Co-section head of Preventive Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic
Cardiologist and researcher whose Cleveland Clinic team first showed that gut bacteria make TMAO when they digest nutrients such as choline and carnitine. His lab has tied TMAO to heart attack, stroke, heart failure and kidney disease risk and works on drugs that block its production. He is named on Cleveland Clinic patents on heart tests and treatments and has reported industry consulting and research funding.
WHAT TO WATCHWhether drugs that block TMAO production in the gut move into human trials.
Cleveland Clinic researchers link TMAO, a chemical gut bacteria make from parts of meat and eggs, to atrial fibrillation in 5,090 patients and push it in mice.
