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Research Areas
Cardiovascular Engineering
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death and disability in developed countries. Cardiovascular engineering encompasses a multi-disciplinary effort to improve our understanding of cardiovascular disease and develop better therapies.
This program seeks to develop new methods to study, diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. Examples include understanding how molecules control the heartbeat, imaging the electrical potential at the surface of the heart, engineering cardiac tissues, and creating mathematical models to connect heart function to its nanoscale molecular foundation.
Primary Faculty
Jianmin Cui
Professor
Song Hu
Associate Professor
Nathaniel Huebsch
Assistant Professor
Princess Imoukhuede
Associate Professor
Abhinav Jha
Assistant Professor
Yoram Rudy
Professor
Jin-Yu Shao
Associate Professor
Jonathan Silva
Associate Professor
Chao Zhou
Associate Professor
Affiliated Faculty
David Bark, PhD - Hematology and Oncology
Platelet mechanobiology, thrombosis and hemostasis, biotransport, biofluids, biomechanics, blood-contacting medical devices, cardiovascular development
Matthew Bersi, PhD - Mechanical Engineeing & Materials Science
Cardiovascular disease, fibrosis, inflammation, lymphocytes, soft tissue biomechanics, cell mechanics and mechanobiology, mathematical modeling
Guy Genin - Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Interfaces and adhesion in physiology and nature; optical strain analysis; continuum mechanics; viscoelasticity
Michael Greenberg - Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
molecular motors in health and disease, single molecule, optical trapping, stem cells, tissue engineering
Geoff Hugo - Radiation Oncology
image guided radiation therapy, adaptive radiation therapy, machine learning, lung CT, image analysis
Sándor Kovács, PhD, MD - Medicine, Cardiovascular
mathematical physiology, kinematic modeling, cardiovascular biophysics, echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, cardiac MRI, hemodynamics, human physiology
Gregory Lanza, MD - Internal Medicine - Cardiovascular Division
Targeted drug delivery. Molecular imaging, Nanomedicine, Vascular disease, Liquid and Solid Cancer Technologies, Contrast Agent Development
Robert Mecham - Cell Biology & Physiology
Extracellular matrix, vascular development, vascular disease, cell-matrix interactions, tissue mechanics and development
Jeanne Nerbonne - Medicine - Cardiovascular Division
Regulation of membrane excitability, structure and function of ion channels
Colin Nichols - Cell Biology & Physiology
Molecular aspects of potassium channels
Stacey Rentschler, MD, PhD - Medicine - Cardiovascular Division
programming and reprogramming cardiac conduction, arrhythmias, optical mapping, gene therapy
Janice Robertson - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
membrane protein folding thermodynamics assembly single-molecule TIRF microscopy computational modeling structure function oligomerization lipids
Kooresh Isaac Shoghi - Radiology - Rad Sci
Computational biology at the interface with in-vivo imaging in animal models, in particular as it relates to metabolic regulation and obesity, diabetes
Monica Shokeen - Radiology
Contrast Agent Development, Nanoparticles, Cancer Imaging, Cardiovascular Imaging, Functional PET, MRI
Jessica Wagenseil - Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
vascular mechanics, vascular development, extracellular matrix, elastin, elastic fibers, vascular modeling
Yong Wang- Obstetrics & Gynecology
Diffusion MRI and PET imaging; Noninvasive Electrophysiology Imaging; Cancer and Immunotherapy Imaging; Preterm Birth; Alzheimer's disease
Pamela Woodard, MD
Radiology, PET, MRI, Molecular Imaging, Cardiac Imaging, Translational Research, PET tracers, Atherosclerosis
Mohamed Zayed - Surgery
peripheral vascular disease, arteriovenous implants for treatment of diabetes, venous thrombectomy device treating DVT