2022
Congratulations to Gediminas Gaidulis and Kirthana Suresh for acceptance of their abstracts for oral presentations at the World Congress of Biomechanics, to be held in June 2022. (1) A dynamic leaflet augmentation to treat functional mitral regurgitation: in-vitro efficacy studies. (2) Cardiac leaflet enhancer vs. MitraClip for the repair of functional mitral regurgitation - computational analysis of systolic leaflet and chordal stresses. |
New manuscript from our lab on a biohybrid material for use as a cardiovascular tissue substitute, is published in the Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. This study was led by post doctoral fellow, Dr. Jahnavi Mudigonda, and supported by a post doctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. |
2021
Congratulations to Dr. Mudigonda for acceptance of her abstract on a hybrid material for use as a cardiovascular tissue substitute, for presentation at the ISACB 2021 meeting in Atlanta.
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Tawfik Hussein, joins the laboratory to pursue his PhD studies on cardiac biomechanics. He is a first year biomedical engineering graduate student.
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We are excited to collaborate on this exciting new technology development R01 to develop a multi-functional, intra-coronary catheter for imaging blood flow dynamics in atherosclerotic plaques, led by Dr. Brooks Lindsey. Read more here: https://bme.gatech.edu/bme/news/lindsey-receives-25m-develop-interventional-cardiology-imaging-system
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New year, new research direction, new funding: We are thrilled to announce award of funding for two projects by the Additional Ventures Innovation Fund at Emory/GT to develop two new functional therapies for children born with single ventricle defects: (1) development of a transcatheter valve repair device for atrioventricular valve regurgitation in Fontan patients; (2) development of a self powered piggy back heart for patients with failing fontan circulation.
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Congratulations to Daniella Corporan PhD, for acceptance of our abstract titled " Adverse mitochondrial structural changes occur early after onset of mitral regurgitation despite prolonged preserved ejection fraction" for presentation at the 101st annual meeting of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons.
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2020
Congratulations to Kanika Kalra MD, for winning the Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia Council (CVSA) resident research award at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2020 for the abstract " Papillary muscle tip approximation in the repair of functional mitral regurgitation in a chronic swine model". PMT-A is a simple technique that is physiologically sound, and can treat FMR reproducibly and durably, without the need for replacement.
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Congratulations to Daniella Corporan for successfully defending her PhD thesis on the "Structural, mechanical and biological alterations of the left ventricle with chronic mitral regurgitation". She will be conferred a doctorate in biomedical engineering from Emory University and Georgia Tech at the end of the Fall semester.
You can view her thesis defense presentation at the link on the right. |
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New publication: Congratulations to Daisuke Onohara for acceptance of his new work on the therapeutic effect of restoring physiological oblong shape from a spherical shape in the failing heart, for publication in JTCVS
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New publication: Congratulations to Daniella Corporan for acceptance of her new work on chronic changes in ventricular myocardium in the setting of mitral regurgitation, for publication in JTCVS.
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Congratulations to Daniella Corporan for being awarded the 2020 Outstanding Translational Research Thesis from the Department of Biomedical Engineering
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New publication: Congratulations to Alan Amedi and Daisuke Onohara for acceptance of their new work on the inadequacy of annular approaches to repair functional tricuspid regurgitation for publication in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
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New funding: " In-utero left ventricular filling and its impact on chamber growth and maturation: mechanistic insights into hypoplastic left heart syndrome"
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Congratulations to former research assistant, Josh Eskew, for completing his MD from Medical College of Georgia and matching into Orthopedic Surgery residency. We wish him the best and look forward to great things from him
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Congratulations to freshman undergrad researcher, Hirschel Nambiar, for being awarded the Gibeling Research grant from the US Food & Drug administration
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Undergrad researcher, Sam Zhan-Moodie graduates from GT. Congratulations! She will be starting medical school in Fall 2020 and aspires to become a cardiac surgeon
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Congratulations to Alan Amedi, research technician in our lab for his admission into the MD class of 2024 at Emory University
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Congratulations to previous undergrad in our lab, JunSu Han for his admission into the PhD program in material science at UIUC
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Michael Silverman MD, a general surgery resident at Emory University joins the laboratory for a 2 year research sabbatical.
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Elorm Agra, wins the David Frakes endowed travel scholarship from the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations!
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Daniella Corporan wins first prize at the Georgia Tech career, research and innovation development conference. Congratulations!
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Funding* Jumpstart grant from Biolocity and Additional Ventures to develop functional therapies for single ventricle patients
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Tech transfer* NYRA Medical licenses the cardiac leaflet enhancer technology developed in our laboratory
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Kanika Kalra MD selected as a finalist for the Walton Lillehei resident competition at the AATS meeting
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Publication alert* Left ventricular thinning and dilatation to mimic heart failure, in the ASAIO journal
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Publication alert* New model of mitral regurgitation with echo guided leaflet puncture, in the JOVE
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Conference abstracts* Multiple talks accepted for presentation at the 100th AATS annual meeting in April 2020
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2019
Elorm Agra, MD/PhD student in our lab receives the looking to the future scholarship from STS
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Dr. Padala receives the inaugural innovation for impact award from the Emory University School of Medicine
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Multiple presentations from the laboratory at the Transcatheter Cardiac Therapeutics 2019 meeting in San Francisco
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New collaborative R01 with Georgia Tech titled "Ultrasound guided robotically steerable guidewire for endovascular applications" was awarded
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Feature piece on our laboratory as an interface between cardiovascular engineering and surgery, in the department annual report
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Multiple presentations at the 99th annual meeting of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons in Toronto. Congratulations to team!
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New publication in JTCVS on the adverse impact of mitral regurgitation on remodeling of the ischemic left ventricle, from Daisuke Onohara MD PhD
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Congratulations to Daniella for receiving an American Heart Association Predoctoral fellowship to study cardiac remodeling in mitral regurgitation
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Congratulations to Jahnavi Mudigonda for receiving an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship
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