Dr. Sean Wu joins the Consortium from Massachusetts General Hospital where he is an investigator at the Cardiovascular Research Center and a staff cardiologist.
He received his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He then went on to earn both his M.D. and his Ph.D. as part of the NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program at Duke University School of Medicine (1999).
Dr. Wu has received many awards and honors including:
Along with his work at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Wu is also:
Dr. Wu’s research focuses on identifying mechanisms responsible for heart formation and for human congenital heart disease, the most common cause of still-births in the U.S. and one of the major contributors to morbidity and mortality in infants and toddlers.
He believes that by understanding the mechanisms regulating growth and differentiation of heart precursor cells during early embryonic development, they can then apply these principles to understand the pathogenesis of adult onset heart diseases such as heart failure and arrhythmia where re-activation of early embryonic developmental program plays a central role.
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