Held on January 24, 2024, the Bay Area Cardiovascular Science Symposium brought together scientists from Gladstone Institutes, Stanford University, and UC San Francisco, to share the latest discoveries in the cardiovascular research community.

Watch the presentations from the symposium.

Turning the Oxygen Dial

Isha Jain, PhD, Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institutes

Mechanisms of Oxygen Toxicity: Implications for Cardiopulmonary Disease

Alan Baik, MD, Affiliate, Gladstone Institutes

Cardiac Contraction and Relaxation Are Regulated by Distinct Subcellular cAMP Pools

Roshanak Irannejad, PhD, Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, UC San Francisco

Developing Strategies to Protect against Cardiovascular Toxicity of Oncology Drugs

Anna Hnatiuk, MD, PhD, Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine

CXCL10 and IFN-γ Mediate mRNA Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis

Masataka Nishiga, MD, PhD, Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine

Development of Mechanism-Based Therapeutics for Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Francesca Briganti, PhD, Instructor, Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University

Modulating Cell States in Heart Disease

Michael Alexanian, PhD, Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institutes

Unlocking Heart Regeneration: Targeting Endothelial Enhancers

Ivana Zlatanova, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Francisco

Selective Inhibition of Matrix Mechanosensing in Stromal Cells Attenuates Cardiovascular Fibrosis

Sangkyun Cho, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University

Detecting Accelerated Cardiac Aging with Deep Learning and Common Variant Genetics

James Pirrucello, MD, Assistant Professor, UC San Francisco

Mechanisms of Atherogenesis in Clonal Hematopoiesis

Trevor Fidler, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute, UC San Francisco

Investigating the Causal Relationship between Glycemic Trait and MRI-Derived Aortic Measures Using Mendelian Randomization

Catherine Tcheandjieu, DVM, PhD, Assistant Investigator, Gladstone Institutes

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