The overall goals of Dr. Neil Chi’s research program are to gain insights into the underlying mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases as well as discover developmental pathways that help create the cardiovascular system. Dr. Chi is most interested in translating these findings for eventual cardiac therapies and early diagnostic tools, including cardiac regenerative cellular repair, gene therapies, and genetic/genomic testing. Toward this end, his laboratory uses a combination of cardiac patient datasets and samples as well as various cellular and animal model systems for their investigations. As a result, he has made seminal contributions in the fields of cardiovascular regeneration, cardiac stem cells, and cardiovascular development.