December 15, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Wu and collaborator Dr. Patricia Nguyen on publishing a review commentary on sex difference in immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated myocarditis in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
December 1, 2022
Congratulations to lab members Dr. Han Zhu, Instructor in Medicine, Vivian Huang, research assistant, and Francisco Galdos, MD-PhD student, on their full-length review article on the use of single cell profiling and deep immune-phenotyping to understand the pathogenic mechanism of immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced myocarditis.
November 10, 2022
Congratulations to MD-PhD student Paul Heinrich for receiving a two-year Pre-doctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association for his research project on understanding the cell-cell contact mechanism regulating cardiomyocyte proliferation.
November 1, 2022
Congratulations to MD-PhD student Francisco Galdos on being named a recipient of the Harold Weintraub Graduate student Research Award for his PhD thesis work describing human iPSC-based modeling of cardiac development using single cell RNA sequencing, machine learning, and CRISPR-Cas9 targeting of fluorescent reporters. He has been invited to present his research at the annual Weintraub Symposium at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in 2023.
October 20, 2022
Congratulations to MD-PhD student Francisco Galdos and Stanford undergraduate student Sidra Xu for their new paper describing the use of machine learning tools to perform automated annotation of cell identity in the developing embryo toward a fully-formed 4-chamber heart published in Nature Communications.
September 1, 2022
Congratulations to lab member Will Goodyer, an Instructor of Pediatric Cardiology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) at Stanford, on his new paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation describing the use of near infrared dye-conjugated antibody targeting the surface receptor contactin-2 to live image the entire cardiac conduction system in mice.
August 1, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Wu for his new appointment as the interim Senior Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University.
July 19, 2022
Congratulations to lab member Han Zhu, an Instructor in Cardiovascular Medicine, for publishing the first single cell profiling study on immune cell repertoire of patients with myocarditis due to immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment for cancer and the confirmatory studies in PD1 knock out mice in the journal Circulation.
July 1, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Wu for starting his appointment as Vice Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Foundation and as the Programming Chair of the Sarnoff Foundation 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting in April, 2023 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
March 18, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Wu and lab members Will Goodyer, Instructor in Pediatric Cardiology, Nazan Puluca, post-doctoral fellow, and Francisco Galdos, MD-PhD student, for their contributions to the Tabula Sapien Consortium paper published in Science.
February 15, 2022
Congratulations to lab members Francisco Galdos, MD-PhD student, Sharon Paige, Instructor in Pediatrics, and former lab member Adrija Darsha, research assistant, on their protocol article in Methods in Molecular Biology describing the generation of fluorescent reporter lines to purify pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.
February 1, 2022
Congratulations to lab member Tahmina Samad, post-doctoral fellow in the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, for her Clinician-Scientist Development Award from the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub that will partial stipend and training support for two years.