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ReviewEuropean heart journal2024

Clinical trials in-a-dish for cardiovascular medicine.

Xuekun Wu, Kyle Swanson, Zehra Yildirim, Wenqiang Liu, Ronglih Liao, Joseph C Wu

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Review in European heart journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Biologics for cardiovascular diseases: from bench to bedside.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  9. mRNA medicine for cardiovascular disease.Nature cardiovascular research · 2026
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  11. Interstitial cells and arrhythmia.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2026
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  17. Cardiac fibrosis: from mechanisms and models to medicines.Trends in pharmacological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Xuekun WuStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5429-3126
Kyle SwansonDepartment of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Zehra YildirimStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3132-8984
Wenqiang LiuStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2323-7962
Ronglih LiaoStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Joseph C WuStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6068-8041

Funding

Human iPSCs for Elucidating Intercellular Crosstalk Signaling in Dilated CardiomyopathyR01HL141371 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, WING H., WU, JOSEPH C. · 2018 to 2025
$6.2M
Modeling Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor-Induced Vascular Dysfunction Using Human iPSCsR01HL141851 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI WONG, WING H., WU, JOSEPH C. · 2018 to 2025
$5.7M
Single Cell Sequencing of Human iPSC-CM Subtype Identity and FunctionR01HL145676 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MARK MERCOLA, Joseph C. Wu · 2019 to 2026
$5.1M
High Mechanical Shear Stress-Induced Neutrophil Dysfunction in Mechanically Assisted CirculationR01HL171120 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI Zhongjun Jon Wu · 2024 to 2026
$1.8M
American Heart AssociationKnight-Hennessy ScholarshipNational Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 HL141371, R01 HL141851, R01 HL145676, and R01 HL171120NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL141371NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL141851NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL145676NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL171120Postdoctoral Fellowship 24POST1191267Program Postdoctoral Fellowship T33FT6330Tobacco-Related Disease Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases persist as a global health challenge that requires methodological innovation for effective drug development. Conventional pipelines relying on animal models suffer from high failure rates due to significant interspecies variation between humans and animal models. In response, the recently enacted Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act 2.0 encourages alternative approaches including induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Human iPSCs provide a patient-specific, precise, and screenable platform for drug testing, paving the way for cardiovascular precision medicine. This review discusses milestones in iPSC differentiation and their applications from disease modelling to drug discovery in cardiovascular medicine. It then explores challenges and emerging opportunities for the implementation of 'clinical trials in-a-dish'. Concluding, this review proposes a framework for future clinical trial design with strategic incorporations of iPSC technology, microphysiological systems, clinical pan-omics, and artificial intelligence to improve success rates and advance cardiovascular healthcare.

Indexed as

Cardiovascular DiseasesClinical Trials as TopicInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsDrug DiscoveryHumansPrecision MedicineArtificial intelligenceCardiovascular diseasesClinical genomicsClinical trialsiPSCMicrophysiological systemsOrganoidsPersonalized medicine

Identifiers

PMID39270727
PMCPMC11491156

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