Science has the potential to make extraordinary leaps when the right people, ideas, and technology come together to solve complex problems. 

We’re disrupting the traditional research space by re-imagining how science is done and funded, with a focus on supporting both projects and people. Through thoughtful and nimble investments of time and resources into the most pressing scientific questions, we develop tailored solutions and encourage bold, relentless scientific exploration toward our goals.

Single Ventricle Heart Disease

Our biomedical research work focuses on a rare form of congenital heart defects called single ventricle heart disease. While this field is in its infancy, with limited knowledge of cause, risk, outcomes, or treatments, we are confident that through coordinated strategic and interdisciplinary work, dynamic teaming, and flexible funding, we can illuminate a functional cure for patients and their families.

Research Roadmap

Developed collaboratively with scientific leaders in the community, the single ventricle Research Roadmap is a living ten-year plan toward comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and programmatic solutions to understand and overcome single ventricle heart disease.

Comprised of five significant knowledge and infrastructure gaps slowing down progress in single ventricle research, the roadmap defines crucial research pathways for exploration and investment.

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Single Ventricle Scientific Advisory Board

Deepak Srivastava, MD
Deepak Srivastava, MD

President, Gladstone Institutes

Professor, University of California, San Francisco

Anthony Philippakis, MD, PhD
Anthony Philippakis, MD, PhD

Chief Data Officer, Institute Scientist

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Alison Marsden, PhD
Alison Marsden, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics – Cardiology and Bioengineering

Stanford University 

Anthony B. Firulli, PhD
Anthony B. Firulli, PhD

Endowed Professor of Pediatrics

Indiana University School of Medicine

Shelley Miyamoto, MD
Shelley Miyamoto, MD

Jack Cooper Millisor Chair in Pediatric Heart Disease
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Cardiomyopathy Program

University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado

Rahul Rathod, MD, MBA
Rahul Rathod, MD, MBA

Associate Cardiologist-in-Chief at Boston Children’s Hospital

Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School

Director of the Single Ventricle Program and the Fontan Clinic at Boston Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital

Patient and Family Advisory Board

Tawanna Williams, CPC
Tawanna Williams, CPC

Mother to a Post-Heart Transplant Single Ventricle Daughter

Owner/Lead DEI Consultant, Race Equity Solutions

Podcast Creator/Host, Broken Open

Bulent Arman Aksoy, PhD
Bulent Arman Aksoy, PhD

Father to a Single Ventricle Daughter

Computational Biologist

Taylor Houlihan
Taylor Houlihan

Single Ventricle Fontan Patient

3rd Year Medical Student

Jameson Rich
Jameson Rich

Post-Fontan Single Ventricle, Bi-Ventricular Repair

Writer and Filmmaker