FACILITIES AND RESEARCH MODELS

Our laboratory is a unique collaboration between the academic cardiothoracic surgery division in Emory medical school, the clinical CT surgery service in the Carlyle Fraser Heart Center at Emory Hospital Midtown, and the academic biomedical engineering department at Georgia Tech. We are located in a facility with 8000 sq ft of dedicated bench space, cell culture and molecular biology  surgical and catheterization laboratories and a large vivarium for our research. The laboratory is within a short distance from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and the clinical division of cardiothoracic surgery at Emory Hospital Midtown.  

• Ex-vivo mitral valve model

• ​In vivo mitral regurgitation models

• ​Open heart mitral surgery

• Cardiac imaging

• Heart failure models

• Infarct healing and regeneration models

• Aortic dissection models

If you have any questions regarding these models or need to use these models for your research, please contact Dr.Padala to discuss your project. 

Industry seeking to use preclinical models can contact Dr. Padala for further discussion. Most of our animal models are published in literature, and information will be provided to you about the model of interest to determine avenues for collaboration.