An actively practicing cardiologist and a committed teacher, Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, MPH, ML, MRA, is a professor and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked to create a one-shot “vaccination” against heart attacks, the leading cause of death worldwide.

 

May 2025

In May 2025 his work published in New England Journal of Medicine described “patient-specific in vivo gene editing” to save a baby’s life born with an incurable metabolic disease, for the first time in the world which opens the door to save millions of more lives in the future curing many other genetic disorders, ushering the future era of “molecular (genetic) surgery”, a brand new clinical medical specialty.

Reflections on Kiran's Life

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