The Institute for Heart Regeneration and Therapeutics

The Pediatric Institute for Heart Regeneration and Therapeutics (I-HRT) is a research institute within the Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, directed by Bernhard Kühn, MD. This institute seeks to improve health by repairing hearts through guided regeneration. The institute strives to develop a scientific basis for heart regeneration through world-class research and training. The institute incorporates basic, translational, and clinical research. I-HRT’s goal is to translate the strategy of stimulating heart muscle cell regeneration into a therapy.

Affiliated Faculty

Essential Publications

Elimination of 15N-thymidine after oral administration in human infants 

Niyatie Ammanamanchi, Jessie Yester, Anita P. Bargaje, Dawn Thomas, Kathryn C. Little, Shannon Janzef, Kimberly Francis, Jacqueline Weinberg, Jennifer Johnson, Thomas Seery, Tyler Hutchinson Harris, Bryan J. Funari, Kirsten Rose-Felker, Matthew Zinn, Susan A. Miller, Shawn C. West, Brian Feingold, Hairu Zhou, Matthew L. Steinhauser, Timothy Csernica, Robert Michener, Bernhard Kühn

PLoS One

2024, Jan 25

Changes in nuclear pore numbers control nuclear import and stress response of mouse hearts

Han L, Mich-Basso JD, Li Y, Ammanamanchi N, Xu J, Bargaje A, Liu H, Wu L, Jeong JH, Franks J, Stolz DB, Wu YL, Rajasundaram D, Liu Y, Kühn B

Developmental Cell

2022 Oct 24

Design and rationale of a clinical trial to increase cardiomyocyte division in infants with tetralogy of Fallot

El Khoudary SR, Fabio A, Yester JW, Steinhauser ML, Christopher AB,  Gyngard F, Adams PA, Morell VO, Viegas M, DaSilva J, Da Fonseca Da Silva L, Castro-Medina M, McCormick A, Reyes-Múgica M, BarlasM , Liu H, Thomas D, Ammanamanchi A, Sada R, Cuda M, Hartigan E, Groscost DK, Kühn B

International Journal of Cardiology

2021 Sep 15

Use of stable isotope-tagged thymidine and multi-isotope imaging mass spectrometry (MIMS) for quantification of human cardiomyocyte division.

Jessie W. Yester, Honghai Liu, Frank Gyngard, Niyatie Ammanamanchi, Katherine C. Little, Dawn Thomas, Mara L.G. Sullivan, Sean Lal, Matthew L. Steinhauser, and Bernhard Kühn. 

Nature Protocols

2021, Feb 24

Cardiac Regeneration: Methods and Protocols 

(ed. Kühn B, Poss K).

Lamin B2 levels regulate polyploidization of cardiomyocyte nuclei and myocardial regeneration.  

Han L, Choudhury S, Mich-Basso JD, Ammanamanchi N, Ganapathy G, Suresh S, Khaladkar M, Singh J, Maehr R, Zuppo DA, Kim J, Eberwine JH, Wyman SK, Wu Y & Kühn B.

Developmental Cell 

2020 Apr 06

Control of cytokinesis by β-adrenergic receptors indicates an approach for regulating cardiomyocyte endowment

Honghai Liu, Cheng-Hai Zhang, Niyatie Ammanamanchι, Sangita Suresh, Christopher Lewarchik, Krithika Rao, Gerrida M. Uys, Lu Han, Maryline Abrial, Dean Yimlamai, Balakrishnan Ganapathy, Christelle Guillermier, Nathalie Chen, Mugdha Khaladkar, Jennifer Spaethling, James H. Eberwine, Junhyong Kim, Stuart Walsh, Sangita Choudhury, Kathryn Little, Kimberly Francis, Mahesh Sharma, Melita Viegas, Abha Bais, Dennis Kostka, Jun Ding, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Yijen Wu, Vijay Yechoor, Mousumi Moulik, Jennifer Johnson, Jacqueline Weinberg, Miguel Reyes-Múgica, Matthew L. Steinhauser, Bernhard Kühn.

Science Translational Medicine

2019, Oct 09


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