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Ganesh Lab

Ann Arbor, MI

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Meet our Team

Our faculty, trainees, staff, and students work together to identify the genes that may play a role in how blood vessels can change shape, size, and composition. We investigate how these changes relate to cardiovascular disease to gain insight into the cellular and molecular pathways responsible for disease. This knowledge is needed to develop therapies that will positively impact the lives of pediatric and adult patients afflicted with hypertension, stroke, heart attacks, and other cardiovascular diseases.

Lab Members

Santhi Ganesh, MD
Professor, PI
Kristina Hunker, MS
Lab Manager
Nitin Kumar, PhD
Research Investigator
Stephanie Tseng-Rogenski, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Bilge Ozel, PhD
Research Area Specialist Sr
Fred Boehm, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ashley Hesson, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexander Katz, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cameron Pinnock, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ajletta Sangtani, MD Research Fellow
Namratha Atluri
Medical Student
Trisha Gupte
Medical Student
Destinee Harris
Graduate Student
James Little Graduate Student
George Roy
Graduate Student
Chang Xu, MS
Graduate Student
Min-Lee Yang, MS
Graduate Student
Jenna Andersen
Undergraduate
Research Assistant
Madelyn Bower
Undergraduate
Research Assistant
Claire Choi
Undergraduate
Research Assistant

Ella Kalapatapu Undergraduate
Research Assistant
Omair Said
Undergraduate
Research Assistant

Patient Study Team

Kevin Smith, MSIS
Research Project Manager
Keturah Crum, BS
Study Coordinator
Nathan Gillesby
Undergraduate Research
Assistant
Ellie Marks
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Evan Woodard
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Chrissy Parker, MS
Project Manager, Taubman Institute
Sunita Cherian, BA
Senior Programmer Analyst
Taubman Institute

Lab PI: Santhi K. Ganesh, M.D.

David J. Pinsky MD Endowed Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, and Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan
Director, Michigan Biological Research Initiative on Sex Differences

Dr. Ganesh studies the genetic and molecular basis of vascular diseases. She completed undergraduate and medical school at Northwestern University, after which she trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and Cardiovascular Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine. Her lab has had continuous extramural funding, and she serves on multiple grant study sections and the JCI Insight editorial board. She directs the Michigan Biologic Research Initiative in Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease (M-BRISC) program at the Frankel Cardiovascular Center which aims to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to identify and study mechanisms of sex dimorphism underlying cardiovascular traits and diseases.

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University of Michigan
Cardiovascular Medicine
7220 MSRB III, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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