Dr. Mingfu Wu is an associate professor at the University of Houston. He completed his Ph.D. in biology at Kansas State University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University (2006–2007) and the UT Southwestern Medical Center (2007–2010). He obtained the AHA SDG award (2013–2017) and the R01 NIH Young Investigator Award (2014–2019). His lab is using genetic, developmental, and cellular tools to study the etiologies of congenital heart defects and left ventricular noncompaction.