José M. Pérez-Pomares obtained his PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Málaga in 2000, and was post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina until 2002. He is now a professor at the Deparment of Animal Biology at the University of Malage and is the chair of Nucleus (board) of the Working Group on Development, Anatomy and Pathology of the European Society of Cardiology. As PI of the Cardiovascular Development & Disease (DeCA) research group, Dr. Pérez-Pomares is interested in the developmental bases of cardiovascular disease, and the team aims at identifying new diagnostic and prognostic markers as well as therapeutical targets and advanced therapies to treat the diseased heart. He is author of 10 book chapters and more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed, international journals.

This book is the result of close collaboration between clininical and research scientists, both sharing the common objective of improving cardiovascular health through the prism of developmental biology [...] This volume will undoubtedly become the new reference for the bridge between clinicians and research scientists in the field and provide an entry point for both into the technologies and new therapeutic avenues brought by cardiovascular developmental biology

• 1: Cristina Basso, Deborah Henderson, José Luis de la Pompa, Robert G. Kelly, José Maria Pérez-Pomares, David Sedmera, & Maurice van den Hoff: Relevance of developmental studies for clinicians Section 1: Origin, distribution and determination of cardiovascular cell progenitors 2: A.F. Moorman, Bjarke Jensen, & R.J. Oostra: An evolutionary perspective on the origin of the cardiovascular system of vertebrates 3: Carmen Lopez-Sanchez, Virginio Garcia-Lopez, Gary C. Schoenwolf, & Virginio Garcia-Martinez: From epiblast to mesoderm: elaboration of a fate map for cardiovascular progenitors 4: Christopher De Bono & Robert G. Kelly: Cardiac Fields and myocardial cell lineages 5: LeShana SaintJean & H.S. Baldwin: Origin and diversity of embryonic endothelium/endocardium 6: F. Gabriella Fulcoli and Antonio Baldini: Transcriptional regulation of early cardiovascular development Section 2: Molecular regulation of cardiac tissue differentiation and patterning 7: Mayyasa Rammah, Francesca Rochais, & Robert G. Kelly: Incorporation of myocardial progenitors to the arterial pole of the heart 8: Bram van Wijk, Phil Barnett & Maurice J B van den Hoff: The Developmental Origin of Myocardium at the Venous Pole of the Heart 9: Sigolène M. Meilhac: Cardiac growth (I): Cardiomyocyte proliferation 10: Stéphane Zaffran: Cardiac growth (I): Cardiomyocyte polarisation 11: Gaetano D'Amato, Guillermo Luxán & José Luis de la Pompa: Defining cardiac domains from the inside: NOTCH in endocardial-myocardial interactions 12: Adrián Ruiz-Villalba, Nikolaos Frangogiannis, & José Maria Pérez-Pomares: Origin and diversity of cardiac fibroblasts: developmental substrates of adult cardiac fibrosis Section 3: Morphogenesis of cardiovascular structures. On form and function 13: David Sedmera & Robert P. Thompson: Building the cardiovascular system: the acquisition of a functional form 14: Marina Campione, Amelia Aranega & Diego Franco: Cardiac looping and laterality 15: Lucile Miquerol: Origin and development of the cardiac conduction system 16: Rui Benedito and Arndt Friedrich Siekmann: Blood vessel differentiation and growth 17: D MacGrogan, Jose Maria Pérez-Pomares, Bill Chaudhry, Jose-Luis de la Pompa and Deborah Henderson: From cushions to leaflets: Morphogenesis of cardiac atrioventricular valves 18: Deborah J. Henderson, Bill Chaudhry, and José Luis de la Pompa: Development of the arterial valves 19: Laura A. Dyer & Margaret L. Kirby: The role of neural crest in cardiac development 20: Robert Dettman, Juan Antonio Guadix, Elena Cano, Rita Carmona, & Ramón Muñoz-Chápuli: The multiple functions of the proepicardial/epicardial cell lineage in heart development 21: Robert J. Tomanek, Adriana A. Silva Pires Gomes, José Maria Pérez-Pomares: The development of coronary vascularization Section 4: Abnormal cardiac morphogenesis and the origin of congenital heart disease 22: Jamie Bentham: The genetics of congenital heart disease 23: Robert H. Anderson, Nigel A. Brown, Simon D. Bamforth, Bill Chaudhry, Deborah J. Henderson, and Timothy J. Mohun: Development of the Outflow Tract 24: S. Yen Ho and Matina Prapa: Arterial wall remodelling in congenital heart disease 25: Cristina Basso, José Maria Perèz-Pomares, Gaetano Thiene, and Lucile Houyel: Coronary anomalies 26: Mary Sheppard: Myocardial non-compaction 27: Alex V. Postma, David Sedmera, Frantisek Vostarek, Vincent M. Christoffels, and Connie R. Bezzina: Developmental Aspects of Cardiac Arrhythmias Section 5: Frontiers in cardiovascular development 28: Mauro Giacca and Borja Ibáñez: Advanced therapies to treat cardiovascular diseases. Controversies and perspectives 29: Bill Chaudhry, José Luis de la Pompa, and Nadia Mercade: The zebrafish as a model for cardiac development and regeneration 30: Daniela Salvatori, Harsha.D. Devalla and Robert Passier: Cells to repair the infarcted myocardium 31: Yolan J. Reckman and Yigal M. Pinto: The role of non-coding RNA/micro RNAs in cardiac disease 32: Jin Yang, Pei Han, Wei Li, and Ching-Pin Chang: Egigenetics and post-transcriptional regulation of cardiovascular development 33: Marcel Grunert, Andreas Perrot, and Silke Rickert-Sperling: Complex network interactions: cardiovascular system biology