Benjamin Kopecky, MD, PhD

Professional Titles

• Assistant Professor

Publications

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=benjamin+kopecky&sort=date
• Ambardekar AV, Kopecky BJ, Raymer DS. Finding an Unobstructed View Toward the Treatment of Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Lifting the Hunger Fog. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 May 28;83(21):2049-2051. PubMed PMID: 38777508
• Kopecky BJ, Lavine KJ. Cardiac macrophage metabolism in health and disease. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2024 Mar;35(3):249-262. PubMed PMID: 37993313
• Amrute JM, Luo X, Penna V, Yang S, Yamawaki T, Hayat S, Bredemeyer A, Jung IH, Kadyrov FF, Heo GS, Venkatesan R, Shi SY, Parvathaneni A, Koenig AL, Kuppe C, Baker C, Luehmann H, Jones C, Kopecky B, Zeng X, Bleckwehl T, Ma P, Lee P, Terada Y, Fu A, Furtado M, Kreisel D, Kovacs A, Stitziel NO, Jackson S, Li CM, Liu Y, Rosenthal NA, Kramann R, Ason B, Lavine KJ. Targeting immune-fibroblast cell communication in heart failure. Nature. 2024 Nov;635(8038):423-433. PubMed PMID: 39443792
• Kadyrov FF, Koenig AL, Amrute JM, Dun H, Li W, Weinheimer CJ, Nigro JM, Kovacs A, Bredemeyer AL, Yang S, Das S, Penna VR, Parvathaneni A, Lai L, Hartmann N, Kopecky BJ, Kreisel D, Lavine KJ. Hypoxia sensing in resident cardiac macrophages regulates monocyte fate specification following ischemic heart injury. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2024 Nov;3(11):1337-1355. PubMed PMID: 39433910
• Ambardekar AV, Kopecky BJ, Raymer DS. Finding an Unobstructed View Toward the Treatment of Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Lifting the Hunger Fog. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 May 28;83(21):2049-2051. PubMed PMID: 38777508
• Ambardekar AV, Kopecky BJ. The Farm to Table HFpEF Kitchen: Selecting the Right Ingredients for the Discerning Palate. JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2024 Mar;9(3):300-302. PubMed PMID: 38559628
• Zhang X, Heo GS, Li A, Lahad D, Detering L, Tao J, Gao X, Zhang X, Luehmann H, Sultan D, Lou L, Venkatesan R, Li R, Zheng J, Amrute J, Lin CY, Kopecky BJ, Gropler RJ, Bredemeyer A, Lavine K, Liu Y. Development of a CD163-Targeted PET Radiotracer That Images Resident Macrophages in Atherosclerosis. J Nucl Med. 2024 May 1;65(5):775-780. PubMed PMID: 38548349
• Owen MC, Kopecky BJ. Targeting Macrophages in Organ Transplantation: A Step Toward Personalized Medicine. Transplantation. 2024 Oct 1;108(10):2045-2056. PubMed PMID: 38467591
• Kopecky BJ, Lavine KJ. Cardiac macrophage metabolism in health and disease. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2024 Mar;35(3):249-262. PubMed PMID: 37993313
• The Washington Manual of Heart Failure, first edition
• Cervical heterotopic heart transplantation in mice using a novel suture technique Dun, Hao et al. JHLT Open, Volume 7, 100164
• Bai YZ, Kopecky BJ, Lavine KJ, Kreisel D. Ferroptosis in the post-transplantation inflammatory response. Cell Immunol. 2023 Nov-Dec;393-394:104774. PubMed PMID: 37839157
• Tadepalli S, Clements DR, Saravanan S, Arroyo Hornero R, Lüdtke A, Blackmore B, Paulo JA, Gottfried-Blackmore A, Seong D, Park S, Chan L, Kopecky BJ, Liu Z, Ginhoux F, Lavine KJ, Murphy JP, Mack M, Graves EE, Idoyaga J. Rapid recruitment and IFN-I-mediated activation of monocytes dictate focal radiotherapy efficacy. Sci Immunol. 2023 Jun 2;8(84):eadd7446. PubMed PMID: 37294749
• Amrute JM, Lai L, Ma P, Koenig AL, Kamimoto K, Bredemeyer A, Shankar TS, Kuppe C, Kadyrov FF, Schulte LJ, Stoutenburg D, Kopecky BJ, Navankasattusas S, Visker J, Morris SA, Kramann R, Leuschner F, Mann DL, Drakos SG, Lavine KJ. Defining cardiac functional recovery in end-stage heart failure at single-cell resolution. Nat Cardiovasc Res. 2023 Apr;2(4):399-416. PubMed PMID: 37583573
• Borcherding N, Jia W, Giwa R, Field RL, Moley JR, Kopecky BJ, Chan MM, Yang BQ, Sabio JM, Walker EC, Osorio O, Bredemeyer AL, Pietka T, Alexander-Brett J, Morley SC, Artyomov MN, Abumrad NA, Schilling J, Lavine K, Crewe C, Brestoff JR. Dietary lipids inhibit mitochondria transfer to macrophages to divert adipocyte-derived mitochondria into the blood. Cell Metab. 2022 Oct 4;34(10):1499-1513.e8. PubMed PMID: 36070756
• Moreno JD, Verma AK, Kopecky BJ, Dehner C, Kostelecky N, Vader JM, Lin CY, Schilling JD. Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Antibody-mediated Rejection Following Orthotopic Heart Transplant: A Single-center Experience. Transplantation. 2022 Feb 1;106(2):373-380. PubMed PMID: 33988339
• Kopecky BJ, Dun H, Amrute JM, Lin CY, Bredemeyer AL, Terada Y, Bayguinov PO, Koenig AL, Frye CC, Fitzpatrick JAJ, Kreisel D, Lavine KJ. Donor Macrophages Modulate Rejection After Heart Transplantation. Circulation. 2022 Aug 23;146(8):623-638. PubMed PMID: 35880523
• Wong NR, Mohan J, Kopecky BJ, Guo S, Du L, Leid J, Feng G, Lokshina I, Dmytrenko O, Luehmann H, Bajpai G, Ewald L, Bell L, Patel N, Bredemeyer A, Weinheimer CJ, Nigro JM, Kovacs A, Morimoto S, Bayguinov PO, Fisher MR, Stump WT, Greenberg M, Fitzpatrick JAJ, Epelman S, Kreisel D, Sah R, Liu Y, Hu H, Lavine KJ. Resident cardiac macrophages mediate adaptive myocardial remodeling. Immunity. 2021 Sep 14;54(9):2072-2088.e7. PubMed PMID: 34320366
• Kopecky BJ, Frye C, Terada Y, Balsara KR, Kreisel D, Lavine KJ. Role of donor macrophages after heart and lung transplantation. Am J Transplant. 2020 May;20(5):1225-1235. PubMed PMID: 31850651
• Nichols DH, Bouma JE, Kopecky BJ, Jahan I, Beisel KW, He DZZ, Liu H, Fritzsch B. Interaction with ectopic cochlear crista sensory epithelium disrupts basal cochlear sensory epithelium development in Lmx1a mutant mice. Cell Tissue Res. 2020 Jun;380(3):435-448. PubMed PMID: 31932950

Practice Locations

UCHealth Heart Failure Program - Anschutz
12505 E. 16th Ave
Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion 2, 3rd floor
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-5300

Hospital Affiliation

• University of Colorado Hospital

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
• Internal Medicine