Euan Ashley MRCP DPhil
Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Deputy Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Director, Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease
Co-Director, Training Program in Myocardial Biology
Born and raised in Scotland, Dr Ashley graduated with 1st class Honors in Physiology and Medicine from the University of Glasgow. He completed residency and a PhD in molecular cardiology at the University of Oxford then moved to Stanford University where he was the Donald W. Reynolds Fellow. He trained in cardiology and advanced heart failure joining the faculty in 2006. His laboratory is focused on the application of genomics to medicine. In 2010, he led the team that carried out the first clinical interpretation of a human genome, a finding published in the Lancet and reported in over 300 news stories worldwide. He was the recipient of a National Innovation Award from the American Heart Association and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award as well as many young investigator awards. He is a principal investigator of the Myocardial Applied Genomics Network (MAGnet), a member of the leadership group of the American Heart Association’s Council on Functional Genomics, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health. He is a peer reviewer for the NIH and the AHA as well as journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. He is co-founder of Personalis, Inc.
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.Stanford Faculty and Researcher Profile
