Euan Ashley MRCP DPhil
Euan Angus Ashley is Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University, California and Director of the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease.
Born and raised in Scotland, Dr Ashley graduated with 1st class Honors in Physiology and Medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1996. After completing residency at the University of Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital, he joined the PhD program in Molecular Cardiology at the University of Oxford. His work elucidating a role for intra-myocardial nitric oxide in cardiac contractility attracted Young Investigator awards from the UK Medical Research Society, the European Society of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. In 2002, he moved to California to work with Thomas Quertermous, Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Stanford University. Under his mentorship, Dr Ashley designed and applied a genome wide microarray to the discovery of gene networks in atherosclerosis and heart failure. In 2006, he joined the faculty of Stanford and started an independent laboratory funded by a K award from the NHLBI and a National Innovation award from the American Heart Association. In 2009, he was awarded an NIH Director’s New Innovator award. In 2010, he led the team that carried out the first clinical interpretation of a whole human genome, and in 2011, the team extended the approach to a family of four. Dr. Ashley is part of the Myocardial Applied Genomics Network (MAGnet) and currently a member of the leadership group of the American Heart Association’s Council on Functional Genomics, Chair of the Program committee of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and co-Director of the NIH-funded Research Training Program in Myocardial Biology at Stanford.
Father to two young Americans, in his ‘spare’ time, he tries (and usually fails) to understand baseball, plays the saxophone in a jazz quartet, and conducts research on the health benefits of single malt Scotch whisky.
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