Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Scripps Green hospital, USA
Biography
David Rubenson is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in Scripps Green hospital, USA. He identified many of the factors that are responsible for inducing and forming the heart, including the discovery that Wnt inhibition is a critical step in cardiogenesis that provided the conceptual basis and reagents for the large-scale production of cardiovascular tissues from pluripotent stem cells.