2025 Distinguished Scientist Lecturer - Deepak Srivastava, MD, FAHA


Deepak Srivastava, MD, FAHA
Deepak Srivastava, MD, FAHA

Deepak Srivastava, MD, FAHA

President, Gladstone Institutes
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes
Robert W. and Linda Mahley Distinguished Professor, Gladstone Institutes
Director, Roddenberry Stem Cell Center, Gladstone Institutes
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Biophysics, UC San Francisco
San Francisco, California

 

Deepak Srivastava is president of Gladstone Institutes. He is also the Younger Family Professor and a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, and director of the Roddenberry Stem Cell Center. At UC San Francisco, Srivastava is a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Biophysics, and is the Wilma and Adeline Pirag Distinguished Professor in pediatric developmental cardiology.

Before joining Gladstone in 2005, Srivastava was a professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Medicine. Srivastava served as president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research for 2019–2020 and is on the editorial board of the journal Cell Stem Cell. In addition, Srivastava has co-founded two biotechnology companies, iPierian Inc. and Tenaya Therapeutics, and chaired their scientific advisory boards.

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