Arun Padmanabhan, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Cardiology

CLINICAL INTERESTS: Dr. Padmanabhan is a cardiologist specializing in general cardiology. His specific interests include preventive cardiology, lamin A/C gene (LMNA) associated cardiomyopathies, and right heart disease in athletes.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Padmanabhan’s research focuses on understanding the gene-regulatory and epigenetic pathways that govern cell fate decisions during early cardiac development and cell state transitions in the pathophysiology of heart failure.

Faculty Type
Core CVRI Faculty

Publications

Targeting RUNX1 in Macrophages Facilitates Cardiac Recovery.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Amrute JM, Zhu A, Pai YL, Hector-Greene M, An Y, Kim KR, Sheth MU, Padmanabhan A, Lee CY, Yamawaki T, Sicklinger F, Hartman N, Bredemeyer A, Lee CJM, Xu V, Bell L, Harmon T, Shin H, Parvathaneni A, Liu L, Dutta AK, Pruitt D, Barreda J, Chen J, Shroff UN, Nadadur R, Nigro J, Weinheimer C, Kovacs A, Cui J, Wang C, Li CM, Kreisel D, Liu Y, Foo RS, Schneider RK, Engreitz JM, Mann DL, Rulifson I, Jackson S, Ason B, Kramann R, Drakos SG, Leuschner F, Alexanian M, Lavine KJ

Molecular convergence of risk variants for congenital heart defects leveraging a regulatory map of the human fetal heart.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Ma XR, Conley SD, Kosicki M, Bredikhin D, Cui R, Tran S, Sheth MU, Qiu WL, Chen S, Kundu S, Kang HY, Amgalan D, Munger CJ, Duan L, Dang K, Rubio OM, Kany S, Zamirpour S, DePaolo J, Padmanabhan A, Birth Defects Research Laboratory, Olgin J, Damrauer S, Andersson R, Gu M, Priest JR, Quertermous T, Qiu X, Rabinovitch M, Visel A, Pennacchio L, Kundaje A, Glass IA, Gifford CA, Pirruccello JP, Goodyer WR, Engreitz JM

Chromatin remodelling drives immune cell-fibroblast communication in heart failure.

Nature

Alexanian M, Padmanabhan A, Nishino T, Travers JG, Ye L, Pelonero A, Lee CY, Sadagopan N, Huang Y, Auclair K, Zhu A, An Y, Ekstrand CA, Martinez C, Teran BG, Flanigan WR, Kim CK, Lumbao-Conradson K, Gardner Z, Li L, Costa MW, Jain R, Charo I, Combes AJ, Haldar SM, Pollard KS, Vagnozzi RJ, McKinsey TA, Przytycki PF, Srivastava D

A transcriptional switch governs fibroblast activation in heart disease.

Nature

Alexanian M, Przytycki PF, Micheletti R, Padmanabhan A, Ye L, Travers JG, Gonzalez-Teran B, Silva AC, Duan Q, Ranade SS, Felix F, Linares-Saldana R, Li L, Lee CY, Sadagopan N, Pelonero A, Huang Y, Andreoletti G, Jain R, McKinsey TA, Rosenfeld MG, Gifford CA, Pollard KS, Haldar SM, Srivastava D

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