Top US Cardiologist Honoured For Healing Damaged Hearts

Dr. Eduardo Marbán, a pioneering American cardiologist, will receive the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH) Distinguished Lecture and Prize Award. In June 2009, Dr. Marbán and his team at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles completed the world's first procedure in which a patient's own heart tissue was used to grow stem cells.