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Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor, Radiology
Member, Bio-X
Director, Cardiovascular Institute
Member, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
Member, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Center for IBD and Celiac Disease
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Medical Education: Yale School Of Medicine (1997) CT
Fellowship, UCLA Medical Center, Cardiovascular Medicine (2004)
PhD, UCLA, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology (2004)
MD, Yale University School of Medicine, Medicine (1997)
BS, UCLA, Biology (1993)
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Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD, is Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and the Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology. Dr. Wu received his MD from Yale University and PhD in molecular pharmacology from UCLA. He completed his internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship (STAR program) at UCLA. Dr. Wu is Past President of the American Heart Association (AHA) (2023-2024). He is co-founder of Greenstone Biosciences (https://greenstonebio.com), a startup that uses clinical genomics, organoids, new alternative methodologies (NAMs), and AI/ML to accelerate drug discovery. He also serves on the FDA Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee.
Dr. Wu has published >700 manuscripts with H-index of 147 on Google scholar and recognition as top 0.1% of highly cited researchers in Web of Science for past 8 years (2018-2025). His lab focuses on (i) cardiovascular disease mechanisms, (ii) drug discovery, (iii) "clinical trial in a dish" platform, and (iv) precision medicine for patient care. Among his trainees, >60 of them are principal investigators in the US or abroad.
Dr. Wu has received numerous awards, including National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, NIH Roadmap Transformative Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) given out by President Obama at the White House, American Heart Association (AHA) Innovative Research Award, AHA Established Investigator Award, AHA Merit Award, AHA Distinguished Scientist Award, and Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Innovation in Regulatory Science Award. Dr. Wu is on the national advisory board for the American Heart Association and Keystone Symposia.
Dr. Wu is an elected member of American Society of Clinical Investigators (ASCI), Association of University Cardiologists (AUC), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), American Association of Physicians (AAP), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
For more information, please visit his lab website: https://med.stanford.edu/wulab.html
Dr. Wu has published >700 manuscripts with H-index of 147 on Google scholar and recognition as top 0.1% of highly cited researchers in Web of Science for past 8 years (2018-2025). His lab focuses on (i) cardiovascular disease mechanisms, (ii) drug discovery, (iii) "clinical trial in a dish" platform, and (iv) precision medicine for patient care. Among his trainees, >60 of them are principal investigators in the US or abroad.
Dr. Wu has received numerous awards, including National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, NIH Roadmap Transformative Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) given out by President Obama at the White House, American Heart Association (AHA) Innovative Research Award, AHA Established Investigator Award, AHA Merit Award, AHA Distinguished Scientist Award, and Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Innovation in Regulatory Science Award. Dr. Wu is on the national advisory board for the American Heart Association and Keystone Symposia.
Dr. Wu is an elected member of American Society of Clinical Investigators (ASCI), Association of University Cardiologists (AUC), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), American Association of Physicians (AAP), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
For more information, please visit his lab website: https://med.stanford.edu/wulab.html