Roger J. Hajjar, MD , Celladon Co-Founder
Dr. Roger J. Hajjar is the Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Previously, he was the Director of the Cardiovascular Laboratory of Integrative Physiology and Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hajjar has an active basic science laboratory and concentrates his research efforts on understanding the basic mechanisms of heart failure. He has developed gene transfer methods and techniques targeting the heart as a therapeutic modality to improve contractility in heart failure. Dr. Hajjar's laboratory focuses on targeting signaling pathways in cardiac myocytes to improve contractile function in heart failure and to block signaling pathways in hypertrophy and apoptosis.

Celladon’s Industry Recognized Scientific Advisors also include:

• Fadi G. Akar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Cardiology; Cardiovascular Research Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Tamas Bartfai, PhD, Former VP of Research at Roche; Director, Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Center, The Scripps Research Institute; Founder of Kemia
• Russell Dahl, PhD, Manager, Medicinal Chemistry and in-vitro Pharmacology, Burnham Institute
• Anthony DeMaria, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
• Howard Dittrich, MD, Cardiologist at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
• Pauline E. McEwan, PhD. Small Molecule Discovery, Director, IND Consulting Washington, DC
• Edward Roberts, PhD, Former VP of Medicinal Chemistry at Roche; Professor of Translational Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
• Daniel Salomon, MD, Associate Professor, The Scripps Research Institute
• David D. Thomas, PhD, Dietrich Professor of Structural Biology and Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota
• Yifan Zhai, M.D., PhD, Consultant, Small Molecules and Microbiology