2017 CVI Seed Grants Recipients
Research Funded by the CHRI
James Priest, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Collaborator: Mads Melbye, MD, DMSc
A Sensitized Genetic Association Study for Congenital Heart Disease
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine
Collaborators: Michael Snyder, PhD, (Genetics) & Francois Haddad, MD (Medicine/Cardiology)
Addressing the obesity and Diabetes epidemic through understanding personalized energy expenditure
Doff McElhinney, MD
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Pediatric Cardiac Surgery) and of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Psychosocial, Cognitive, and Quality of Life Outcomes in Children and Adults with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia and Major Aortopulmonary Collateral Arteries
Oscar Abilez, MD, PhD
Instructor, Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Collaborators: Huaxiao Yang, PhD, Hung-Ta Wo, MD, Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD (Medicine/Cardiology)
Early Detection of Arrhythmogenesis due to Cardiac Fibrosis via Correlation of In Vitro Modeling and Clinical Assessment
Tara Chang, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)
Collaborators: Venita Chandra, MD (Surgery), Nicholas Leeper, MD (Surgery/Medicine), Maria Montez-Rath, PhD (Medicine)
Harnessing Big Data to Reduce Peripheral Artery Disease-Related Leg Amputation in Chronic Kidney Disease
Sarah Heilshorn, PhD
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering
Collaborator: Joseph Woo, MD (CT Surgery)
Stem Cell-derived Exosomes as Potential Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Kiran Khush, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Collaborator: Ash Alizadeh, MD, PhD (Medicine/Oncology)
A Genomic Approach for Early Noninvasive Detection of Post-Transplant Malignancies
Laura Lazzeroni, PhD
Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and (by courtesy) of Biomedical Data Science
Collaborator: Thomas Quertermous, MD (Medicine/Cardiology)
Integrating MultiOmic Data in Coronary Heart Disease: A Pilot Study for New Statistical Methods
Koen Nieman, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Radiology (CV Imaging)
Collaborators: Jennifer Tremmel, MD (Medicine/Cardiology), Dominik Fleischmann, MD (Radiology)
Computed Tomography Guided Revascularization of Chronic Coronary Occlusions
Jayakumar Rajadas, PhD
Director, BioADD, and Assistant Director of CV Pharmacology, Biomaterials & Advanced Drug Delivery
Collaborator: Ronglih Liao, PhD (Medicine/Cardiology)
Study of Aggregation Mechanism of Ig Light Chains from Light Chain Amyloidosis Patients
Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH (Medicine/Cardiology)
Clinical Instructor, Medicine- Cardiovascular Medicine
Collaborator: Rajesh Dash, MD, PhD (Medicine/Cardiology)
Bridging the Gap: The Impact of a New Virtual Preventive Cardiology Clinic on Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Two High Risk Ethnic Populations
Sean Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and (by courtesy) of Pediatrics
Collaborator: Marlene Rabinovitch, MD (Pediatrics/Cardiology)
A Perfusion Bioreactor for Understanding Endocardial-Myocardial Interactions in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome