Research Interests:
Developmental biology, pediatric cardiology, congenital heart defects, organogenesis, human genetics, stem cells, cardiac repair
Summary:
Dr. Srivastava’s work focuses on understanding cardiac development by elucidating the molecular events regulating early and late developmental decisions that instruct progenitor cells to adopt a cardiac cell fate and subsequently fashion a functioning heart. This foundation has been used to discover the genetic basis for some congenital heart malformations.