People

Vasanth Vedantham, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

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Education: Harvard Medical School/MIT (MD/PhD)

Interests: Molecular, Cellular, Developmental, and Evolutionary Determinants of Heart Rhythm; Cardiovascular Genetics

Hongmei Ruan, MD, PhD

Specialist

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Education: North China Coal Medical College (MD); Zhongshan University (PhD, Pharmacology). 

Interests: cellular, ex-vivo, and in-vivo physiology, regeneration/reprogramming

James Engel, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Education: UCLA (PhD, Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology)

Interests: Stem cell biology, in vitro differentiation of human cardiac lineages using iPSCs

Amanda Soe

Assistant Specialist

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Education: UC Berkeley (BA, Molecular and Cell Biology)

Interests: Cardiac physiology, human genetics, heart disease

Nav Lally

Graduate Student

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Education: UCSD 

Interests: Cell and Tissue Biology of the heart, human genetics

Swetha Palaniappan

Junior Specialist

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Education: UC, Berkeley

Interests: Cardiac physiology, anatomy, histology, and gene expression. 

Khushi Kethana

Undergraduate

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Education: UC, Berkeley

Interests: Cardiac development and embryology, immunohistochemistry, cardiac cellular physiology

Suzanna Gasparian

Junior Specialist

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Education: UC Berkeley

Interests: Cardiac cell biology, tissue engineering, stem cells, neuroscience