Meet the Principal Investigator
![Headshot of Dr. Sadek. He is wearing a shirt, tie, and lab coat in front of a dark green background.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-04/sadek-hesham.jpg?h=55541bb6&itok=1PAekC5O)
Hesham A Sadek, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor,
Internal Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Dr. Sadek earned his medical degree at Ain Shams University School of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt, and his doctoral degree in physiology and biophysics at Case Western Reserve University. He completed both his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at University Hospitals Cleveland. He also served a postdoctoral research fellowship in cardiology at UT Southwestern.
Lab Members
![Mahmoud Ahmed, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-04/Ahmed-Mahmoud.jpg?h=d4f986be&itok=XOKYJLvj)
![Nicholas Lam, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-04/Lam-Nicholas.jpg?h=db47cbb8&itok=M4BHgsC2)
![Nhi Nguyen, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-04/Nguyen-Nhi.jpg?h=3f482aa0&itok=XBMCFi59)
![Waleed Elhelaly, M.D., Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-04/Elhelaly-waleed.jpg?h=0e4c4856&itok=rAmZvlqq)
![Abdallah Elnwasany, M.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-04/Elnwasany-Abdallah.jpg?h=4de69ae3&itok=aBwiC1Pu)
![Ivan Menendez-Montes, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-04/Menendez%20Montes-Ivan.jpg?h=cd93e472&itok=0-YqVVZL)
![Ching-Cheng Hsu, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-04/Hsu-Ching-Cheng.jpg?h=69189783&itok=FGTurLIl)
![Suwannee Thet, M.Sc.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-04/thet-suwannee.jpg?h=0e4c4856&itok=3Q9zpcM1)
Lab Alumni
![Shah Ali, M.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Ali-Shah.jpeg?h=fce86294&itok=189ID6nn)
![Wataru Kimura, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/kimura-wataru.jpeg?h=9ef000f2&itok=8h8E035g)
![Yuji Nakada, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/nakada-yuji.jpeg?h=339bf239&itok=OzwL--G9)
![Diana Canseco, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/canseco-diana.jpeg?h=cf207751&itok=Z0QgZKLQ)
![Feng Xiao, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/xiao-feng.jpeg?h=392238a2&itok=qHRKCRIT)
![Shujuan Li, M.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Li-Shujuan.jpeg?h=63fa23f6&itok=Atdb0LMP)
![Ping Wang, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Ping%20Wang.jpeg?h=98b25746&itok=V6TCxK67)
![Bao Puente, M.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/puente-robyn.jpeg?h=0e4c4856&itok=mv46NvKn)
![Ahmed Mahmoud, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/mahmoud-ahmed.jpeg?h=3aa91bd9&itok=etlLwpLK)
![Fatih Kocabas, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/kocabas-fatih.jpeg?h=a6701fa5&itok=0SFEaWyy)
![Shalini Muralidhar, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/muralidhar-shalini.jpeg?h=0e4c4856&itok=48MrEFZ-)
![Yezan Abderrahman, M.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/abderrahman-yezan.jpeg?h=0e4c4856&itok=gMqTwes7)
![Sen Shawndip, M.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/shawndip-sen.jpeg?h=0e4c4856&itok=o11mNg20)
![Asitha Silva, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Silva-Asitha.jpeg?h=c8d20cdd&itok=6zmQ8D1h)
![Alisson Campos Cardoso, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Cardoso-Alisson.jpeg?h=2225a852&itok=K2SnF8tc)
![Jainy Savla, M.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/savla-jainy1.jpeg?h=84d9423e&itok=raJS549b)
![Ana Macedo Pereira, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Pereira-Ana.jpeg?h=7df7cfb5&itok=S8_MhPZA)
Maimon Hubbi, M.D., Ph.D.
![Maimon Hubbi, M.D., Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Hubbi-Maimon.jpeg?h=309c5fa8&itok=x0ZUKEDC)
![Jesung Moon, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Moon-Jesung.jpeg?h=d4f986be&itok=ZysIhZQG)
![Ayman Farag, Ph.D.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/Ayman%20Farag.jpeg?h=06b6d7d9&itok=_9IaCocq)
![Ingrid Kepinski, MSc., MSc.](/sites/default/files/styles/coh_small_square/public/2022-05/kepinski-ingrid.jpeg?h=ab81619e&itok=c088CR8R)