Joseph C. Wu

Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD is Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Professor in the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and Radiology at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Wu has received several awards, including the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Career Award for Medical Scientists (2007), the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2008), the Baxter Foundation Faculty Award (2008), the NIH Roadmap Transformative Award (2009), the AHA National Innovative Research Award (2009), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers given by President Obama (2010), the AHA Established Investigator Award (2013), and the Academy of Radiology Research Distinguished Investigator Award (2014). Dr. Wu is a Councilor for the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and a Scientific Advisory Board member for the Keystone Symposia. Dr. Wu has published >200 manuscripts. His lab uses a combination of genomics, cellular & molecular biology, physiological testing, and molecular imaging technologies to better understand molecular and pathophysiological processes. His lab works on biological mechanisms of patient-specific and disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The main goals are for (i) understanding cardiovascular disease mechanism, (ii) accelerate drug discovery and screening, and (iii) develop personalized medicine platforms.