We welcome our newest postdoctoral research fellow, Dr Hiro Matsu, from Japan!

Congratulations to Chin Siang for his oral presentation “Cardiac Remuscularization using 3D Bioprinted Cardiac Patches” at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2017 in Anaheim, California!

We welcome our newest postdoctoral research fellow, Enoch Yeung, MBBS (Cardiac Anesthesiology resident, Hong Kong)!

Congratulations to Isaree for her poster presentation at the 9th Annual Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium (Oct 25, 2017) at the Hilton Baltimore!

ADIPOSE-DERIVED STEM CELLS IMPROVE CARDIAC SPHEROID VIABILITY BY ANGIOGENESIS

Isaree Pitaktong1,2, Chin Siang Ong, MBBS1,3, Huaitao Zhang, BS1, Takuma Fukunishi, MD1, Chen Yu Huang, PhD3,
Cecillia Lui MD1, Narutoshi Hibino, MD, PhD1

1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland;
2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; 3Division of Cardiology,
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

http://www.mscrf.org/content/events/documents/2017Abstractbookfinal.pdf

Congratulations to Dr. Chin Siang Ong and Sarah Chen for their podium presentations at the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society Annual Meeting 2017 in Chicago, IL (Oct 22-23, 2017)!

http://meeting.chss.org/abstracts/2017-program.cgi

A3. Improvement of Electrophysiological and Morphological Characteristics of 3D Bioprinted Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiac Patches by Defined Factors*
Chin Siang Ong^1,2, Takuma Fukunishi¹, Huaitao Zhang¹, Chen Yu Huang², Adriana Blazeski³, Deborah DiSilvestre², Luca Vricella¹, Leslie Tung³, Gordon Tomaselli², Narutoshi Hibino¹*
¹Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, ²Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, ³Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

A5. Designing Customized 3D Printed Models For Surgical Planning in Repair of Congenital Heart Defects
Sarah Chen¹, Juan Garcia¹, Luca Vricella², Narutoshi Hibino^2
1Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, ²Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD