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Precision Generation of Cardiac Cells from Patient Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)

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Mingtao Zhao

Mingtao Zhao

Nationwide Children’s Hospital/The Ohio State University

Dr. Zhao is a Principal Investigator in the Center for Cardiovascular Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio. He earned his PhD degree under the mentorship of Dr. Randall Prather at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. Subsequently, Dr. Zhao completed his postdoc fellowship with Drs. Joseph Wu and Michael Snyder at Stanford University School of Medicine, followed by an instructor position at Stanford Cardiovascular Institute in 2018. In August 2019, he moved to Columbus to set up his independent laboratory in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Zhao’s research laboratory aims to decipher the molecular mechanisms controlling heart development and discover novel treatment for congenital heart disease using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).

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Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) including congenital heart disease have been the #1 cause of death, representing 1/3 of all deaths in the world, and more people die from CVDs than from any other diseases, according to the recent WHO report. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have revolutionized current cardiovascular medicine and provided patient-derived and clinically relevant cardiac cells for disease modeling, cell transplantation therapy, and preclinical drug testing. Patient iPSCs can give rise to cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, cardiac fibroblasts, and smooth muscle cells in the heart; thus providing enormous cell resources for studying complex genetics and gene-environment interactions simultaneously in multiple cell types. Coupled with state-of-the-art CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing and next-generation genome sequencing technologies, human iPSCs have been emerging as forerunners to transform our current understanding of cardiovascular development and diseases, and to integrate future precision medicine. In this Method Collection, we will present the current protocols to precisely and efficiently generate cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, and smooth muscle cells in the heart from human iPSCs using chemically defined approaches. The goal of this collection is to provide standardized protocols for robust generation and characterization of cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, cardiac fibroblasts, and smooth muscle cells from human iPSCs in order to advance the iPSC technology in cardiovascular precision medicine. Finally, we highlight a 3D cardiac organoid differentiation method to generate beating mini-heart in the dish, which would represent the next phase of iPSC differentiation technology for cardiovascular medicine.

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Generation and Expansion of Human Cardiomyocytes from Patient Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
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Generation and Expansion of Human Cardiomyocytes from Patient Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells

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2021

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Abstracts

Micropatterning of human pluripotent stem cell colonies for cardiomyocyte differentiation

Huaxiao Yang1,

Oscar Abilez*2,

Kitchener Wilson2

1University of North Texas,

2Stanford University