The Heart of Stem Cell Research

The Heart of Stem Cell Research

UW Medicine physicians Michael Laflamme, MD, April Stempien-Otero, MD and Chuck Murry, MD are on the verge of using stem cells the grow new heart muscles in a labratory and inject those new cells into a patients heart, to help repair it after a heart attack.


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Michael Laflamme, MD

Michael Laflamme, MD

My laboratory is broadly interested in the use of stem cells for cardiac repair, but with a particular emphasis on the preclinical development of cardiac therapies based on human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). Much of our recent work ...

April Stempien-Otero, MD

April Stempien-Otero, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine Associate Program Director for Research, Cardiology Fellowship Craig Tall Family Endowed Chair in Heart Failure Research Attending Physician, University of Washington Medical Center

Charles Murray, MD

Charles Murray, MD

Dr. Murry is a cardiovascular pathologist whose clinical interests span ischemic heart disease, cardiac transplantation, atherosclerosis, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, valvular disease and non-atherosclerotic vascular disease. Dr. Murry’s ...