Congratulations to Dr. Nadjet Belbachir for starting her Assistant Professor position at the University of Montreal

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Wu for being named top 0.1% highly cited researchers in the world by Web of Science for eighth year in a row (2018-2025). 

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/H-1067-2013

Ohio State’s Heart and Vascular Center names Dr. Wu 2025 Schottenstein Prize laureate

Congratulations to Dr. Masataka Nishiga for starting his Assistant Professor position at The Ohio State University

Congratulations to Dr. Dilip Thomas for starting his Assistant Professor position at the University of Galway, Ireland

Dr. Wu shares his insight on cardiovascular aging in an interview on healthy aging with WuXi Press.

Congratulations to Dr. Chengyi Tu for starting his Assistant Professor position at the University of Texas Southwestern

Congrats to Xu Cao for receiving a 5-year K99/R00 Award!

Congrats to Dr. Meysam Chorsi for receiving a T32 postdoctoral fellowship award from the Computational Medicine in the Heart: Integrated Training Program (CHIP T32)

Congrats to Byron Mui for receiving a T32 postdoctoral fellowship award from the Multidisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Imaging at Stanford.

Congrats to Arianne Caudal for receiving a 5-year K99/R00 Award!

Dr. Joseph Wu interviewed by Aaron Strout on The Reaching Higher Podcast

Congratulation to Sang Cho for starting his Assistant Professor position in Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Keynote Interview of Dr. Joseph Wu at MPS World Summit 2025 Brussels

Congrats to Gabriela Canel Rivero for acceptance as a medical student at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.

Congrats to Oscar Abilez & Huaxiao Yang for publishing their paper in Science titled “Gastruloids enable modeling of the earliest stages of human cardiac and hepatic vascularization”.

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Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Wu for receiving the 2025 Louis & Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases. The Award is designed to honor outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases by a scientific investigator or group of investigators whose contribution to knowledge in this field is deemed worthy of special recognition.

Dr. Wu interviewed on the new FDA & NIH focus on non-animal models called “New Alternative Methods” (NAMs).

Congrats to Stefanie Banahene for receiving an AHA Diversity Supplement Award

Congrats to Sang Cho & Siyeon Rhee for publishing their paper in Nature titled “Selective inhibition of stromal mechanosensing suppresses cardiac fibrosis”.

Congrats to Pete Zushin for receiving a NIH F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant.

Congratulation to Mengcheng Shen for starting his Assistant Professor position in Dept of Medicine at WashU at St. Louis

Dr. Wu discusses about Investment in Science and the NIH with Drs. Robert Harrington, Adrian Hernandez, and Svati Shah on Medscape Cardiology.

Congrats to Erin Hu for acceptance as medical student at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Congrats to Brian Yu for matching into Stanford Medicine Translational Investigator Pathway Program.

Congrats to Lichao Liu, Siyeon Rhee, Amit Manhas, Bernardo Bonilauri, and Wenshu Zeng for each receiving the American Heart Association Career Development Award

Dr. Wu chaired the AHA presidential advisory committee on future of NIH funding.

Congrats to Dr. Souhrid Mukerjee and Kyle Swanson for publishing a Circulation letter on AI model to predict drug-induced cardiotoxicity.

Congrats to Drs. Ravichandra Venkateshappa, Renjie Shang, Wenqiang Liu, and Xiaochun Yang for receiving a 2-year American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship