Dr. Haodi Wu is an Assistant Professor at the Vascular Medicine Institute, Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his PhD from Peking University, where he studied the regulatory role of miRNA and JPH2 in the morphological and functional remodeling of heart failure. After graduation, he continued his research in Dr. Joseph Wu’s Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, to understand the pathogenesis of familial cardiomyopathies. During his postdoctoral training, he was funded by multiple mechanisms, including an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship, NIH PCBC Jump Start Award, and NIH K99 Pathway to Independence Award. His interests include induced pluripotent stem cell models, inherited cardiomyopathies, calcium handling, genome editing, cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac aging, and heart failure.