2024 Russell Ross Memorial Lecture - Masanori Aikawa, MD, PhD, FAHA 

 

Masanori Aikawa, MD, PhD, FAHA, is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Yoshihiro Miwa Distinguished Chair at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he serves as founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences and a principal investigator at the Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology.

His focus areas include atherosclerotic vascular diseases, macrophage biology, lipids and drug discovery. Aikawa’s goal is to translate basic research discoveries into clinical practice using a systems approach involving multi-omics, network science, single cell analysis and machine learning.

Aikawa has held editorial positions with Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology; Circulation; Circulation Research; Journal of American College of Cardiology; Cardiovascular Research; and PLOS ONE. He is chief editor of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has published more than 230 articles and delivered more than 220 invited lectures.

His work has been recognized with honors including two awards from the American Heart Association (Special Recognition Award in Vascular Biology, 2013, and the Jeffrey M. Hoeg Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Award for Basic Science and Clinical Research, 2023), the 2024 Alexander Clowes Lectureship from the International Society for Applied Cardiovascular Biology, and the 2013 Tucker Collins Lectureship at Harvard Medical School’s Vascular Biology Seminar Series. Aikawa also served as president of the North American Vascular Biology Organization in 2020-2021.