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Ali J. Marian
Ali J. Marian is a physician-scientist in cardiovascular genetics, Professor and Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Genetics at UTHealth Houston, known for research on hereditary cardiomyopathies.
Amit V. Khera
Amit V. Khera is an American cardiologist and human geneticist known for genome-wide polygenic scores showing inherited coronary artery disease risk can be quantified from birth.
Anders Hamsten
Anders Hamsten is a Swedish physician-scientist at Karolinska Institutet who showed in the 1980s that high PAI-1 levels raise heart attack risk in young survivors.
Anne Tybjærg‐Hansen
Anne Tybjærg-Hansen is a Danish clinical biochemist and cardiovascular geneticist, Chief Physician at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, known for genetic studies of lipoproteins and heart disease, winning the 2018 Anitschkow Prize.
Carolyn Y. Ho
Carolyn Y. Ho is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist who directs the Cardiovascular Genetics Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and leads research and trials on early-stage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Christopher J. O’Donnell
Christopher J. O'Donnell is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist who led cardiovascular genomics research at the Framingham Heart Study and NHLBI, then joined Novartis in 2021.
Christopher Newton‐Cheh
Christopher Newton-Cheh is an American heart failure cardiologist and cardiovascular geneticist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for large-scale genetic studies of blood pressure.
Christopher Semsarian
Christopher Semsarian AM is an Australian cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney known for research into the genetic causes of sudden cardiac death in young people.
Dianna M. Milewicz
Dianna M. Milewicz is an American medical geneticist at UTHealth Houston who studies the genetics of thoracic aortic aneurysms and directs the John Ritter Research Program.
Frederick E. Dewey
Frederick E. Dewey is a cardiologist and human geneticist who trained at Stanford and led translational genetics at the Regeneron Genetics Center, studying rare gene variants as drug targets.
Guillaume Paré
Guillaume Paré is a Canadian physician-scientist and Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University, known for his 2010 study of CYP2C19 genotype and clopidogrel.
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert is a German cardiologist who has been Professor of Cardiology at the Technical University of Munich and Director of Cardiology at the German Heart Centre Munich since 2012.
Hugh Watkins (British physician-scientist)
Hugh Watkins is a British physician-scientist at the University of Oxford who established that mutations in the heart's motor proteins cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and who leads CureHeart.
James Bristow
James Bristow is a physician-scientist in pediatric cardiology and human genetics, a UCSF professor who showed that tenascin-X deficiency causes a recessive form of Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.
James J. Nora
James J. Nora, full name James Jackson Nora, was an American physician who proposed the multifactorial inheritance hypothesis of congenital heart disease and did early heart transplantation work.
Jeffrey A. Towbin
Jeffrey A. Towbin is an American pediatric cardiologist known for gene discovery in the cardiomyopathies and the "final common pathway" hypothesis of heart muscle disease.
Jonathan G. Seidman
Jonathan G. Seidman, also published as J.G. Seidman, is a Harvard Medical School geneticist who identified genes causing inherited heart disease and the first genetic causes of congenital heart malformations.
Juan P. Casas
Juan P. Casas, also known as Juan Pablo Casas, is a Colombian-trained genetic epidemiologist at UCL and LSHTM who uses Mendelian randomisation to test cardiovascular causes.
Klaus Lindpaintner
Klaus Lindpaintner is an Austrian-born physician-scientist in cardiology and cardiovascular genetics, known for large 1990s prospective studies of gene polymorphisms and heart disease, and later industry roles at Roche, Pfizer, and Thermo Fisher.
M. Alan Permutt
M. Alan Permutt, full name Marshall Alan Permutt (1939–2012), was an American physician and diabetes geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis who led the identification of the first type 2 diabetes gene.
Muredach P. Reilly
Muredach P. Reilly is an Irish-trained cardiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University, recruited from Penn in 2016, known for identifying the ADAMTS7 gene locus for coronary atherosclerosis.
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani is a British cardiologist and human geneticist, Professor of Cardiology at the University of Leicester, whose research established the inherited basis of coronary artery disease.
Pablo García‐Pavía
Pablo García-Pavía is a Spanish cardiologist who leads the inherited cardiac diseases unit at Puerta de Hierro hospital in Madrid and researches transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.
Pradeep Natarajan
Pradeep Natarajan is an American preventive cardiologist and cardiovascular geneticist who directs Preventive Cardiology at Mass General Hospital and studies how genetic variation shapes heart disease risk.
Steve E. Humphries
Steve E. Humphries is a British cardiovascular geneticist who was British Heart Foundation Professor at University College London from 1991 to 2015, known for work on familial hypercholesterolaemia genetics.