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Vascular & Cardiac Biology  
Opportunities abound for research training in Vascular and Cardiac Biology. UCSF's Cardiovascular Research Institute (http://cvri.ucsf.edu/) both provides a home for such research and fosters interactions among investigators throughout UCSF who are interested in cardiovascular biology and disease. The spectrum of investigation ranges from basic structural and chemical biology through cell biology, signaling and invertebrate and vertebrate models of cardiovascular development and disease to human genetics and patient-based disease research. A list of faculty and a description of their research programs can be found at http://cvri.ucsf.edu/. Once there, click on "Investigators" at left.


Participating Faculty
Gabriele Bergers, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling / Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Interactions between tumor cells and blood vessels to regulate neovascularization, tumor growth and invasion

Harold Bernstein, MD, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Cell Cycle Regulation in Cardiovascular Biology

Brian Black, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Molecular biology of skeletal and cardiac muscle differentiation, developmental and function

Benoit Bruneau, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Transcriptional regulation of heart development

Bruce Conklin, MD
Primary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Rewiring Receptor and G-protein Signals In Vivo

Shaun Coughlin, MD, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Signaling mechanisms in vascular biology and disease

Robert V. Farese, Jr., MD
Primary Research Interest: Tissue/Organ Biology & Endocrinology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Cell Biology of Energy Metabolism

Susan Fisher, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Placental Biology/Bacterial Adhesion

David Gardner, MD
Primary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Growth control in the cardiovascular system: Role of the natriuretic peptides and their receptors

Douglas B. Gould, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Human Genetics
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Genetic and molecular mechanisms of ocular and cerebrovascular diseases

Carl Grunfeld, MD, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Immunology
Metabolic Changes and the Host Response to Infection

Yadong Huang, MD, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Neurobiology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Lily Jan, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Neurobiology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Potassium Channels

Jacquelyn Maher, MD
Primary Research Interest: Tissue/Organ Biology & Endocrinology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Tissue-protective cytokines; fatty liver disease

Takashi Mikawa, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Developmental Regulation of Organogenesis

Jeffrey Olgin, MD
Primary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias

David Pearce, MD
Primary Research Interest: Tissue/Organ Biology & Endocrinology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Regulation of gene expression and epithelial ion transport by stress steroids

Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Cancer Biology and Cell Signaling, Human Genetics, Vascular & Cardiac Biology

Signaling at the Primary Cilium, the Cell's Antenna


Robin Shaw, MD, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Regulation of Cardiac Ion Channels: Cytoskeleton and Membrane Targeting


Dean Sheppard, MD
Primary Research Interest: Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Secondary Research Interest:Vascular & Cardiac Biology, Tissue/Organ Biology & Endocrinology

In vivo function of integrins and molecular basis of lung diseases

Deepak Srivastava, MD
Primary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Human Genetics , Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Molecular and genetic dissection of cardiogenesis and its role in human disease

Didier Stainier, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Zebrafish Developmental Genetics/Cardiovascular Development

Zena Vexler, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Neurobiology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology, Immunology
Inflammatory mechanisms of injury and repair after adult and neonatal stroke

Rong Wang, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Signaling in Embryonic and Tumor Angiogenesis

Orion Weiner, PhD
Primary Research Interest: Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Cell polarity during chemotaxis

Midori Yenari, MD
Primary Research Interest: Neurobiology
Secondary Research Interest: Vascular & Cardiac Biology, Immunology
Inflammatory mechanisms in cerebral ischemia

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