Marban

By David March
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Eduardo Marban, chief of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins, has won the prestigious Gill Heart Institute Award for his contributions to understanding the scientific basis of cardiac arrhythmias, a major cause of death and illness worldwide. The annual award, presented to Marban Oct. 13 at a ceremony at the University of Kentucky's Linda and Jack Gill Heart Institute, recognizes U.S. researchers in the prime of their careers and comes with a $20,000 cash prize.

"This is a tremendous honor," said Marban, the Michel Mirowski, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine and director of its Reynolds Center and Institute of Molecular Cardiobiology. "The Gill Award has been received by the most prominent leaders in American cardiology, and I feel privileged to be recognized in this manner."

At Johns Hopkins' Heart Institute, Marban's research has focused on treatments for cardiac rhythm disturbances and the weakened pumping that mark heart failure. His lab also has advanced gene therapy for arrhythmia and drug treatments for heart disease and stroke. Marban will soon lead a national research initiative at Hopkins to explore the uses of adult stem cells for the treatment of heart attack, and in 2006 his team at Hopkins began a major international study to identify the genetic causes of sudden cardiac death.

Marban also is editor in chief of Circulation Research, the world's leading journal of cardiovascular investigation.

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