Francisco Galdos is an M.D. and Ph.D. graduate student in Dr. Sean Wu’s laboratory at Stanford University. He graduated in 2015 from Harvard University with a degree in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology and will be graduating with his Ph.D. in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine from Stanford in June 2022. Francisco’s research focuses on using genetic lineage tracing tools and single cell RNA-sequencing to understand the development of cardiac cell types during human induced pluripotent stem cell differentiation. His work has led to the development of informatic tools for the identification of left ventricular cardiomyocytes during in vitro cardiac development and new tools for automated cell annotation of complex developmental scRNA-seq datasets. He is passionate about heart development and aims to pursue a career as a physician-scientist where he can treat patients with congenital heart disease and leverage single-cell technologies to uncover disease mechanisms.