About Our Lab
Lab Members
Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Section Chief, Interventional Cardiology
Medical Director, Cardiovascular Catheterization Lab
Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cardiovascular Biology and Biomechanics Laboratory
Instructor
Research Interests: Tissue mechanics, Computational mechanics, Medical devices
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Quantum Mechanics, and biomechanics
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Imaging, Coronary biology, pathophysiology and biomechanics
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Coronary biomechanics, angioplasty and stenting of complex coronary lesions, Pathophysiology of atherosclerotic disease and advanced techniques for cardiac imaging
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Interventional Cardiology, Atherosclerosis pathophysiology, Coronary biomechanics, bifurcation stenting, non-invasive Cardiology and evidence-based medicine
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Interventional Cardiology, Bifurcation Stenting, and Cardiomyopathies
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Cardiovascular imaging, 3-D cardiac visualizations, Atherosclerosis, Conduction system pacing, Arrhythmia prevention and treatment
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Pathology-Cell biology
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Stenting, Vascular Biology, Cardiovascular Imaging, Non-Invasive Cardiac Procedures, Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
Interventional Cardiology Fellow
Research Interests: Interventional cardiology, Coronary artery atherosclerosis, Coronary invasive hemodynamics, Techniques of coronary interventions and structural heart disease
Collaborators
- Devendra K. Agrawal, PhD
Clinical and translational science
Cellular, molecular and immunological basis of the underlying pathophysiology of occlusive arterial diseases in carotid and coronary artery, artery-venous fistula, rotator cuff injury, ventral hernia, and chronic asthma; gene and stem cell therapy. - Gassan Kassab, PhD
Biomedical engineer, founder and CEO, California Medical Innovations Institute
Biomedical engineering, hypertension, interventional cardiology devices. - Iraklis Pipinos, MD, PhD
Vascular surgeon
Mitochondrial dysfunction in chronically ischemic skeletal muscle, open versus endovascular repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms, carotid stenting, walking impairment in claudication. - Irving H. Zucker, PhD
Cardiovascular physiology
Neural control of the circulation, angiotensin II, nitric oxide; reactive oxidant stress. - Benjamin Terry, PhD
Biomedical engineering and medical devices
Medical therapeutics, devices, and surgical tools; intuitive, ambulatory biosensors; biomechanical behavior of tissues and organs. - Srivatsan Kidambi, PhD
Chemical engineering
Neural and liver tissue engineering, cancer tissue engineering, nano-scale drug delivery system for gene therapy, novel thin films for sensor applications. - Marius Florescu, MD
Nephrology - James A. Hamilton, PhD
Physiology and biophysics
Membrane and structural biology, Imaging of fat depots and atherosclerotic plaque, Atherosclerosis: magnetic resonance imaging and NMR spectroscopy. - Timothy Wei, PhD
Fluid mechanics
Coupling fundamental fluid dynamics experiments with critical technologies of socio-technological importance. - Sangjin Ryu, PhD
Bio/flow systems
Multiscale flow systems and biological systems based on interdisciplinary experimental approaches, fluid flow at finite Reynolds numbers, microfluidics. - Ryan Pedrigi, PhD
Biomedical engineering
Mechanobiology, experimental and computational biomechanics, regenerative medicine, cell and tissue engineering, medical devices, cardiovascular medicine, ophthalmology, and wound healing. - Jae Sung Park, PhD
Fluid mechanics
Fluid mechanics, turbulence, complex fluids, electrokinetics, microscale transport, mathematical modeling, scientific computing. - Peter R. Pellegrino, PhD
Cellular and integrative physiology
Physiological control of blood flow by neural and autoregulatory mechanisms, novel methods of assessment of sympathetic nervous system outflow, anesthesiology and critical care.
Funding Organizations
