Dr. Peter Ganz is the Director of the Center of Excellence in Vascular Research and a Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Ganz has been a pioneer in two areas of cardiovascular research, human endothelial biology and large-scale proteomics. Dr. Ganz is currently engaged in large-scale proteomic studies to construct prognostic models of diseases, to understand the biological pathways of diseases and mechanisms by which drug therapies act and to discover new drug targets. Dr. Ganz’s publications have been cited over 77,000 times and he has an H-index of 105. Dr. Ganz received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, completed his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and cardiovascular fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He spent 25 years directing cardiovascular research in the cardiac catheterization laboratories at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, prior to arriving to UCSF in 2008.