Jessica Garbern

Jessica Garbern, MD, PhD, is an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Department of Cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her research focuses on translating stem cell-based therapies for cardiac regeneration, specifically targeting cardiomyocyte maturation, immune system evasion strategies, and cardiac tissue engineering. She completed her MD/PhD in bioengineering at the University of Washington, followed by clinical training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital.

• Education:
• Undergraduate: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Graduate/Medical School: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Residencies: Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP), Boston, MA
• Fellowship: Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
• Research Highlights:
• Investigates maturation of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
• Develops methods to minimize immune detection of stem cell therapies
• Explores cardiac tissue engineering using nanoelectronics
• Publications:
• Recent work spans P53-driven maturation pathways, adductomic profiling of DNA modifications, and endothelial cell roles in cardiac microtissues