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- Phone:
Main - 212-305-4622
- Address:
- 3959 Broadway New York, NY 10032
- Link:
https://doctors.columbia.edu/us/ny/new-york/kimara-leibowitz-targoff-md-3959-broadway
- Categories
- Physicians & Surgeons, Pediatrics-Cardiology, Physicians & Surgeons, Physicians & Surgeons, Pediatrics
- Location
- CUIMC/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
General Info
Kimara L. Targoff, MD, is interested in the identification and characterization of genes that are essential for key developmental processes in cardiac morphogenesis. She works clinically as a Pediatric Cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. Simultaneously, Dr. Targoff studies the genetic mechanisms regulating heart development in zebrafish. Her laboratory's research is focused on the role of nkx genes, cardiac-specific homeodomain transcription factors, in establishing and maintaining cardiomyocyte identity.