Neil C. Chi, MD, PhD, is director of the UCSD Cardiac Tissue Harvest and Biorepository Core and UCSD MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). He focuses on cardiac development and regeneration; novel disease gene targets and treatment; and gene and stem cell based therapies. More about Dr. Neil Chi.

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• Congratulations to Dekker Deacon on his Nature Biomedical Engineering paper and cover that explores the genetic complexity of human dilated cardiomyopathy using mouse and human pluripotent stem cell models.
• Congratulations to Manuel Galvez-Santisteban and Danni Chen on their eLife paper that investigates the impact of hemodynamics on cardiac regeneration in zebrafish.
  
• Congratulations to Ting Li on his co-first author Nature Genetics paper with Yanxiao Zhang, which uncovers a novel role for retrotransposons in creating topologically associating domains in human pluripotent stem cells.
  
• Congratulations to Jie Ren on her Developmental Cell paper and cover that reveals a role for Wnt5 in specifying Nkx2.5+ cardiac progenitors to pacemaker cardiomyocytes using zebrafish and human pluripotent stem cell models.
• Congratulations to Qingquan Zhang and Dan Carlin on their Circulation Research paper that identifies and characterizes a new field of cardiac progenitors that contribute to creating the mammalian heart
  

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