Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Seed Grants
2024 Seed Grant Award Recipients
Elucidating Myocardial Sparring Effects by FLASH Radiotherapy
Won Suk Jahng, PhD (PI)
Instructor, Radiation Oncology
Billy W Loo, Jr, MD PhD FASTRO FACR (Co-PI)
Professor of Radiation Oncology (Radiation Therapy)
Multi-Omic Investigations for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
Jonathan Reiss, MD (PI)
Instructor, Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
Nima Aghaeepour, PhD (Co-PI)
Associate Professor
Lawrence Prince, MD, PhD (Co-PI)
Philip Sunshine, MD, Professor of Neonatology
Combating Atherosclerosis with Novel Peptide Hormone BRP3
Paul Cheng, MD, PhD (PI)
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Katrin Svensson, PhD (Co-PI)
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Gut microbiome associations with cardiovascular disease in African women
Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD (PI)
Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and of Genetics
Scott Hazelhurst, BScHons MSc, PhD (Collaborator)
University of the Witwatersrand
Dylan Maghini (Co-I and Postdoc)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hematology
Toward the development of novel therapeutic strategies to replicate the benefits of exercise
Patricia Nguyen, MD (PI)
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Ngan Huang, PhD (Co-I)
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (CT Surgery Research)
Jonathan Myers, PhD (Co-I)
Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Cardiovascular Medicine
Novel Sacrificial Biomaterial Development for Scalable Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering
John W. MacArthur, MD (PI)
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Adult Cardiac Surgery)
Joseph M. DeSimone, PhD (Co-PI)
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine, Professor of Chemical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Chemistry, of Materials Science and Engineering, and of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business
Alison L. Marsden, PhD (Co-I)
Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering
Elbert E. Heng, MD (Co-I)
Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery - Thoracic Surgery
An Artificial Intelligence Approach Utilizing Radiomic-Derived Calcium Features on Calcium Scoring CT (CAC-CT) in Cardiovascular Risk Stratification
Koen Nieman, MD, PhD (PI)
Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Radiology (CV Imaging)
Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH (Co-I)
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Shyon Parsa, MD (Co-I)
Clinical Scholar, Medicine Resident
David Maron, MD (Co-I)
C. F. Rehnborg Professor and Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)
