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UCLA Cardiovascular Research Theme

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UCLA Cardiovascular Research Theme

Research Faculty

Research Faculty

Faculty performing laboratory based research listed according to primary area of investigation.

Arrhythmia biology and neurocardiology

  • Olujimi Ajijola
  • Jeffrey Ardell
  • Kalyanam Shivkumar
  • John Tompkins
  • Marmar Vaseghi

Ion channel biology

  • Stephen Cannon
  • Alan Garfinkel
  • Scott John
  • Thao Nguyen
  • Riccardo Olcese
  • Michela Ottolia
  • Zhilin Qu

Cardiac development and congenital heart disease

  • Yalda Afshar
  • Jau-Nian Chen
  • Atsushi Nakano
  • Marlin Touma
  • Pearl Quijada 

Vascular biology, mechanotransduction and vascular calcification

  • Kristina Bostrom
  • Hua Linda Cai
  • Linda Demer and Yin Tintut
  • Tzung Hsiai
  • Julia Mack
  • Yucheng Yao

Atherosclerosis and lipid biology

  • Anne Beigneux
  • Alan Fogelman
  • Loren Fong
  • Srinivasa Reddy
  • Tamer Sallam
  • Elizabeth Tarling
  • Thomas Vallim
  • Stephen Young

Heart failure, cardio-oncology and environmental cardiology

  • Jesus Araujo
  • Rajesh Kumar
  • Rene Packard
  • Thomas Vondriska

Cardiovascular genomics and systems biology

  • Jake Lusis
  • Jessica Wang
  • Yibin Wang

Cardiovascular proteomics and big data

  • Peipei Ping
  • Karol Watson

Right heart disorders and pulmonary hypertension

  • Mansoureh Eghbali
  • Soban Umar 

Stem cells, regenerative cardiology, cardiac fibrosis and extracellular matrix biology

  • Reza Ardehali
  • Arjun Deb
  • Song Li
  • Rachelle Crosbie-Watson

Cardiac imaging and physiology

  • Peng Hu
  • Kim-Lien Nguyen
  • Kenneth Roos

Clinical Research Faculty 

  • Eric Yang 
  • Jamil Aboulhosn
  • Olcay Aksoy
  • Rushi Parikh
  • Ali Nsair
  • Gregg Fonarow 
  • Boback Ziaeian
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