People
Principal Investigators

Tobias Deuse, MD
Professor of Surgery
The Julien I.E. Hoffman, M.D. Endowed Chair in Cardiac Surgery
Principal Investigator, TSI Lab
Division of Cardiac Surgery & Lung Transplantation
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Director, Minimally-Invasive Cardiac Surgery, UCSF Health
Surgical Director, Transcatheter Valve Program, UCSF Health
Research Scientists

Grigol Tediashvili
Associate Specialist
Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology (TSI) Lab
Division of Cardiac Surgery and Lung Transplantation
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Collaborators

Matti Adam, MD
Interventional Cardiologist / Cardiologist University Hospital Cologne – Heart Center
Cologne, Germany

Sean Agbor-Enoh, MD
Lasker Clinical Research Scholar
Applied Precision Omics
NIH/CC/CCMD
Co-Director, GRAFT-NHLBI-NIH-CC

Juan P. Bolaños, PhD
Professor
University of Salamanca
Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics
Spain

Thomas Eschenhagen, MD PhD
Institute Director
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology
Germany

Joerg Heeren, PhD
Deputy Institute Director
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology
Germany

Bjoern Peters, PhD
Associate Professor
La Jolla University
Institute for Allergy and Immunology
USA

Hermann Reichenspurner, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
University Heart Center Hamburg
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Germany

Robert C. Robbins, MD
President
University of Arizona
USA

Philip S. Tsao, PhD
Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine
USA

Joachim Velden, MD
Global Head Histopathology, In vivo Pharmacology
Evotec AG Hamburg
Germany

Irving Weissman, MD
Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Developmental Biology
USA