Vassilios Bezzerides

Vassilios Bezzerides is originally from Los Alamos, New Mexico and obtained undergraduate degrees in both physics and biochemistry from the University of Washington in Seattle. After coming to Boston, he completed the Medical Scientist Train program (MSTP) at both Harvard Medical School and MIT. Working in the laboratory of Dr. David Clapham, Dr. Bezzerides identified a novel mechanism of ion channel regulation using evanescent field microscopy. After finishing his pediatric residency and fellowships in cardiology and electrophysiology, he joined the cardiology staff at Boston Children’s Hospital. He completed postdoctoral work with both Dr. Anthony Rosenzweig and Dr. William Pu. His lab is focused on using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to accurately model human cardiovascular diseases for improved mechanistic understanding, clinical outcome prediction and novel therapeutic development including gene therapy. Currently the lab has projects on rapid model development and variant testing, target gene and drug therapy for inherited cardiovascular diseases, and fundamental mechanisms of arrhythmia in cardiomyopathies.