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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
Associate Professor, PI
Kristina Hunker, MS
Lab Manager
Dawn Coleman, MD
Associate Professor
Ashley Hesson, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nitin Kumar, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cameron Pinnock
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yu Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ajletta Sangtani, MD
Research Fellow
Rebecca Jean
Undergraduate Research Technician

Chang Xu, MS
Graduate Student

Min-Lee Yang, MS
Graduate Student

Patient Study Team

Kevin Smith, MSIS
Research Project Manager
Kailtlyn Aldaz, BA
Study Coordinator
Shirley Liu, MS
Research Assistant

Kit Crum
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Keely Long
Undergraduate Research Assistant

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

David J. Pinsky MD Endowed Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate 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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