Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Seed Grants

2021 Seed Grant Award Recipients

Research Funded by the Steven M. Gootter Foundation

"Understanding Ventricular Tachycardia: A Wholistic Approach Using Porcine and Isolated Perfused Human Heart Models"


PI: Anson Lee, MD

Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Collaborator: Daniel Ennis, PhD

Biomedical Engineering

Collaborator: Oscar Abilez, MD, PhD

Instructor of Medicine

Collaborator: Udi Nussinovitch, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Electrophysiology

Collaborator: Oluwatomisin Obafemi, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Co-I: Paul Wang, MD

Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering

Collaborator: Sanjiv Narayan, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Collaborator: Phillip Yang, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Collaborator: Meghedi Babakhanian, PhD

Bioengineering Scientist

"Determining Early Maternal Immune Predictors of Preeclampsia"


PI: Virginia Winn, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Collaborator: Brice Gaudillière, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology

Co-I: Ruth Lathi, MD

Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology

Collaborator: Nima Aghaeepour, PhD

Assistant Professor, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology

"Maternal Vaping and Transgenerational Risk of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm"


PI: Joshua Spin, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Co-I: Philip Tsao, PhD

Professor of Medicine

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