Congenital heart defects affect more than 25,000 infants born each year in the United States Heart disease is the leading cause of death in newborns. These heart defects often require multiple surgeries, a lifetime of medications and various preventive measures to keep the heart working. For some patients, their only hope is a heart transplant — but often there are not enough donated organs available for transplant.
The Congenital Heart Disease Center is intended to change the future of congenital heart disease within the next decade. Focused on improvements in diagnosis, treatment and prevention, research from this Center in tissue regeneration, nutrition and human genomics is providing breathtaking new approaches for the cure of these now fatal defects.
Learn more about Currently Funded Research.
Featured Research:
Metabolic Mechanisms of Cardiac Failure in Congenital Heart Disease – Patrick Y. Jay, M.D., Ph.D.
Factors Affecting Neural Crest Development - Robert Heuckeroth, M.D.
The Heart of the Matter - Jennifer Gries Duncan, M.D.
Members
| Robert P. Mecham, Ph.D. |
Alumni Professor of Cell Biology, Interim Director |
| Kendall J. Blumer, Ph.D. |
Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology |
| Igor R. Efimov, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
| David I. Gottlieb, Ph.D. |
Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology |
| Mark R. Holland, Ph.D. |
Research Associate Professor in Physics |
| Patrick Y. Jay, M.D., Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics |
| Stephen L. Johnson, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Genetics |
| Elaine R. Mardis, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Genetics |
| James G. Miller, Ph.D. |
Hill Professor of Physics |
| Robi D. Mitra, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor of Genetics |
| Kelle H. Moley, M.D. |
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Jeanne M. Nerbonne, Ph.D. |
Alumni Professor of Molecular Biology |
| Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D. |
Cori Professor of Cell Biology & Physiology |
| Ruth J. Okamoto, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Yoram Rudy, Ph.D. |
Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
| Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert, Ph.D. |
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
| Jean E. Schaffer, M.D. |
Associate Professor of Medicine |
| Larry A. Taber, Ph.D. |
Professor of Biomedical Engineering |
| Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D. |
Professor of Genetics |