Clinical Focus

• Heart and Lung Transplantation
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery

Administrative Appointments

• Chair,Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Director,Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine (2005 - present)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Naoyuki Kimura , Maarten Lijkwan , Steve Singh

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Cardiothoracic Surgery

Industry Relationships

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Current Research Interests

1. The investigation of the immunobiology and factors associated with the in vivo survival of mouse and human embryonic stems used for the treatment of congestive heart failure.
2. The study of genetic determinants of congestive heart failure.
3. Hemodynamic, MRI, Echocardiographic, and Molecular Imaging assessment of congestive heart failure and cell therapy in mice and rats.
4. The investigation of Apelin in congestive heart failure.
5. The study of the role of bcl-2 in cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
6. The development of automated coronary anastomotic devices.
7. The assessment of tissue engineered blood vessels.

Publications

• Haematopoietic stem cells adopt mature haematopoietic fates in ischaemic myocardium. Balsam LB, Wagers AJ, Christensen JL, Kofidis T, Weissman IL, Robbins RC. Nature. 2004; 428 (6983): 668-73
• IL-17 Contributes to the Development of Chronic Rejection in a Murine Heart Transplant Model. Itoh S, Nakae S, Axtell RC, Velotta JB, Kimura N, Kajiwara N, Iwakura Y, Saito H, Adachi H, Steinman L, Robbins RC, Fischbein MP. J Clin Immunol. 2010
• A nonviral minicircle vector for deriving human iPS cells. Jia F, Wilson KD, Sun N, Gupta DM, Huang M, Li Z, Panetta NJ, Chen ZY, Robbins RC, Kay MA, Longaker MT, Wu JC. Nat Methods. 2010; 7 (3): 197-9
• Timing of bone marrow cell delivery has minimal effects on cell viability and cardiac recovery after myocardial infarction. Swijnenburg RJ, Govaert JA, van der Bogt KE, Pearl JI, Huang M, Stein W, Hoyt G, Vogel H, Contag CH, Robbins RC, Wu JC. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010; 3 (1): 77-85
• Imaging gene expression in human mesenchymal stem cells: from small to large animals. Willmann JK, Paulmurugan R, Rodriguez-Porcel M, Stein W, Brinton TJ, Connolly AJ, Nielsen CH, Lutz AM, Lyons J, Ikeno F, Suzuki Y, Rosenberg J, Chen IY, Wu JC, Yeung AC, Yock P, Robbins RC, Gambhir SS. Radiology. 2009; 252 (1): 117-27