University of California San Francisco

Dr. Tobias Deuse
Tobias Deuse, MD

Professor of Surgery, UCSF
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
The Julien I.E. Hoffman, M.D. Endowed Chair in Cardiac Surgery
Director, Minimally-invasive Cardiac Surgery
Surgical Director, Transcatheter Valve Program
Principal Investigator, TSI Lab

Academic Office:
500 Parnassus Ave, MUW 405, Box 0118
San Francisco, CA 94143-0118
Tel: (415) 353-8890
Email: [email protected] 
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Cardiac Surgery Program
400 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 501, Box 0957
San Francisco, California,  94143
Tel:415-353-1606
Fax: 415-353-1312

    Biography

    Dr. Tobias Deuse is a heart surgeon and the director of minimally invasive cardiac surgery at UCSF. He is known for his pioneering work in developing minimally invasive techniques for mitral valve repair.

    Deuse earned his medical degree from the University of Würzburg in Germany. He received advanced training in heart and lung surgery at the University Hospital of Munich and University Heart Center Hamburg. After obtaining board certification in Germany as a heart surgeon, he completed a fellowship in lung and heart-lung transplantation with Stanford Medicine.

    After returning to Germany in 2009, Deuse was appointed director of heart and lung transplantation at the University Heart Center Hamburg. He achieved international acclaim for his development of innovative approaches to heart failure surgery, most notably minimally invasive techniques for implanting ventricular assist systems. He also demonstrated that high success rates could be achieved in mitral valve repair utilizing fully robot-assisted endoscopic surgery. Also known as keyhole surgery, this approach has many benefits for the patient, including substantially reduced postsurgical pain, shorter hospital stays and faster recovery.

    Deuse has received numerous honors, including election to the board of directors of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

    Education

    Institution Degree Dept or School End Date
    University of California Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training 2019

    Collaboration Interests

    I am interested in:

    • physician scientist

    Clinical Expertise

    Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

    Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery

    Minimally Invasive Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Closure

    Aortic Valve Repair & Replacement

    Acute Aortic Dissection Repair

    Heart Transplantation

    Lung Transplantation

    Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)

    Ventricular Aneurysm

    Arrhythmia

    Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)

    Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass (OPCAB)

    Program Affiliations

    UCSF Heart & Vascular Center

    Grants and Funding

    • Hypo-immunogenic cardiomyocytes for myocardial repair | NIH | 2018-08-01 - 2022-06-30 | Role: Principal Investigator
    • Microgravity as model for immunological senescence and its impact on tissue stem cells and regeneration | NIH | 2017-06-15 - 2022-06-30 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    • Microgravity as model for immunological senescence and its impact on tissue stem cells and regeneration | NIH | 2017-06-15 - 2020-02-29 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator

    Research Narrative

    Dr. Deuse's research is focused on vascular biology and pathophysiology. His group was the among the first to elucdiate the novel pathways involved in the development of vascular intimal hyperplasia. Myointimal hyperplasia is a pathological process of the vascular system characterized by abnormal proliferation of smooth muscle cells of the vascular wall that leads to luminal obliteration and subsequent ischemia.

    Myointimal hyperplasia may occur in patients after vessel injury during medical procedures (e.g. after balloon dilation or stent placement) or after pathological injury of the blood vessel (e.g. due to inflammation or toxic exposure). It can cause bypass graft failure and in-stent restenosis. To help prevent this and increase the success of treatments for vascular disease including coronary heart disease, his research group is working on the development of new preventive drug regimes and strategies.

    Research Interests

    Vascular Biology

    Stem Cell Immunobiology

    Transplant Immunology

    Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis

    Pulmonary Hypertension

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 142
    1. The HIP mouse and all of its organs are completely invisible to allogeneic immune cells.
      Hu X, White K, Olroyd AG, Wang C, Caruso CB, Gattis C, Young C, Connolly AJ, Deuse T, Schrepfer S| | PubMed
    2. Clinical Improvement With Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Tricuspid Repair Irrespective of Right Atrial Pressure.
      Ya'Qoub L, Caughron H, Qasim A, Tolstrop K, Delling FN, Watt C, Nguyen T, Deuse T, Beygui RE, Mahadevan VS| | PubMed
    3. Hypoimmune islets achieve insulin independence after allogeneic transplantation in a fully immunocompetent non-human primate.
      Hu X, White K, Young C, Olroyd AG, Kievit P, Connolly AJ, Deuse T, Schrepfer S| | PubMed
    4. Four decades of progress in heart-lung transplantation: Two hundred seventy-one cases at a single institution.
      Elde S, Baccouche BM, Mullis DM, Leipzig MM, Deuse T, Krishnan A, Fawad M, Dale R, Walsh S, Padilla-Lopez A, Wesley B, He H, Yajima S, Zhu Y, Wang H, Guenthart BA, Shudo Y, Reitz BA, Woo YJ| | PubMed
    5. Lung Transplantation in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis: A Complex Task, A Changing Target.
      Loebe M, Deuse T, Sinha N, Koster A, Erdoes G| | PubMed
    6. Synthetic immune checkpoint engagers protect HLA-deficient iPSCs and derivatives from innate immune cell cytotoxicity.
      Gravina A, Tediashvili G, Zheng Y, Iwabuchi KA, Peyrot SM, Roodsari SZ, Gargiulo L, Kaneko S, Osawa M, Schrepfer S, Deuse T| | PubMed
    7. Hypoimmune induced pluripotent stem cells survive long term in fully immunocompetent, allogeneic rhesus macaques.
      Hu X, White K, Olroyd AG, DeJesus R, Dominguez AA, Dowdle WE, Friera AM, Young C, Wells F, Chu EY, Ito CE, Krishnapura H, Jain S, Ankala R, McGill TJ, Lin A, Egenberger K, Gagnon A, Michael Rukstalis J, Hogrebe NJ, Gattis C, Basco R, Millman JR, Kievit P, Davis MM, Lanier LL, Connolly AJ, Deuse T, Schrepfer S| | PubMed
    8. Human hypoimmune primary pancreatic islets avoid rejection and autoimmunity and alleviate diabetes in allogeneic humanized mice.
      Hu X, Gattis C, Olroyd AG, Friera AM, White K, Young C, Basco R, Lamba M, Wells F, Ankala R, Dowdle WE, Lin A, Egenberger K, Rukstalis JM, Millman JR, Connolly AJ, Deuse T, Schrepfer S| | PubMed
    9. Hypoimmune anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T cells provide lasting tumor control in fully immunocompetent allogeneic humanized mice.
      Hu X, Manner K, DeJesus R, White K, Gattis C, Ngo P, Bandoro C, Tham E, Chu EY, Young C, Wells F, Basco R, Friera A, Kangeyan D, Beauchesne P, Dowdle WE, Deuse T, Fry TJ, Foster AE, Schrepfer S| | PubMed
    10. Protection of cell therapeutics from antibody-mediated killing by CD64 overexpression.
      Gravina A, Tediashvili G, Rajalingam R, Quandt Z, Deisenroth C, Schrepfer S, Deuse T| | PubMed