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	Apr 2013 Congratulations to Elina for receiving a 2-year T32 Vascular Biology training grant starting July 2013.
	Mar 2013 “Clinical trial in a petri dish” published in Circulation shows iPSC-CM is more predictive than hERG test for cardiac drug screening. More Information » More Information »
	Mar 2013 Dr. Wu received the CIRM Tissue Collection for Disease Modeling Award. More Information »
	Mar 2013 Congratulations to Feng Lan for receiving travel award to the Keystone meeting. More Information »
	Mar 2013 Dr. Wu elected to the Association of University Cardiologists. More Information »
	Mar 2013 Congratulation to Paul Burridge, Ging Sang and WonHee Lee for getting the ISHR Travel Award. More Information »
	Feb 2013 Dr. Wu interviewed by Nature Science-Business eXchange. More Information »
	Feb 2013 Dr. Wu interviewed by the radio show “Voice of Russia” on stem cell research. More Information »
	Jan 2013 Dr. Wu receives 5-year American Heart Association Established Investigator Award.
	Jan 2013 Paper on “Effects of Intracoronary CD34+ Stem Cell Transplantation in Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Patients” featured on the cover of Circulation Research.
	Jan 2013 Cell Stem Cell paper first to model familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with iPS cells More Information » before it's news » SF Chronicle »
	Dec 2012 Review article by Pearl et al published in Sci Transl Med More Information »
	Dec 2012 Dr. Wu becomes the co-Director of Stanford Cardiovascular Institute More Information »
	Nov 2012 Dr. Wu discussed the Late Breaking Clinical Trial on Cell Based Therapies for Myocardial Regeneration along with other colleagues at the 2012 American Heart Association meeting in Los Angeles More Information »
	Nov: AHA Scientific Session 2012 in Los Angeles Our presentation schedules More information PDF
	Oct 2012 Stanford undergrad Wendy Zhang received a $1500 travel award to present at the AHA meeting
	Sep 2012 Circulation Research article by Yongming Wang and Wendy Zhang on ZFN-editing of iPSCs for cellular imaging was featured on BioTechniques More Information »
	Sep 2012 Congrats to Mingxia Gu and Patricia Nguyen for having their paper on pig iPSCs published on the cover of Circulation Research
	Aug 2012 Congratulations to Jaecheol Lee for receiving the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
	Aug 2012 Drs. Robert Robbins and Joseph Wu received the CIRM Disease Team Grant. More Information »
	June 2012 Dr. Joseph Wu received a CIRM Early Translational III Award More Information »
	June 2012 Congrats to Paul Burridge for receiving a 2-year AHA postdoctoral fellowship
	June 2012 Congrats to Ning Sun for receiving a 2-year AHA postdoctoral fellowship
	June 2012 Congrats to Francie Barron for receiving a NHLBI sponsored T32 Training Grant in Myocardial Biology
	April 2012 Congrats to Ning for his paper featured on the cover of Science Translational Medicine in April 2012 More Information »
	April 2012 Congrats to Wendy Zhang receiving a $6000 Stanford Undergraduate Summer Research Award. More Information »
	April 2012 Dr. Wu selected as a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI). More Information »
	Mar 2012 Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Journal Clinical Investigation. More Information »
	Feb 2012 Congrats to Shijun Hu for his paper selected as the top 3 advances in AHA Basic Cardiovascular Sciences in 2011 More Information »
	February 2012 Dr. Wu taught a Stem Cell Web Conference for Smith College on “Modeling cardiovascular diseases with stem cells” More Information A » More Information B »
	Feb 2012 Sebastian Diecke received the German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant. More Information »
	Dec 2011 Dr. Wu was interviewed in an article on stem cell immunogenicity by The Economist magazine. PDF More Information »
	Dec 2011 Paper by Ahmad Sheikh and Bruno Huber featured on the cover of Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. More Information »
	Nov 2011 Dr. Joseph Wu (Stanford) and Dr. Dara Kraitchman (Johns Hopkins University) published a book on “Stem Cell Labeling For Delivery and Tracking Using Noninvasive Imaging More Information »
	Nov 2011 Dr. Michael Snyder (Professor of Genetics) and Dr. Wu received a $12 million program project grant on epigenetics of iPS cell reprogramming. More Information »
	Nov 2011 Dr. Kazim Narsinh received the Vivien Thomas finalist award at the 2011 American Heart Association meeting.
	Oct 2011 Dr. Wu received the Bernard and Joan Marshall Research Excellence Prize from the British Society for Cardiovascular Research.
	October 2011 Dr. Wu taught the MiniMed Stanford course on Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair More Information »
	Sept 2011 Congrats to Nahid Abu for receiving a NIAID sponsored T32 Training Grant in Molecular and Cellular Immunobiology.
	July 2011 Congrats to Jordan Plews for receiving a NHLBI sponsored T32 Training Grant in Vascular Biology
	June 2011 Dr. Wu interviewed in an article focusing on tracking stem cells in The Scientists. More Information »
	June 2011 Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Circulation Research.
	May 2011 Dr. Wu selected as one of 24 investigators to participate in the “NIH Innovation Brainstorm: Transforming Discovery into Impact” hosted by Drs. Francis Collins and James Anderson. More Information » PDF
	May 2011 Bruno Huber received the German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant. More Information »
	May 2011 Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Stem Cell Research.
	May 2011 Congratulations to Jong Hyuck Won for receiving a research grant from the Stanford Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Scholarship. More Information »
	May 2011 Congratulations to Kazim Narsinh for being selected as the winner for the UCSD Thomas E. Carew Prize. More Information »
	May 2011 Congratulations to Li Wang for receiving a 2-year AHA Postdoc Grant. More Information »
	May 2011 Congratulations to Mei Huang for receiving a 2-year AHA Beginning Grant in Aid. More Information »
	May 2011 Dr. Wu quoted in Nature news regarding immunogenicity of iPS cells. More Information »
	May 2011 Dr. Joseph Wu received the CIRM Basic Biology III Award. More Information »
	April 2011 Congratulations to Sujin Park for receiving a Bio-X Undergraduate Research Award. More Information »
	April 2011 Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Molecular Therapy.
	April 2011 Congratulations to Wendy Zhang for receiving the American Heart Association Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Award. More Information »
	April 2011 Congratulations to Divya Nag for receiving the American Heart Association Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Award. More Information »
	April 2011 Dr. Wu interviewed in an article focusing on In Vivo Stem Cell Imaging in Biotechniques. More Information »
	March 2011 Kazim Narsinh received the RSNA Research & Education Foundation’s Research Medical Student Grant. More Information »
	March 2011 Patricia Almeida received the 2011 ISHLT (International Society For Heart & Lung Transplantation) Research Fellowship Award. More Information »
	March 2011 Eugene Gu was awarded a fellowship to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research. More Information »
	March 2011 A study published in Cell Stem Cell by Jeremy Pearl, Mark Davis, and Joseph Wu was featured in 2011 MIPS News. More Information »
	February 2011 Joseph Wu was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times regarding regarding research in iPS cell epigenetic memory. More Information »
	Dec 2010 Antje Ebert received the German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant. More Information »
	Novemeber 2010 Dr. Wu is one of 85 researchers named by President Obama to receive the Ealry Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. This is the highest honor that the US government awards to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. More Information at PECASE » More Information at Stanford News »
	July 2010 Ning Sun received the Oak Foundation Cardiovascular Grant.
	July 2010 Dr. Wu was profiled by Burroughs Wellcome Foundation. More Information »
	July 2010 Work by Zhumur Ghosh on donor cell memory for iPSCs was cited in Boston Globe. More Information »
	June, 2010 Veronica Sanchez received the Swiss National Science Foundation(SNSF) Grant. More Information »
	May 28, 2010 Andrew Lee received a 3-Year Bio-X Graduate Research Fellowship.
	May 26, 2010 Shijun Hu received a 2-year American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship.
	April 28, 2010 Wendy Zhang received a Bio-X Undergraduate Research Award.
	April 13, 2010 Divya Nag received a research grant from the Stanford Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Scholarship.
	March 23, 2010 Andrew Lee received a RSNA Medical Student Grant.
	March 16, 2010 Patricia Nguyen received the ACC/GE Healthcare Career Development Award.
	February, 2010 Work by Fangjun Jia on non-viral minicircle iPSC was featured in several news outlet. More Information »
	February 17, 2010 Wendy Zhang received a research grant from the Stanford Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Scholarship.
	February 16, 2010 Andrew Lee received a travel scholarship from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
	September 24, 2009 Joseph Wu receives the 2009 NIH Director's Transformative R01 Award. More information »
	September 7, 2009 Research by the Wu Lab in collaboration with Dr. Michael Longaker is featured in CNN. The article highlights the use of minicircles to reprogram fat cells into pluripotent stem cells. More Information »
	July 2009 Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Human Gene Therapy.
	June 1, 2009 Jeremy Pearl was awarded a second year of fellowship to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research. More Information »
	April 17, 2009 Andrew Lee was awarded a fellowship to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research. More Information »
	April 13, 2009 Kazim Narsinh was awarded a fellowship to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research. More Information »
	Jan 2009 Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.
	September 22, 2008 Joseph Wu receives the 2008 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Recipients. More Information »
	August 19, 2008 Research by the Wu Lab on the potential of stem cell rejection is featured in Scientific American news. The article highlights our study on the use of noninvasive molecular imaging technique to track the fate of transplanted hESCs and monitor the effects of immunosuppressant therapy. More Information » View Publication »
	July 2008 Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.
	June 24, 2008 Zongjin Li has been awarded the Mitzi and William Blahd, MD Pilot Research Grant from the Education and Research Foundation for the Society of Nuclear Medicine for his proposal entitled "Molecular Imaging of Stem Cell Differentiation and Function".
	March 31, 2008 Zongjin Li has received the ACCF/Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award from the American College of Cardiology. .
	Jan 2008 Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.
	November 7, 2007 Joseph Wu is interviewed by USA today regarding the role of stem cell therapy in repairing damaged hearts. More Information »
	October 15, 2007 Research by the Wu Lab in quantum dot imaging is featured in Nanowerk. The article highlights our study on the utility of quantum dots for imaging stem cell therapy. More Information » View Publication »
	June 5, 2007 Kitch Wilson received the prestigious Stanford Bio-X Program Graduate Student Fellowship to support his innovative proposal on a project looking at microenvironmental niches of stem cell homing.
	May 30, 2007 Mei Huang received a 2-year American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship.
	May 10, 2007 Dr. Wu was awarded BWF Career Awards at the Biomedical Sciences. View Publication
	March 13, 2007 Feng Cao received the 2006 Best Basic Science paper in journal of Circulation for her paper, "In Vivo Visualization of Embryonic Stem Cell Survival, Proliferation, and Migration After Cardiac Delivery". View Publication
	June 15, 2005 Feng Cao was awarded an American Society of Nuclear Cardiology grant in cardiovascular molecular imaging.