Dr. Eduardo Marbán is the Michel Mirowski Professor in Cardiology and chief of cardiology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of Molecular Cardiobiology, an interdepartmental program designed to foster fundamental research into the workings of the heart, and director of the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at Johns Hopkins, a $24 million, four-year program focused on identifying novel risk factors for sudden cardiac death. Marbán’s professional career is dedicated to understanding disorders of cardiac rhythm and pump function, and to developing novel treatments based on fundamental insights into mechanism. In the course of his research, he has made several discoveries that have translated into patents (five issued, six pending). These are in the fields of gene therapy, particularly for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, and drug treatments for heart disease and stroke. One of his inventions has already led to the testing of a novel treatment for heart failure in human clinical trials. A recipient of numerous awards and honors – including the Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association (AHA), the Research Achievement Award of the International Society for Heart Research, and the Distinguished Service Award of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences of the AHA – Marbán also serves as editor in chief of Circulation Research, the world’s leading journal of cardiovascular investigation. After joining Hopkins for his medical internship and residency, Marbán stayed to complete his fellowship in cardiology, eventually becoming a faculty member in 1985. He earned his B.S. in mathematics from Wilkes College in Pennsylvania before attending Yale University School of Medicine in a combined M.D./Ph.D. program. | 
