Guillermo Garcia-Cardena

Guillermo is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Laboratory for Systems Biology at the Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. His expertise in the endothelial biology of cardiovascular diseases is widely recognized as this has been a focus of his laboratory for the past fifteen years.

He received a PhD from Yale University working with Prof. William Sessa on the molecular regulation of nitric oxide production in vascular endothelium. His postdoctoral research with Michael Gimbrone Jr. at Harvard Medical School studied endothelial cell gene expression, hemodynamics, and atherogenesis. He authored 78 scientific publications primarily focused on vascular biology.