Biology describing the generation of fluorescent reporter lines to purify pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.
January 6, 2021
Congratulations to lab members Han Zhu and Daniel Lee who along with colleagues in Stanford cardiology and internal medicine published a review article on the basic mechanism and clinical characteristics of immune checkpoint inhibitor cardiotoxicity in the journal Annual Reviews in Pharmacology and Toxicology.