Human regenerative medicine will succeed, the questions are when and how. Dr. Srivastava’s laboratory discovered the genetic basis for several human cardiac birth defects and revealed complex gene networks that regulate stem cells to adopt a cardiac cell fate and subsequently fashion a functioning heart. He has leveraged this knowledge to convert scar-forming cells in the heart directly into muscle-like cells to regenerate damaged hearts.

Director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Professor at UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Srivastava received his B.S. from Rice University, M.D. from University of Texas, trained in pediatrics at UCSF, and in pediatric cardiology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Srivastava is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.

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