Arun Padmanabhan

Arun Padmanabhan, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. His clinical expertise lies in general cardiology, with a focus on preventive cardiology, lamin A/C gene (LMNA) associated cardiomyopathies, and right heart disease in athletes. His research investigates gene-regulatory and epigenetic pathways governing cardiac development and cell state transitions in heart failure.

Dr. Padmanabhan holds a PhD in Cell & Developmental Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MD from the same institution. He completed a Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at UCSF and an Internal Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, following an A.B. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from Washington University in St. Louis.

His research spans molecular mechanisms of congenital heart defects, epigenetic regulation in heart failure, and transcriptomic profiling of cardiac tissue. Recent work includes studies on chromatin remodeling in cardiac fibrosis and CRISPR-based screens for cardiomyocyte differentiation regulators. He collaborates widely, with papers in Nature, Circulation, and Science.

No specific scientific awards or grants are listed in the provided information. His work involves interdisciplinary teams in stem cell biology, genomic analysis, and clinical cardiology, though specific lab affiliations are not detailed here.