As the first part of the Newton Webinar Series, Benoit Bruneau, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease had an intimate conversation with Robert Wicks, vice president of philanthropy at Gladstone.
Benoit shared how his lab is working to better understand the role genes play in building a heart and the code guiding the process. He also explored congenital heart defects, how they develop, what can be done to stop them before they start, and the implications for other cardiovascular diseases.
The Newton Webinar Series is inspired by the story of Isaac Newton’s extraordinary intellectual output while in quarantine during the Great London Plague of 1665, and offers an alternative to all the news related to COVID-19. Each week, we will feature a conversation with Gladstone’s scientists and explore their moonshot ideas, how they approach their work, and what they think medicine may look like 10, 20, and 50 years from now.
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Watch presentations from the Bruneau Lab 20th Anniversary Symposium held on March 19, 2021, via Zoom
Cardiovascular Disease Bruneau LabThe findings could point toward new ways to prevent or treat one of the most common birth defects
News Release Research (Publication) Congenital Heart Disease Cardiovascular Disease Bruneau Lab Human Genetics Stem Cells/iPSCsBenoit Bruneau and Katie Pollard study DNA folding to identify the genetic causes of congenital heart disease
Grants News Release Congenital Heart Disease Cardiovascular Disease Data Science and Biotechnology Bruneau Lab Pollard Lab