Michael S. Kapiloff
Associate Professor
Opthalmology
Stanford University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Kapiloff earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences in 1991 at the University of California, San Diego, in the laboratory of Dr. M. Geoffrey Rosenfeld, a HHMI investigator and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He graduated from UCSD with a Doctorate of Medicine in 1992 and completed a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Utah in 1995. In 1997, Dr. Kapiloff became a Research Assistant Professor, performing research in the laboratory of HHMI Investigator Dr. John Scott at the Vollum Institute in Portland, OR. From 1999 to 2007, Dr. Kapiloff was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. From 2007 to 2017, he was Director of the Cardiac Signal Transduction and Cellular Biology Laboratory at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida, where he was, as of 2013, a tenured Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine in the Division of Cardiology. Dr. Kapiloff was recruited to Stanford in July, 2017. Dr. Kapiloff has been named a Fellow of the American Heart Association and the American Physiological Society and a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Research Interest
Basic molecular mechanisms underlying the response of the retinal ganglion cell and cardiac myocyte to disease.
