Leveraging genomics and patient-derived pluripotent stem cells to identify the cause of unexplained sudden death in infants and children

Andrew Landstrom is a pediatric cardiologist physician-scientist who explores the genetic and molecular mechanisms of sudden cardiac death in infants, children, and young adults. He completed an MD and PhD at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine where he explored the genetic causes of cardiomyopathies and heritable arrhythmias. He completed pediatrics residency, pediatric cardiology fellowship, and an advanced fellowship in pediatric electrophysiology at Texas Children's Hospital at Baylor College of Medicine. There, he also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in cell and molecular physiology. He subsequently joined Duke's Department of Pediatrics as a cardiologist specializing in the care of children and families with heritable arrhythmias and sudden-death syndromes. He also specializes in identifying the cause of unexplained sudden death in the young and identifying at-risk family members after a death in the family. His lab identifies novel genetic loci associated with arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy development and determines molecular mechanisms of disease development.