#AHA25 also congratulations to @eduardomarban.bsky.social for receiving the George Brown lectureship and Jiang Chang for the Thomas Smith lectureship! Well-deserved ❤️🎉👍🙌

Ying Ge@yingge2121.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#AHA25 Huge Congratulations to Jenny on winning the prestigious AHA BCVS Distinguished Achievement Award! Well-deserved! 🎉❤️🙌👏@vaneykj.bsky.social @jyates.bsky.social

Delighted to welcome these three new stars to our faculty: Stephen Nageotte and Mark Sklansky to our congenital heart program, and Eli Friedman to lead #SportsCardiology!

Smidt Heart Institute@smidtheart.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We are delighted to welcome 3 new members to the Dept of Cardiology. Dr. Eli Friedman, Director of Sports Cardiology; Dr. Stephen Nageotte, Director of the Congenital Catheterization Lab; Dr. Mark Sklansky, Medical Director of the Pediatric and Fetal Cardiology Outreach Congenital Heart Program.

For the 12th year in a row, @smidtheart.bsky.social has been ranked #1 in California for Cardiology, Heart, and Vascular Surgery by @usnews.com! www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...

Fascinating @smidtheart.bsky.social research seminar by Farah Sheikh of @ucsandiego.bsky.social on #ARVC— #BenchToBedside journey towards AAV gene therapy with PKP2, now in clinical trials!

Our lab hosts a few select UCLA #undergraduates as #interns. One of our stellar interns, working with #postdoc Junlang Li, just presented her work at the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase— #EVs from #iPSCs— check it out! youtu.be/ElnJW6-UrqQ

Medical Research: Prerecorded - Panel 9 - Presentation 4

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Congrats Sumeet! www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-exe...

Cedars-Sinai appoints chief AI health research officer - Becker's Hospital Review | Healthcare News & Analysis

Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has promoted Sumeet Chugh, MD, to serve as vice dean and chief artificial intelligence health research officer.  In this newly created role, Dr. Chugh will lead efforts ...

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Proud to announce Dr. Sumeet Chugh has been promoted to vice dean & chief #ArtificialIntelligence health research officer at Cedars-Sinai leading the new Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Research Center (AIMRC)! #AI www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced...

Healing the heart! @eduardomarban.bsky.social & team discover the long non-coding RNA BCYRN1 contained in extracellular vesicles from cardiosphere-derived cells modulates Tregs and reduces damage in a mouse heart-attack model: buff.ly/n1q0Bac

Healing the heart! @eduardomarban.bsky.social & team discover the long non-coding RNA BCYRN1 contained in extracellular vesicles from cardiosphere-derived cells modulates Tregs and reduces damage in a mouse heart-attack model: buff.ly/n1q0Bac

Pleased to share our paper: #EVs released from #heart #postMI travel to #brain and cause #neuroinflammation, underlying #depression. Work of Ke Liao, PhD ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.11…

Wonderful Research In Progress update by NIH T32 Fellow, Jonah Zarrow, on developing novel #ncRNA drugs for #Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Important work for #DMD! @eduardomarban.bsky.social @smidtheart.bsky.social @mda.org

Great #Breakout #Session at Cedars Sinai Faculty Retreat #NewTherapies from #Concept to #Clinic Fantastic panel ➡️ Dr. Eduardo Marban @eduardomarban.bsky.social describing his pathway to #clinic #CDCs followed by Dr. Anand Karumanchi going over his experiences towards #translation #regulatorypathways

Brilliant @smidtheart.bsky.social research seminar by Rajan Sah MD PhD of Washington University on SWELL channels and their role in #platelet #thrombosis. Big implications for therapeutics of #MI and #stroke. #CardioSky

Provocative @smidtheart.bsky.social #cardiology grand rounds by Rita Redberg who highlights the low bar set for @fda.gov approval of medical devices. Hard clinical endpoints in adequately powered trials sorely lacking. No wonder investors prefer devices over drugs or novel biological therapies!

Inspiring start to Cedars Sinai’s academic retreat by Shlomo Melmed, MD, who emphasizes how our unique structure enables progress towards science-based clinical innovation.

New discoveries abound in @ahmedgibrahim.bsky.social as evidenced today by #labmeeting on #EVs and #ncRNAs from genetically engineered #fibroblasts that pulled a Jekyll and Hyde, becoming salutary post- #MI. Great work of Hiroaki Komuro! #CardioSky

Let's get #ACC25 started! ⬇️Check out the agenda and don't miss hearing from @smidtheart.bsky.social! Follow us all weekend for highlights! @accintouch.bsky.social

Recent paper published in @jclinical-invest.bsky.social from @eduardomarban.bsky.social & Ke Liao finds a #ncRNA that enhances #Treg cells that could potentially repair heart muscle damage after a #HeartAttack & be applied to a variety of inflammatory disorders. www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/pre...

Preclinical Study: After Heart Attack, a Boost in Anti-Inflammatory Cells Promoted Healing

A scientific technique that rapidly increases the body’s production of anti-inflammatory cells promoted healing from heart attacks in mice, according to a new study by investigators from the Smidt Hea...

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Check out the in-press preview of our @jclinicalinvest paper on regulatory #Tcells — we discovered a #ncRNA that can enhance #Treg dynamics fast enough to improve #MI healing in vivo. New hope for refractory inflammatory and immune conditions? 🔗 www.jci.org/articles/vie...

We’re ready for day 2 of the #HFpEFSummit listening in on sessions about exercise intolerance and the new and late breaking clinical trials! Exciting day ahead!

@russellrogers.bsky.social discussed experiments w/Lefer Lab taking advantage of the mechanistic differences between #GLP1RA & #ncRNA #TY1 as therapeutics for #HFpEF. Compelling evidence for synergistic benefits in two rodent models! Potential for less skeletal muscle loss? @smidtheart.bsky.social

The incomparable @mkittlesonmd.bsky.social teaches us that #HFpEF is a diagnosis of exclusion— rule out AS, HCM, pericardial constriction and, above all, #amyloidosis.

Pleased to share out latest work on cell therapy for #Duchenne. We show #deramiocel therapy initiated early protects against disease-related decline in muscle function. @eduardomarban.bsky.social @smidtheart.bsky.social @stemcellreports.bsky.social @mda.org

Long-term preservation of muscle function and structure by repeated administration of cardiosphere-derived cells in mdx mice

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a progressive disease associated with functional decline. Chronic administration of cardiosphere-derived cell therapy prevents disease-related functional decline f...

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Single nuclei #RNAseq of human #HFpEF heart biopsies by Virginia Hahn of @hopkinsheart.bsky.social reveals interesting #macrophage specific changes. Lots of provocative findings!

Great opening lecture by #HFpEF pioneer @dakheartguy.bsky.social on #sarcomere abnormalities— huge differences in #calcium activated force in #myocytes from obese vs morbidly obese patients. Clinical correlation less evident… @smidtheart.bsky.social #CardioSky

The final agenda is up! We can't wait to see you tomorrow. Follow us Thursday and Friday for meeting highlights! #HFpEF

We are less than 3 weeks away from the start of the #HFpEF Conference! There's still a few spots left, grab your seat now. Registration🔗 hfpefsummit.org

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Join the HFpEF Summit, March 19–21, 2025, at The Maybourne Beverly Hills. Connect with global leaders in HFpEF research.

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Smidt Heart Institute@smidtheart.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're counting down to the HFpEF Summit! 🗓️March 19-21 🏨Beverly Hills, CA Looking forward to hearing from a great line up of internationally recognized leaders in the clinical, biological, and translational study of #HFpEF. See you there! 🔗 hfpefsummit.org

On #RareDiseaseDay, we honor the families who are fighting for a cure. #DuchenneMD, a disease that weakens muscles & affects the heart. Research led by @eduardomarban.bsky.social offers hope through #CellTherapy slowing #HF. This breakthrough may extend lives & change futures. tiny.cc/8hob001

Potential Treatment for Heart Disease Caused by Duchenne MD

Catherine Jayasuriya thought it was strange her then-6-year-old son, Dusty Brandom, seemed to fall down more often than other children and couldn’t keep up with his siblings. That year, 1998, Jayasuri...

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Echoing this! 💙 A big THANK YOU to our fellows for your hard work and dedication—you make a difference every day! #ThankAFellow #HeartHeroes

Smidt Heart Institute@smidtheart.bsky.social · last yr.

Sending 🫶 to all of our fellows and residents! Thank you for your dedication, hard work, and commitment to providing the best patient care.

👋 Say hi to our friends at @womensheart.bsky.social! Be sure to follow to keep up with the latest news from our Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center. 🫶 #CardioSky

Inspiring kickoff to @fda.gov Cell Therapy workshop with keynote lecture by Sally Temple— PSC-derived neural cells are coming into their own! FDA CBER has been highly supportive of this transformative field.