Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Early Career Committee Partners
Chair
Sean Wu
Associate Professor of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Pediatrics
Dept. of Medicine, Div. of Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
Twitter: @SeanM_Wu
Chair
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Nicole Purcell, PhD Assistant Professor
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Vice Chair
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Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Pediatrics
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Members
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Jean Bopassa, PhD, MS Assistant Professor
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Ke Cheng, PhD, FAHA Professor of Regenerative Medicine
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Dominic Del Re, PhD Assistant Professor
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Chen Gao, PhD Assistant Researcher
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Nirmala Hariharan, PhD Assistant Professor Adjunct
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Evangelia “Litsa” Kranias, PhD, FAHA Hanna Professor and Director Cardiovascular Biology
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Rebecca Levit, MD Assistant Professor
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Glenn C. Rowe, PhD Assistant Professor in Medicine
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Susmita Sahoo, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
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Sarah Schumacher, PhD Assistant Professor
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Michael Tranter, PhD Assistant Professor
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Jop van Berlo, MD, PhD Assistant Professor
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Immediate Past Chair |
Staff |
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Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA, FAHA Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
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Program Manager
Phone: (214) 706-1867 |
Past BCVS Early Career Committees
2012-2013 BCVS Early Career Committee
Asa Gustafsson, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor
UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Heather S. Duffy, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Donald R. Menick, PhD, FAHA
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
Director, Gazes Cardiac Research Institute
Director, Molecular & Cellular Biology & Pathobiology Program
Zhihua Jiang, MD, PhD
Assistant
Professor Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
University of Florida
Aarif Y. Khakoo, MD, MBA
Executive Director Research
Metabolic Disorders
Amgen
Maria Irene Kontaridis, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Deeptankar DeMazumder, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Clinical Fellow - Division of Cardiology
Research Fellow - Lab of Dr. Gordon F. Tomaselli
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
(Fan) Guo-Chang Fan, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Cell Biophysics
University of Cincinnati
Burns C. Blaxall, PhD, FAHA
Professor and Director of Translational Science
The Heart Institute, Molecular Cardiovascular Biology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Madhu V. Singh, PhD, MSc
Research Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Iowa
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD
Health Sciences Division
Loyola University Chicago
Sudhiranjan Gupta, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor
Cardiovascular Institute-Division of Molecular Cardiology
2017-2018 BCVS Early Career Committee
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA, FAHA, FAPS
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director of Heart Branch of the Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Nicole Purcell, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology
University of California, San Diego
Litsa Kranias, PhD, FAHA
Hanna Professor and Director Cardiovascular Biology
Distinguished University Professor
Co-Director, Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
Department of Pharmacology & Cell Biophysics
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Il-Man Kim, PhD
Associate Professor
Vascular Biology Center & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical College of Georgia
College of Graduate School
Augusta University
Glenn C. Rowe, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Disease
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Saumya Das, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School Cardiovascular Institute
Pilar Alcaide, PhD
Associate Professor
Department Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Konstantinos (Costas) Drosatos, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor in Pharmacology
Metabolic Biology Laboratory
Center for Translational Medicine
Center for Metabolic Disease Research
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Michael S. Kapiloff, MD, PhD, FAHA
Professor of Cardiology, Depts. of Pediatrics and Medicine
Director, Cardiac Signal Transduction/Cellular Biology Lab
Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
John W. Elrod, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology Assistant Professor
Center for Translational Medicine
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD, FACC
Regenerative Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford University
Prasanna Krishnamurthy, MVSc, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
School of Medicine and School of Engineering
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Krishnamurthy Faculty page
Sarah Franklin, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Jop van Berlo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Lillehei Endowed Scholar
Lillehei Heart Institute
Division of Cardiology
University of Minnesota
Maria Irene Kontaridis, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2015-2016 BCVS Early Career Committee
Maria Irene Kontaridis, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA, FAHA, FAPS
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director of Heart Branch of the Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Donald R. Menick, PhD, FAHA
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
Director, Gazes Cardiac Research Institute
Director, Molecular & Cellular Biology & Pathobiology Program
Il-Man Kim, PhD
Associate Professor
Vascular Biology Center & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical College of Georgia College of Graduate School
Augusta University
Navin K. Kapur, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center
Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
Saumya Das, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Cardiovascular Institute
Pilar Alcaide, PhD
Associate Professor
Department Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Konstantinos (Costas) Drosatos, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor in Pharmacology
Metabolic Biology Laboratory
Center for Translational Medicine
Center for Metabolic Disease Research
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Michael S. Kapiloff, MD, PhD, FAHA
Professor of Cardiology, Depts. of Pediatrics and Medicine
Director, Cardiac Signal Transduction/Cellular Biology Lab
Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
John W. Elrod, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology Assistant Professor
Center for Translational Medicine
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD, FACC
Regenerative Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford University
Prasanna Krishnamurthy, MVSc, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
School of Medicine and School of Engineering
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Asa Gustafsson, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor
UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
2014-2015 bcvs early career committee
Maria Irene Kontaridis, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, MBA, FAHA, FAPS
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Director of Heart Branch of the Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Donald R. Menick, PhD, FAHA
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
Director, Gazes Cardiac Research Institute
Director, Molecular & Cellular Biology & Pathobiology Program
Il-Man Kim, PhD
Associate Professor
Vascular Biology Center & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical College of Georgia College of Graduate School
Augusta University
Navin K. Kapur, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center
Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
Saumya Das, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Cardiovascular Institute
Pilar Alcaide, PhD
Associate Professor
Department Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology
Tufts University School of Medicine
Konstantinos (Costas) Drosatos, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor in Pharmacology
Metabolic Biology Laboratory
Center for Translational Medicine
Center for Metabolic Disease Research
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
John W. Elrod, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pharmacology Assistant Professor
Center for Translational Medicine
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Reza Ardehali, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research
University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher Baines, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor
Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center
Deeptankar DeMazumder, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Clinical Fellow - Division of Cardiology
Research Fellow - Lab of Dr. Gordon F. Tomaselli
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Burns C. Blaxall, PhD FAHA
Professor and Director of Translational Science
The Heart Institute, Molecular Cardiovascular Biology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Asa Gustafsson, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor
UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
2013-2014 BCVS Early Career Committee
Asa Gustafsson, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Heather S. Duffy, PhD
Director of Research
Center for Arrhythmia Research and Management
University of Utah
Donald R. Menick, PhD, FAHA
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
Director, Gazes Cardiac Research Institute
Director, Molecular & Cellular Biology & Pathobiology Program
Aarif Y. Khakoo, MD, MBA
Executive Director Research
Metabolic Disorders
Amgen
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD
Health Sciences Division
Loyola University Chicago
Nicole Purcell, PhD
Asst Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology
University of California, San Diego
Department of Pharmacology
Christopher Baines, PhD
Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center
Zhihua Jiang, MD, PhD
Assistant
Professor Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
University of Florida
Maria Irene Kontaridis, PhD, FAHA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Department of Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Madhu V. Singh, PhD, MSc
Research Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Iowa
Reza Ardehali, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research
University of California, Los Angeles
Deeptankar DeMazumder, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Clinical Fellow - Division of Cardiology
Research Fellow - Lab of Dr. Gordon F. Tomaselli
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Burns C. Blaxall, PhD, FAHA
Professor and Director of Translational Science
The Heart Institute, Molecular Cardiovascular Biology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
