Heart rhythm and rate control by genes and cells
Our research seeks to understand how the heart rhythm is generated and conducted to pace the entire heart. We translate our mechanistic insights toward clinical therapies with the goal of developing biological agents to treat cardiac arrhythmias.
Contact
➤ LOCATION
Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Blalock-Thomas-Taussig Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
680 North Wolfe Street.
Baltimore, MD 21205
☎ CONTACT
hcho21@jh.edu
(410) 955-5438
Areas of Research
Congenital heart disease
human pluripotent stem cell engineering
cardiac conduction defects
Somatic cell reprogramming
small and large animal models of bradycardia
biological pacemakers
“A single gene can convert cardiac muscle to pacemaker tissue.”
