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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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