Thomas Smith Memorial Lecture

2021 Christine E. Seidman, MD, FAHA
"Molecules, Mutations, and Mechanisms of Heart Failure"

2020 Ronglih Liao, PhD, FAHA
"Unfolding the Misfolded: Molecular Insights Underlying Cardiac Amyloidosis"

2019 Susan F. Steinberg, MD, FAHA
"The Cardiac Beta1-Adrenergic Receptor: N-Tertaining a New Signaling Paradigm"

2018 Joshua M. Hare, MD, FAHA
"Nitric Oxide Signaling and Cardiac Injury and Regeneration"

2017 Roger J. Hajjar, MD
"Gene Therapy & Genome Editing for Acquired & Inherited Cardiomyopathies"

2016 Yibin Wang, PhD, FAHA
"Amending The Broken Heart: Genes, Genomics And Beyond"

2015 Stefanie Dimmeler PhD, FAHA
"Regulatory RNAs in cardiovascular disease"

2014 Junichi Sadoshima MD, PhD
"Regulation of myocardial growth and death by the Hippo signaling pathway"

2013 Steven Houser, PhD, FAHA
"Calcium: Nodal Regulator of Contractility and Hypertrophy in Cardiac Myocytes"

2012 Peipei Ping, PhD, FAHA
"Dancing in the Heart of Organellar Proteomes"

2011 Gerald W. Dorn III, MD, FAHA
"Decoding the Cardiac Message"

2010 Paul Simpson, MD, FAHA
"Rethinking Cardiac Hypertrophy"

2009 Walter Koch, PhD, FAHA
"GRK2 Inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Heart Failure"

2008 Jeffrey Molkentin, PhD
"PKC? as a Novel Therapeutic Target for Treating Heart Failure"

2007 Douglas Losordo, MD, FAHA
"Biologic Tissue Repair: Tearing Pages out of Nature's Playbook"

2006 Silvia Priori, MD, PhD
"From a Girl to a Mouse: A Journey in the Rhythm of the Heart"

2005 Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD, FAHA
"Gene- and cell-based therapies for cardiac arrhythmias"

2004 Don Bers, PhD, FAHA
"Interplay of Calcium and Sodium Regulation in Cardiac Myocytes"

2003 Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD
"Seven Membrane-Spanning Receptors and Their Regulation"

2002 Andrew R. Marks, MD, FAHA
"A Guide for the Perplexed – Toward a Molecular Understanding of Heart Failure"

2001 Seigo Izumo, MD
"Heart Development and Congenital Heart Disease: From the Flies to Humans"

2000 Eric N. Olson, PhD
"Transcriptional Control of Cardiac Form and Function"

1999 Kurt G. Beam, PhD
"Cardiac excitation - contraction coupling: a hair-trigger for calcium release?"

1998 Eva J. Neer, MD
"Studies of Heterotrimeric G Proteins: Lessons from Modified Molecules and Modified Mice"

1997 Arthur Mu-En Lee, MD, PhD
"Vascular Smooth Muscle Differentiation"