December 2016
Congrats to Dr. Arun Sharma (former PhD grad student) who was named the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science
Listen to Dr. Wu's lecture to the FDA on You Tube
Congratulation to Xulei Qin for receiving a 3-year AHA Scientist Development Grant
September 2016
Congratulation to Kazuki Kodo for publishing his iPSC modeling of LVNC in Nature Cell Biol. Kazuki is now an Assistant Professor at Keio University
August 2016
Congratulations to Elena Matsa for publishing a paper on iPSC-heart cells for precision medicine in Cell Stem Cell
Congratulations to Patricia Nguyen for publishing a review on stem cell therapy for heart failure in JAMA Cardiology
Congratulations to Won Hee Lee for receiving the AHA Scientist Development Grant
Congratulations to Sang Ging Ong for receiving NIH K99/R00 Award
June 2016
Dr. Wu interviewed in the Translational Scientist magazine on using iPS cells to predict cardiotoxicity
Congratulations to Ilanit Itzhaki for receiving the AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
This man might make you a new heart: Dr. Joseph Wu interviewed at Ozy Media, an international online magazine that focuses on news, arts, and culture
Congratulations to Elena Matsa for receiving New Investigator Travel Award at the 2016 AHA BCVS Scientific Sessions
Congratulations to Chun Liu for receiving the AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
May 2016
Congratulations to Karim Sallam for receiving the American Heart Association Fellow to Faculty Award
April 2016
Congratulations to Angela Zhang (undergrad at Harvard) who will be attending MD/PhD program at Stanford School of Medicine
Congratulations to Haodi Wu for receiving a NHLBI PCBC Jump Start Award. His project is titled "Dissecting the Genome-wide Epigenetic Signature of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in iPSC-CM Model"
Using iPSCs to Identify Chemotherapy-Induced Heart Failure (Nature Medicine”)
This paper was also highlighted in a Nature Review Cardiology editorial
March 2016
Congratulations to Michael Nguyen who will be attending University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Congratulations to Vittavat (Tor) Termglinchan for matching into Stanford Medicine Residency program
February 2016
Article by John Ahrens on “State of the Heart Tissue Models” published in the Translational Scientist magazine
Congratulations to Kitch Wilson for receiving K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Award
January 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Wu for being appointed to the Simon H. Stertzer endowed professorship
Congratulations to undergraduate students Eric Marceau and Ates Akgun for receiving the 2016 Stanford Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program grants