3 November 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Members of Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease (JCDD, ISSN: 2308-3425) is pleased to announce the following 21 researchers who have been added to our 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board. Please join us in congratulating them on becoming part of the journal’s community. 

Name: Dr. Denise Cristiana Faro
Affiliation: Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Research interests: clinical cardiology; cardiomyopathies; heart failure; rare diseases; speckle tracking; echocardiography; arrhythmic risk; amyloidosis; fabry disease; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Name: Dr. Miquel Sendra
Affiliation: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
Research interests: cardiovascular development; live imaging; data analysis; single-cell omics

Name: Dr. Carmine Izzo
Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, University of Salerno, 84081 Salerno, Italy
Research interests: clinical and translational cardiology; cardiovascular imaging

Name: Dr. Bisaccia Giandomenico
Affiliation: Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guys’ & St Thomas, UK NHS Trust, London, UK
Research interests: cardiovascular magnetic resonance; coronary artery disease; meta-analysis; health economics

Name: Dr. Savine Minderhoud
Affiliation: Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Research interests: congenital heart disease; imaging; biomechanics

Name: Dr. Kevin S. Tang
Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Research interests: internal medicine; cardiology; medical education

Name: Dr. Pamela Swiatlowska
Affiliation: National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
Research interests: cardiovascular science; mechanobiology; atherosclerosis; heart failure; nuclear mechanobiology

Name: Dr. Alexis Stamatikos
Affiliation: Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences Department, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
Research interests: ABCA1; ABCG1; miR-33a; SR-BI; cholesterol efflux; reverse cholesterol transport; atherosclerosis; vascular inflammation; exosomes; extracellular vesicles

Name: Dr. Peiheng Gan
Affiliation: Aging + Cardiovascular Discovery Center (ACDC), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Research interests: RNA binding protein; RNA splicing; transcriptional condensates; cardiovascular development; cell fate regulation

Name: Dr. Giulia Laterra
Affiliation: Cardiology Unit Umberto I Enna, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Università degli Studi di Enna “Kore”, Contrada Ferrante, 94100 Enna, Italy
Research interests: cardiology; interventional cardiology; LAAC; coronary artery disease; TAVR

Name: Dr. Teruhiko Imamura
Affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama 9300194, Japan
Research interests: heart failure; hemodynamics; cardiology; medication

Name: Dr. Hua Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Research interests: cardiovascular; cardiac hypertrophy; ion channels; hypertension; autonomic nervous system

Name: Dr. Eliza Russu
Affiliation: Department of Vascular Surgery, George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures, 540139 Targu Mures, Romania
Research interests: arteriovenous fistula; AVF; vascular access; arteriovenous graft; AVG; dialysis; vascular surgery; biomechanics; bioengineering; vascular graft; biological graft; translational research; chronic kidney disease; ESKD

Name: Dr. Guillaume Fahrni
Affiliation: Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Research interests: cardiovascular imaging; spectral photon-counting ct (SPCCT); artificial intelligence in radiology; emergency radiology

Name: Dr. Sayantap Datta
Affiliation: Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, 4349 Martin Luther King Blvd., Houston, TX 77204, USA
Research interests: renal pharmacology; cancer pharmacology; developmental biology

Name: Dr. Matteo Marro
Affiliation: Department of Surgical Sciences, City of Health and Science University Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Research interests: heart transplant; lung transplant; NeoChord; minimally invasive surgery; TAVR; graft preservation

Name: Dr. Marcello Andrea Tipaldi
Affiliation: Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant'Andrea Hospital of Rome, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00189 Rome, Italy
Research interests: aneurysms; vascular interventional radiology; lower limb revascularization; biopsy; lung tumor; interventional oncology

Name: Dr. Marisa Varrenti
Affiliation: De Gasperis Cardio Center, Niguarda Hospital, 20162 Milan, Italy
Research interests: cardiomyopathies; arrhythmic risk; sudden death

Name: Dr. Xiao Liu
Affiliation: Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
Research interests: ubiquitin; risk factor; atrial fibrillation; metabolism

Name: Dr. Gianluca Pagnoni
Affiliation: Cardiology Unit—Emergency Department (UTIC), Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, 29121 Piacenza, Italy
Research interests: pulmonary hypertension; heart function; cardiac imaging; interventional cardiology; cardiac arrest; risk stratification

Name: Dr. James Emerson
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Research interests: sex differences; miRNAs; arrhythmias; tissue engineering

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