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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
William T. Pu, MD 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
Jane W. Newburger, MD, MPH 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
Sarah D. de Ferranti, MD, MPH T32 Associate Director	Associate Professor, HMS; Chief of Outpatient Cardiology, BCH Dept. of Cardiology	Understanding and reducing atherosclerotic risk in childhood
Vassilios J. Bezzerides, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor, HMS; Electrophysiologist, BCH Dept. of Cardiology	Inherited arrhythmias; Cardiac gene therapy
Joyce Bischoff, PhD	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
David M. Briscoe, MD	Professor, HMS; Nephrology, BCH	Transplant immunobiology
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
Kaifu Chen, PhD	Associate Professor, HMS; Director of Computational Biology, BCH Dept. of Cardiology	Computational biology; Epigenetics; Chromatin structure; Cell identity genes
Kevin P. Daly, MD	Assistant Professor, HSM; Heart Failure and Transplant, BCH Dept of Cardiology	Biomarkers for CAV; Clinical trials in heart failure and transplant
Pedro J. del Nido, MD	Professor, HMS; Chief, BCH Cardiac Surgery	Heart valve disease, Reconstructive surgery in the beating heart
Pierre E. Dupont, PhD	Professor, HMS; BCH Cardiac Surgery	Design & control of novel medical robots and instruments, modeling tool-tissue interaction
Elazer Edelman, MD PhD	Professor, MIT and HMS; Director, Inst for Med Eng and Science, MIT	Cardiolovascular pathophysiology, Biomedical Engineering
Kevin Friedman, MD	Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Dept. of Cardiology	Fetal diagnosis and management of complex congenital heart disease; Kawasaki Disease
Robert E. Gerszten, MD	Professor, HMS; Chief of Cardiology, BIDMC	Cardiac and metabolic diseases
Tal Geva, MD	Professor, HMS; Chief of Cardiology, BCH	Cardiac non-invasive imaging and congenital heart disease outcomes
Michelle Gurvitz, MD, MS	Assistant Professor, HMS; Adult congenital heart disease, BCH/BWH	Population health, adult congenital heart disease
Timothy Hla, PhD	Professor, HMS; Vascular Biology, BCH	Angiogenesis, vascular biology, lipid mediators
John N. Kheir, MD	Associate Professor, HMS; Cardiac ICU; co-director, Translational Research Lab, BCH Dept. of Cardiology	Oxygen metabolism
Stella Kourembanas, MD	Professor, HMS; Chief of Newborn Medicine, BCH	Molecular and cellular basis of lung inflammation, hypoxic signaling, and developmental lung injury
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
Kenneth D. Mandl, MD, MPH	Professor, HMS; Director of Computational Health Informatics, BCH	Innovation in biomedical informatics for discovery, population health, and care system redesign
Juan Melero-Martin, PhD	Associate Professor, HMS; BCH Cardiac Surgery	Endothelial cell biology; vascularization
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
Amy E. Roberts, MD	Associate Professor, HMS; CV Genetics, BCH	Genetics of congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and Rasopathies
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
Wayne Tworetzky, MD	Associate Professor, HMS; Director of Fetal Cardiology, BCH	Fetal cardiology
Christopher Walsh, MD, PhD	Professor, HMS; Chief of Genetics and Genomics, BCH	Brain cortex development
Da-Zhi Wang, PhD	Professor, HMS; Dept. of Cardiology, BCH	Molecular mechanisms of heart development and disease

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Department of Cardiology NIH-funded T32 Training Program

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