Claire Zhao, a second-year BME PhD student in Dr. Raimond Winslow’s lab, has been awarded a Post-Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (PGSD) from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). This award will support her project “Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Calcium Entrained Arrhythmia”, which aims to gain new insights into the causes of cardiac […]
A paper by Yasmin Hashambhoy, Joseph Greenstein, and Raimond Winslow has been selected for inclusion in a Virtual Special Issue of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology on Calcium “enclosing a selection of outstanding contributions on the topic published over the past two years”. The paper selected is “Role of CaMKII in RyR leak, […]
A new article in the journal Heart Rhythm entitled “Mapping of cardiac electrical activation with electromechanical wave imaging: An in silico–in vivo reciprocity study” from Trayanova lab was highlighted by an editorial. The goal of the research in the published article was to model ultrasound electromechanical wave imaging in the heart using an anatomically realistic […]
Jean Fan, an undergraduate student working with Dr. Rachel Karchin, has been awarded a 2011 Provost’s Undergraduate Research (PURA) Award for her proposal entitled “Improving computational models of the biological consequences of mutation through limiting the phylogenetic distances of orthologous sequences”. Congratulations to Jean for her award!
Millie Shah, a biomedical engineering undergraduate student in the lab of Feilim Mac Gabhann, has been awarded a 2011 Provost’s Undergraduate Research (PURA) Award for her project entitled “Computational Modeling of VEGF and sFlt-1 to Stimulate Preeclampsia and Evaluate Treatments”. “For [her] PURA project, [she] developed a computer model that depicts the activity of these […]
Brent Millare, a second-year BME PhD student in Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s lab, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from NHLBI. The award will support his project “Metabolic/Electrophysiological Model of the Heart under Ischemia/Reperfusion”, which aims to address the ways in which coupling between metabolic and electrophysiological processes in the whole heart contribute […]
For a second year in a row, 4th year PhD student Lukas Rantner’s abstract submitted to the Heart Rhythm Scientific Sessions was chosen to be presented at the meeting’s featured poster session. Heart Rhythm (about 13 thousand participants) accepts only about 30% of submitted abstracts, and only the top 1% are chosen for the featured […]
Jodi Chapman (Art as Applied to Medicine graduate student at JHMI) was awarded the 2011 Alan W. Cole Scholarship, the top scholarship prize from the Vesalius Trust, for her work collaborating with the Karchin Lab on an educational computer video game to teach protein evolution. The Vesalius Trust for Visual Communication in the Health Sciences […]
Jason Constantino placed third in the young investigators poster competition (translational category) at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, which was held on February 13-19 at Galveston, Texas. His poster was entitled, “Systems Biology Approach to Cardiac Electromechanics: Impaired Calcium Kinetics and Remodeled Ventricular Structure Prolong the Electromechanical Delay in Dyssynchronous Heart Failure.” […]
Jason Constantino, a PhD student in Dr. Trayanova’s lab, has been awarded a NIH predoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA). His research project, entitled “Image-based models of electromechanics in normal and failing hearts”, aims to characterize the relation between electrical activation and mechanical contraction in normal and failing hearts under different loading […]
