March 2019
Zoltan Pierre Arany, MD, PhD
Surprising new players in mitophagy
Professor in Medicine
Director of Cardiovascular Metabolism Program
Cardiovascular Institute and Institute Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism
University of Pennsylvania
April 2019
Timothy McKinsey, PhD
Epigenetic Therapies for Heart Failure
Associate Professor & Associate Division Head for Translational Research
Director, Consortium for Fibrosis Research & Translation
University of Colorado Denver
May 2019
Elena Aikawa, MD, PhD
Discovery of novel disease driver population of human calcific aortic valves via systems approach and single cell profiling
Director, Vascular Biology Program
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS
Aikawa Lab
September 2019
Deepak Srivastava, MD
Cardiac Development: Basis for Disease and Regeneration
President, Gladstone Institutes
The Younger Family Director
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Director, Roddenberry Stem Cell Center
Professor, University of California, San Francisco
October 2019
Nenad Bursac, PhD
Engineering Cells, Tissues, and Genes for Myocardial Repair
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Cell Biology
Faculty of Cardiology
Co-director, Regeneration Next Initiative
Duke University
November 2019
Richard N. Kitsis, M.D.
Unifying Cell Death Programs
Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology
The Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Chair in Cardiovascular Disease
Director, Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Luigi Adamo, MD, PhD
Myocardial B cells – more than meets the eye
Heart Failure Specialist
Instructor of Medicine
Washington University in St Louis
December 2019
Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Redefining Cardiovascular Biology One Cell At A Time
Endowed Faculty Scholar of Lucile Packard Foundation
for Children and Child Health Research Institute at Stanford
Associate Professor of Medicine and (by courtesy) Pediatrics
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
January 2020
Brian Black, PhD
Identification and characterization of heart regeneration enhancers in zebrafish
Professor and Director
Cardiovascular Research Institute
University of California, San Francisco
