Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI)

Robert M. Blanton, Jr., MD

Accepting New Patients

Title(s): Cardiologist; Investigator and Co-Director, Mouse Physiology Core Laboratory, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute; Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Department(s): Medicine, CardioVascular Center, Cardiology
Appt. Phone: 617-636-4322
Fax #: 617-636-1444

General cardiology, preventive cardiology

Howard H. Chen, PhD

Title(s): Investigator, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Department(s): Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
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Molecular imaging of cell death and survival, cell energetics, fibrosis and inflammation, molecular mechanisms of cardiac pathophysiology, nanotechnology and novel therapeutics

Michael T. Chin, MD, PhD

Title(s): Research Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) Center and Research Institute, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI), CardioVascular Center (CVC), and the Division of Cardiology; Professor, TUSM
Department(s): Medicine, CardioVascular Center, Cardiology
Appt. Phone: 617-636-8066
Fax #: 617-636-7175

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular disease

Isabelle Draper, PhD

Title(s): Principal Investigator, Molecular Cardiology Institute; Assistant Professor, Tufts School of Medicine
Department(s): Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Molecular Pharmacology Research Center
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Biochemistry

Jennifer DuPont, PhD

Title(s): Principal Investigator, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute; Director, Vascular Function Core; Assistant Professor, Tufts School of Medicine
Department(s): Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI)
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Sex differences in vascular ageing, Vascular dysfunction in postmenopausal women

Jonas B. Galper, MD, PhD

Accepting New Patients

Title(s): Director, Laboratory of Lipid Metabolism and CardioVascular Signaling, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute; Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Department(s): Medicine, CardioVascular Center, Cardiology
Appt. Phone: 617-636-4322
Fax #: 617-636-4833

General cardiology, molecular mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases

Miranda Good, PhD

Title(s): Principal Investigator, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Department(s): Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI)
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Gordon S. Huggins, MD

Accepting New Patients

Virtual Appointments Available

Title(s): Director, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI) Center for Translational Pharmacology and Genomics; Cardiologist; Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Department(s): Medicine, CardioVascular Center, Cardiology, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
Appt. Phone: 617-636-4322
Fax #: 617-636-5999

Genetic mechanisms in cardiovascular cells including analysis of human trains and disease as a discovery platform biological studies, genetic susceptibility to heart and vascular diseases and molecular regulation of gene expression in cardiomyocytes and cardiomyocyte precursor cells.

Basak Icli, MS, PhD

Title(s): Principal Investigator, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI); Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Department(s): Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI)
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Angiogenesis, Diabetic Wound Healing, Type 2 Diabetes/Obesity, Endothelial Cell Biology, Vascular Biology, Non-coding RNAs, Cardiovascular Disease

Iris Z. Jaffe, MD, PhD

Title(s): Executive Director, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI); Cardiologist; Director, Vascular Biology Research Center within the MCRI; Elisa Kent Mendelsohn Professor of Molecular Cardiology, TUSM
Department(s): Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI), Medicine, CardioVascular Center, Cardiology
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General cardiology, resistant hypertension

Navin K. Kapur, MD, FAHA, FACC, FSCAI

Accepting New Patients

Title(s): Executive Director, The CardioVascular Center for Research and Innovation (CVCRI); Director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Program; Director, Interventional Research Laboratories; Director of Cardiac Biology Research Center, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI); Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Department(s): Medicine, CardioVascular Center, Cardiology
Appt. Phone: 617-636-8252
Fax #: 617-636-5913

Interventional cardiology, advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support

Lakshmi Pulakat, PhD, M.Phil., M. Sc.

Title(s): Principal Investigator, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI); Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine
Department(s): Molecular Cardiology Research Institute
Appt. Phone: (617) 636 9005
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Diabetes and Cardiovascular Medicine Research