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CardioVive™ · human heart organoids

Human heart tissue with structure and complexity.

Beating human heart tissue with chambers, immune and neural cells. The source of the real human data behind CytoHub.AI.

CardioVive human heart organoid with integrated immune cells
Confocal image of a CardioVive human heart organoid showing distinct chamber-like regions
CardioVive heart organoid, confocal immunofluorescence. Aguirre Lab, MSU.

Built like a human heart

Real structure, not a flat layer of cells.

Each organoid self-organizes into chamber-like regions with the cell types of a developing human heart.

96%of the cell types found in a human heart
13cell types, including immune and neural
3chamber types: atrial, nodal, ventricular

Lewis-Israeli et al. 2021 · Volmert et al. 2023 · O’Hern et al. 2025

Action potential traces from atrial, nodal and ventricular regions of CardioVive tissue

Electrophysiology

Read drugs chamber by chamber.

Atrial, nodal and ventricular regions each fire their own action potential, so a drug that hits one chamber shows up clearly.

Ondansetron · 5-HT3 · publishedDofetilide · hERG · unpublishedParoxetine · SSRI · preprint

Traces: Volmert et al., Nat Commun 2023. Paroxetine: Kostina et al., bioRxiv, under review.

Imaging

One organoid, read channel by channel.

Each fluorescent channel shows a different layer of the same tissue. Merged, they become one dataset for CytoHub.AI.

  1. Organoid, blue channel
    01

    Blue channel

    The first layer of the tissue, imaged on its own.

  2. Organoid, green channel
    02

    Green channel

    A second stain, in the same organoid and the same frame.

  3. Organoid, red channel
    03

    Red channel

    A third stain, adding another layer of structure.

  4. Organoid, all three channels merged
    04

    Merged

    All three together: one human heart tissue, captured as one dataset.

Fluorescence image of a human heart organoid, shown channel by channel.

One heart model. Every cardiac question pharma asks.

In paid use

Cardiotoxicity

Flag cardiac liabilities before first-in-human dosing.

Shown

Arrhythmia

QT and AF signals from known drugs reproduced.

In paid use

Immune-cardiac

Inflammation-driven atrial fibrillation, with resident macrophages.

Shown

Congenital defects

Developmental toxicity, such as ondansetron’s septal-defect signal.

Also measured: contraction (HFrEF). Next: relaxation (HFpEF).

Case study · ondansetron (Zofran)

The dish matches the clinic.

Ondansetron carries clinical warnings for QT prolongation and septal defects. In our founding lab’s published work, the tissue showed signals consistent with both.

Action potential traces lengthening at 1, 10 and 100 micromolar ondansetron
APD ↑Action potentials lengthen with dose (p < 0.001), consistent with the QT warning.
MYL2 ventricular marker staining falling with ondansetron dose while MYL7 is stable
MYL2 ↓Ventricular marker falls with dose, consistent with the septal-defect warning.

Volmert et al., Nat Commun 2023 · clinical context: Huybrechts 2018, Danielsson 2014

Immune-cardiac · a heart immunoid

Cardiac safety needs the immune system.

CardioVive is a heart immunoid: human heart tissue with its own immune cells, built to the design standards our founding lab proposed in Cell Stem Cell (2026).

  1. AutologousHeart and immune cells from one stem-cell line.
  2. IntegratedImmune cells settle throughout the tissue and stay.
  3. FunctionalInflammation triggers NLRP3-driven atrial arrhythmia.
  4. Development-matchedImmune cells arrive early; EMM2/1 matures the tissue.

Like all immunoids today, CardioVive is partly immune-competent; more immune cell types are next. It complements established safety studies.

O’Hern et al., Cell Stem Cell 2025 and 2026

Heart organoids with 0, 10,000, 20,000 and 30,000 monocytes added; immune cells in green increase with dose
Immune content is tunable: more monocytes in, more macrophages. O’Hern et al. 2025.

Designed to cover all five.

Most models offer throughput or biology. CardioVive with CytoHub.AI is designed to deliver human structure, throughput, immune and neural cells, AI and proprietary data together.

ApproachHuman heart structurePharma throughputImmune + neuralAI on its own dataProprietary heart data
CytoHub · CardioVive + CytoHub.AI
AI drug discovery platforms
Multi-organ tissue platforms
2D cardiomyocyte monolayers
Cardiac spheroids
Organ-on-chip

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YesPartialNoIllustrative, based on public information about each category

Blind validation

Catch the drugs pharma already lost.

Our next study tests drugs that failed in the clinic for cardiac safety, blinded and alongside safe controls. We will publish the score, hits and misses alike.

The scoreboard we will publishNext study
Sensitivitytoxic drugs flagged
≥80%target
Specificitysafe controls cleared
≥90%target
Head-to-headvs hERG assay and animal models
3-way
Ondansetron: publishedDofetilide: unpublished

Put human cell data to work on your next decision.

Pilot studies, data partnerships, investor meetings and Cardia Therapeutics partnerships.