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Slava Epelman

ResearcherCardiologyUniversity of Toronto

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Slava Epelman

Researcher

Cardiology

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
35 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 13 research grants (13 CIHR), most recently in 2026.
Supervised 7 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2026.

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Research

Cardiac Hypertension Macrophage Type I Interferon Fate Mapping Mouse Myocarditis Macrophages

Latest papers

Immunology of Cardiometabolic Health and Disease: From Novelty to Necessity.
The Canadian journal of cardiology · 2026
Evaluating the temporal and sociodemographic generalizability of the emergency heart failure mortality risk grade.
ESC heart failure · 2026
Macrophage Plasticity and Immune Remodeling in Ischemic Heart Failure.
Immunological reviews · 2026

All 70 publications

Latest funding

Hypertension Underlies Immune Vulnerability and Decompensation During Viral Myocarditis
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
$100,000
Breaking the Inflammation-Remodeling Axis in Heart Disease using Nitric Oxide-Sensitive MRI
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$1,086,300
Engineering macrophages to support cardiac tissue regeneration
CIHR · 2026 · Supervisor
$140,000

All 29 grants and awards

70 publications.

Immunology of Cardiometabolic Health and Disease: From Novelty to Necessity.

Day EA, Dick SA, Epelman S, Dobrev D, Feinstein MJ

The Canadian journal of cardiology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2026.06.005 PMID: 42276416

Evaluating the temporal and sociodemographic generalizability of the emergency heart failure mortality risk grade.

Abdul-Samad K, Wang X, Austin PC, Abdel-Qadir H, McIntosh C, Gramolini A, Mamdani M, Epelman S, Ross HJ, Lee DS

ESC heart failure2026

DOI: 10.1093/eschf/xvag156 PMID: 42212505

Macrophage Plasticity and Immune Remodeling in Ischemic Heart Failure.

Xiao C, MacDonald L, Epelman S, Lavine KJ

Immunological reviews2026

DOI: 10.1111/imr.70137 PMID: 42323704

Donor and recipient immune programs underlying delayed graft function in kidney transplantation revealed by temporal single-cell profiling.

Mak ML, Murphy JM, Mathews JA, Su S, Konvalinka A, Epelman S, Crome SQ

Kidney international2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2026.07.035 PMID: 42772447

Role of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 in Response to SARS-CoV-2 in the Host With Metabolic Dysfunction.

Epelman S, Baskaran G

JACC. Basic to translational science2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2026.101713 PMID: 42777422

Necroptosis is a key contributor to impaired cardiac repair following myocardial infarction.

Al Rimon R, Li Y, Meganathan I, Wang F, Murray AG, Oudit GY, Epelman S, Clemente-Casares X, Kassiri Z

Cell death & disease2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41419-026-08979-5 PMID: 42297768

The relationship between myocardial and hepatic T1 relaxometry on cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and clinical outcomes late after tetralogy of Fallot repair.

Ishikita A, Marques L, Thomas S, Begun I, DuPlessis J, DSouza R, Asakawa S, Karur GR, Hanneman K, Yuen DA, Chaturvedi RR, Friedberg MK, Epelman S, Roche SL, Wald RM

Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jocmr.2026.102747 PMID: 42173256

Temporal inhibition of ADAM17 in fibroblasts reduces stiffness and promotes vascularization following myocardial infarction.

Li Y, Al Rimon R, Wang F, Li H, Epelman S, Tallquist MD, Westover L, Oudit GY, Kassiri Z

Cardiovascular research2026

DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvaf256 PMID: 41524432

Loss of ADAM17 in smooth muscle cells enhances their transformation to macrophage-like cells leading to more severe atherosclerosis in mice.

Meganathan I, Kilic T, Al Rimon R, Naiya T, Krishnan V, Atanasova N, Wong A, Oudit GY, Epelman S, Kassiri Z

Atherosclerosis2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2025.120567 PMID: 41202739

Glyoxal is a superior fixative to formaldehyde in promoting antigenicity and structural integrity in murine cardiac tissues.

Teng ACT, Mehangrey D, Vandenbelt A, Vearncombe K, Callahan JD, Mistry P, Li W, Reitz CJ, Hamed O, Roche M, Kuzmanov U, Fish JE, Epelman S, Gramolini AO

Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology plus2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmccpl.2025.100454 PMID: 40485774

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Slava Epelman

Research

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Immunology of Cardiometabolic Health and Disease: From Novelty to Necessity.

Evaluating the temporal and sociodemographic generalizability of the emergency heart failure mortality risk grade.

Macrophage Plasticity and Immune Remodeling in Ischemic Heart Failure.

Donor and recipient immune programs underlying delayed graft function in kidney transplantation revealed by temporal single-cell profiling.

Role of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 in Response to SARS-CoV-2 in the Host With Metabolic Dysfunction.

Necroptosis is a key contributor to impaired cardiac repair following myocardial infarction.

The relationship between myocardial and hepatic T1 relaxometry on cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging and clinical outcomes late after tetralogy of Fallot repair.

Temporal inhibition of ADAM17 in fibroblasts reduces stiffness and promotes vascularization following myocardial infarction.

Loss of ADAM17 in smooth muscle cells enhances their transformation to macrophage-like cells leading to more severe atherosclerosis in mice.

Glyoxal is a superior fixative to formaldehyde in promoting antigenicity and structural integrity in murine cardiac tissues.

Frequent collaborators

Mansoor Husain

Filio Billia

BO WANG

Yiming Wang

Zamaneh Kassiri

Anthony Gramolini

Kate Hanneman

George Tomlinson

Gordon Keller

Seema Mital

Milica Radisic

Lorraine Chalifour

Sean van Diepen

Ana Konvalinka

Chris McIntosh

Arthur Mortha

Srinivas Murthy

Muhammad Mamdani

Lindsey Westover

Manel Jordana

Susan Waserman

Mark Soth

Josh Koenig

Martin R Stampfli

Rodrigo Jimenez Saiz

Gloria Vazquez-Grande

Elie Haddad

Ryan Zarychanski

CHEOLHO Cheong

Francois Lamontagne

Shaf Keshavjee

Claudia Dos Santos

Justin Ezekowitz