Dr. Eric Gross is a member of the Stanford Center for Asian Research and Education (CARE), Cardiovascular Research Institute, and Bio-X. He has an extensive background in biomedical engineering, pharmacology, a board-certified anesthesiologist, and funded by the NIH continuously since 2011.
Dr. Gross's research group is within the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Perioperative organ injury are acute organ injuries that occur while undergoing surgery including acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and gut, lung, and kidney injury. The Gross laboratory research focuses on developing new models and cutting-edge strategies to better understand how genetic variants in Asians impact perioperative organ injury. In addition, the laboratory also focuses on how these genetic variants in Asians also impact exposures to alcohol and e-cigarettes.
Their research is centrally focused on aldehydes and aldehyde metabolism by the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2). Nearly 540 million people carry a genetic variant in ALDH2, ALDH2*2, which affects these biological processes we study. This is highlighted by our research published in journals such as Science Translational Medicine, Pain, BJA, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Redox Biology, and Physiological Reviews.
