T32 Research Training Program | Overview
Department of Cardiology NIH-funded T32 Training Program
“Research Methods in Pediatric Cardiology," continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1984, is the Department of Cardiology’s research training program. The program’s goal is to train the next generation of researchers in pediatric cardiology and its allied fields of cardiac and vascular biology. It supports training of postdoctoral (MD, PhD, and MD-PhD) fellows and spans the breadth of basic, translational, and clinical research in vascular biology and cardiac biology. Based at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, the program’s faculty includes leaders in these fields, including: William Pu, Jane Newburger, Jon and Christine Seidman, Rob Gerszten, Anthony Rosenzweig, Calum MacRae, Timothy Hla, Joyce Bischoff, Geoff and Caroline Burns, Da-Zhi Wang, Kaifu Chen, Kit Parker, Lynn Sleeper, and Sarah de Ferranti.
The program is committed to developing the next generation of researchers in cardiovascular biology. It is committed to a diverse biomedical workforce, including groups traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research.
Applications
We accept applications on a rolling basis. Slots become available intermittently, and when available we will select from among the most qualified applicants. Applicants should be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Applicants should email their CV and cover letter. The cover letter should indicate their prospective mentor from our training program and additional factors such as membership in an under-represented group.
T32 Training Program mentors
Mentor | Positions | Research Interests |
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T32 Co-PI |
Professor, HMS Director of Basic and Transl. CV Research BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Heart and vessel development and disease; Gene regulation; Inherited heart disease models; Novel therapies for inherited heart disease |
T32 Co-PI |
Professor, HMS Associate Chief of Academic Affairs, BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Clinical trials and outcomes research in congenital and acquired heart disease in children, including Kawasaki disease |
T32 Associate Director |
Associate Professor, HMS; Chief of Outpatient Cardiology, BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Understanding and reducing atherosclerotic risk in childhood |
Assistant Professor, HMS; Electrophysiologist, BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Inherited arrhythmias; Cardiac gene therapy |
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Professor, HMS; Vascular Biology, BCH |
Endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs) and endothelial plasticity in vascular tumors and malformation. Vascular progenitor cells (including ECFCs) in building vascular networks in damaged and/or diseased tissue |
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Professor, HMS; Nephrology, BCH |
Transplant immunobiology |
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Geoffrey C. Burns, PhD |
Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Cardiovascular development, regeneration, and disease |
Caroline E. Burns, PhD |
Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Cardiovascular development, regeneration, and disease |
Associate Professor, HMS; Director of Computational Biology, BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Computational biology; Epigenetics; Chromatin structure; Cell identity genes |
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Assistant Professor, HSM; Heart Failure and Transplant, BCH Dept of Cardiology |
Biomarkers for CAV; Clinical trials in heart failure and transplant |
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Professor, HMS; Chief, BCH Cardiac Surgery |
Heart valve disease, Reconstructive surgery in the beating heart |
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Professor, HMS; BCH Cardiac Surgery |
Design & control of novel medical robots and instruments, modeling tool-tissue interaction |
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Elazer Edelman, MD PhD |
Professor, MIT and HMS; Director, Inst for Med Eng and Science, MIT |
Cardiolovascular pathophysiology, Biomedical Engineering |
Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Fetal diagnosis and management of complex congenital heart disease; Kawasaki Disease |
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Robert E. Gerszten, MD |
Professor, HMS; Chief of Cardiology, BIDMC |
Cardiac and metabolic diseases |
Professor, HMS; Chief of Cardiology, BCH |
Cardiac non-invasive imaging and congenital heart disease outcomes |
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Assistant Professor, HMS; Adult congenital heart disease, BCH/BWH |
Population health, adult congenital heart disease |
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Professor, HMS; Vascular Biology, BCH |
Angiogenesis, vascular biology, lipid mediators |
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Associate Professor, HMS; Cardiac ICU; co-director, Translational Research Lab, BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Oxygen metabolism |
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Professor, HMS; Chief of Newborn Medicine, BCH |
Molecular and cellular basis of lung inflammation, hypoxic signaling, and developmental lung injury |
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Richard T. Lee, MD |
Professor, HMS; Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology, Harvard |
Cardiac regeneration and aging |
Calum MacRae, MD, PhD |
Professor, HMS; Vice-Chair for Scientific Innovation, BWH |
Genetics, physiology, and drug discovery |
Professor, HMS; Director of Computational Health Informatics, BCH |
Innovation in biomedical informatics for discovery, population health, and care system redesign |
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Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Cardiac Surgery |
Endothelial cell biology; vascularization |
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Kevin Kit Parker, PhD |
Professor, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
Cellular mechanotransduction in the heart |
Brian Polizzotti, PhD |
Assistant Professor, HMS; Co-director, Translational Research Lab, BCH |
Translation at the interface of chemical engineering and medicine |
Associate Professor, HMS; CV Genetics, BCH |
Genetics of congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and Rasopathies |
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Anthony Rosenzweig, MD |
Professor, HMS; Chief of Cardiology, MGH |
Mechanisms of heart failure, exercise-mediated-cardioprotection, and cardiomyogenesis |
Christine E. Seidman, MD, PhD |
Professor, HMS; BWH Cardiology; HHMI |
Using genomic strategies to define causes of cardiovascular disease |
Jonathan G. Seidman, MD, PhD |
Professor, HMS; Department of Genetics, HMS |
Using genomic strategies to define causes of cardiovascular disease |
Lynn Sleeper, PhD |
Associate Professor, HMS; Scientific Director of Clinical Research, BCH Dept. of Cardiology |
Clinical outcomes research in pediatric cardiology |
Colin Stultz, MD, PhD |
Professor, MIT; Inst for Med Eng and Science, MIT; Cardiology, MGH |
Machine learning to identify patients at high risk of adverse clinical events |
Associate Professor, HMS; Director of Fetal Cardiology, BCH |
Fetal cardiology |
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Professor, HMS; Chief of Genetics and Genomics, BCH |
Brain cortex development |
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Professor, HMS; Dept. of Cardiology, BCH |
Molecular mechanisms of heart development and disease |