The Shaw Lab, led by Dr. Robin Shaw at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI), studies the cell biology of heart arrhythmias and heart failure. The lab investigates how cardiac ion channels are formed and delivered to their specific subdomains of the heart muscle cell membrane — including Connexin43 gap junctions at the intercalated disc and L-type calcium channels at T-tubules — and how these processes change in the failing heart, with the goal of developing novel diagnostics and therapeutics for heart failure.
Meet The Shaw Lab Team
Robin M. Shaw, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Daisuke Shimura, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Tara Hitzeman, MPH
Biostatistician
Jen Hunter
Lab Specialist / Lab Manager
Pia Balmaceda, MD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mentorship and Training
The Shaw Lab trains graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, medical students, and undergraduate researchers in the cell biology of heart arrhythmias and heart failure. Lab alumni have gone on to faculty and research positions at the University of Utah, Stanford, UCSF, Virginia Tech, and Cedars-Sinai.
