Disease Focus: Heart Disease
Macaca mulatta as advanced model for predictive preclinical testing of engineered cardiac autografts and allografts
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the US. Heart muscle injured during a heart attack does not regenerate, and the resulting damage leads to heart failure, which inflicts almost 6 million people in the US alone. Recently, several studies have shown that direct injection of stem cell-derived heart cells may offer […]
9th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung and Blood Diseases
10th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases
11th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases
Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference
“Stem Cell Therapies for Heart Failure”
Our multi-institutional program is dedicated to the treatment of heart failure, which has become a leading cause of death in California and the U. S. The high death toll continues to climb despite many significant recent advances in the medical treatment of heart failure. The disease is due to a debilitating loss and/or dysfunction of […]
{REDACTED} Heart Disease Regenerative Medicine Team Planning Award
The present planning grant application lays the groundwork for a collaborative heart disease regenerative medicine team. We plan to develop sequential preclinical and clinical investigations directed at regenerative stem cell-based approaches to treating the following major cardiovascular diseases: heart attack and its sequelae; congestive heart failure; and heart block requiring a pacemaker. The basic foundation […]
Metabolic regulation of cardiac differentiation and maturation
Cells in the body take up nutrients from their environment and metabolize them in a complex set of biochemical reactions to generate energy and replicate. Control of these processes is particularly important for heart cells, which need large amounts of energy to drive blood flow throughout the body. Not surprisingly, the nutritional requirements of heart […]
Improving Existing Drugs for Long QT Syndrome type 3 (LQT3) by hiPSC Disease-in-Dish Model
This project uses patient hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes to develop a safe and effective drug to treat a serious heart health condition. This research and product development will provide a novel method for a human genetic heart disorder characterized by long delay (long Q-T interval) between heart beats caused by mutations in the Na+ channel α subunit. […]
Tissue Collection for Accelerating iPSC Research in Cardiovascular Diseases
Heart failure is a very common and chronic condition defined by an inability of the heart to pump blood effectively. Over half of cases of heart failure are caused by a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy, which involves dilation of the heart cavity and weakening of the muscle. Importantly, many cases of this disease do not […]