Cardiology

Victor J. Dzau, MD

Professor of Medicine
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Professor of Pathology
Campus mail Victor J. Dzau Laboratory GSRBII # Room 4015, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 668-5448
Email address victor.dzau@duke.edu

Education and Training

  • Fellow in Cardiology, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1979 - 1980
  • Chief Resident Physician, Children's Hospital Boston, 1978 - 1979
  • Fellow in Cardiology, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1976 - 1978
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physiology, Harvard University , 1976 - 1978
  • Senior Assistant Resident, Children's Hospital Boston, 1975 - 1976
  • Clincal Fellow, Medicine, Harvard University , 1974 - 1976
  • Assistant Resident, Children's Hospital Boston, 1974 - 1975
  • Resident in Pathology, Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston, 1973 - 1974
  • Intern in Medicine, Medicine, Cornell University, 1972 - 1973
  • M.D., McGill University (Canada), 1972

Grants

Publications

Dzau, Victor J., Celynne A. Balatbat, and Anaeze C. Offodile. “Closing the global vaccine equity gap: equitably distributed manufacturing.” Lancet 399, no. 10339 (May 21, 2022): 1924–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00793-0.

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35533706
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Dzau, Victor J., William F. Ellaissi, K Ranga Rama Krishnan, and Celynne A. Balatbat. “How Academic Health Systems Can Be Ready for the Next Pandemic.” Acad Med 97, no. 4 (April 1, 2022): 479–83. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000004572.

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34966030
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Utz, Paul J., Mukesh K. Jain, Vivian G. Cheung, Brian K. Kobilka, Robert Lefkowitz, Tadataka Yamada, and Victor J. Dzau. “Translating science to medicine: The case for physician-scientists.” Sci Transl Med 14, no. 632 (February 16, 2022): eabg7852. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abg7852.

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35171650
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Dzau, Victor J., Celynne A. Balatbat, and William F. Ellaissi. “Revisiting academic health sciences systems a decade later: discovery to health to population to society.” Lancet 398, no. 10318 (December 18, 2021): 2300–2304. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01752-9.

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34717828
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Zhang, Jianyi, Roberto Bolli, Daniel J. Garry, Eduardo Marbán, Philippe Menasché, Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Timothy J. Kamp, Joseph C. Wu, and Victor J. Dzau. “Basic and Translational Research in Cardiac Repair and Regeneration: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.” J Am Coll Cardiol 78, no. 21 (November 23, 2021): 2092–2105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.09.019.

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34794691
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Gomez, José A., Alan Payne, Richard E. Pratt, Conrad P. Hodgkinson, and Victor J. Dzau. “A role for Sfrp2 in cardiomyogenesis in vivo.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118, no. 33 (August 17, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103676118.

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34380738
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Sun, Hualing, Conrad P. Hodgkinson, Richard E. Pratt, and Victor J. Dzau. “CRISPR/Cas9 Mediated Deletion of the Angiotensinogen Gene Reduces Hypertension: A Potential for Cure?” Hypertension 77, no. 6 (June 2021): 1990–2000. https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.16870.

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33813849
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Lurie, Nicole, Gerald T. Keusch, and Victor J. Dzau. “Urgent lessons from COVID 19: why the world needs a standing, coordinated system and sustainable financing for global research and development.” Lancet 397, no. 10280 (March 27, 2021): 1229–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00503-1.

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33711296
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