Professor Joseph Wu

Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD is Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology at the Stanford School of Medicine. His lab works on following areas: (i) understand basic cardiovascular disease mechanisms, (ii) accelerate drug discovery and screening using AI/ML, (iii) develop “clinical trial in a dish” concept, and (iv) implement precision cardiovascular medicine for prevention and treatment of patients. Dr. Wu has published >500 manuscripts with H-index of 125 on Google scholar. He is listed as top 0.1% of highly cited researchers by Web of Science for past 5 years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). Dr. Wu is an elected member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Association of Physicians (AAP), National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and National Academy of Medicine (NAM). He serves as President of the American Heart Association (July 2023 - June 2024).