Farah Sheikh

Professor of Medicine-UCSD-Molecular cardiologist-Entrepreneur- Uncovering new therapeutic targets for genetic based cardiac diseases #ARVC Tweets are my own.

[Farah Sheikh @FarahSheikhLab]

📣🎉 Exciting news! Our lab’s new paper in #CirculationHeartFailure reports a gene therapy for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Restoring connexin-43 improves electrical & mechanical coupling, rescues disease & extends survival across severe ACM genotypes.
https://t.co/Hd72GDLRJW

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I’m honored to keynote @UOHIResearch Research Day and share our bench-to-bedside work toward therapies for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. #ARVC #HeartResearch 🧬🫀

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Research Day is only a few days away!

We’re thrilled to welcome our keynote, Dr. Farah Sheikh, as she takes us from bench to bedside in developing therapies for genetic heart disease. 🥼🔬

Don’t miss it- you can watch online or in-person!

Register here:https://t.co/nc92wg294l

[Farah Sheikh @FarahSheikhLab]

@kallikourdis Thank you so much!!

[Farah Sheikh @FarahSheikhLab]

📣🎉 Exciting news! Our lab’s new paper in #CirculationHeartFailure reports a gene therapy for arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Restoring connexin-43 improves electrical & mechanical coupling, rescues disease & extends survival across severe ACM genotypes.
https://t.co/Hd72GDLRJW

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@GuonHuang Thank you so much!

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@ProtonotariosA Thank you so much!

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@PilarAlcaidePhD @umiamimedicine @univmiami @SylvesterCancer @TuftsMedSchool @TuftsUniversity Congrats Pilar!!! So well deserved my friend!

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@SDPrabhuMD @naliphd @CBallantyneMD @SeragHashem @BCMDeptMedicine Congrats Na!!! Well deserved!! 🎉

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[Farah Sheikh @FarahSheikhLab]

@MarbanLab @SmidtHeart @UCSD @SumeetSChugh @EugenioCingolan @rrogerslab @TheIbrahimLab Thank you @MarbanLab for the kind words & hospitality! Grateful for the chance to share our team’s work on #ARVC and the journey toward PKP2-targeted AAV gene therapy. Appreciate the opportunity to meet & discuss with the wonderful faculty @SmidtHeart!

[Farah Sheikh @FarahSheikhLab]

@PilarAlcaidePhD @ishr2025 @TuftsMedSchool @TuftsUniversity @ASIPath @WomeninPath Absolutely outstanding & well deserved, Pilar!! I echo the unstoppable!!! 🎉

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@PilarAlcaidePhD @FASEBorg @ASIPath @MariaAntoniaZ97 @SashaSmolgovsky @TuftsMedSchool @TuftsUniversity Congratulations my friend! So well deserved!

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@EzzeddineMD 🙏!

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📢 New publication on AAVrh10-based plakophilin-2 gene therapy, showcasing exciting preclinical data supporting the recent encouraging LX2020 Phase 1/2 trial results in ARVC patients. Thanks to Sheikh lab team & LEXEO Therapeutics! #ARVC #GeneTherapy #PKP2 https://t.co/nEB3VLhtlA

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@PilarAlcaidePhD 🙏!

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@CatMak23 🙏!