Dr. John D Mably

I received my B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.  For my postdoctoral training, I joined the laboratory of Dr. Mark Fishman at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC), in 1996.  This group of scientists were the first to use zebrafish as an animal model to study the genetics of cardiac development and disease.  I became a Principal Investigator in the CVRC in 2003.

In January of 2007, I joined the Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) research community and was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School.  I continued my research focused on cardiovascular development using the zebrafish model in the Cardiovascular Research group at BCH.  I later moved to Hampton University in 2013 to accept an Associate Professor position and to continue my research and to help establish a vibrant research enterprise at this Historical Black College/University (HBCU).  At Hampton University, I also initiated innovative studies of cardiovascular disease disparities that affect minority populations.

I am currently an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa.  I am a faculty member of the USF Morsani College of Medicine (MCOM) and a member of the USF Health Center for Regenerative Medicine and Heart Institute.  I continue to study human cardiovascular disease employing mouse and zebrafish systems for these studies.