Announcements

• Congratulations to Namit Gaur, a PhD student and Dr. Alan Desouza, a Postdoctoral fellow, both conducting research in professor Yoram Rudy’s lab; they received fellowships from the American Heart Association to continue their research on cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms.

• Drs. Yoram Rudy and Leonid Livshitz were awarded a $ 294,621 three year grant award from the National Science Foundation for the project "Modeling Spatial Organization of Cardiac Cell Function: Application to Calcium Waves and Arrhythmia".

• Dr. Yoram Rudy was awarded a $ 1,898,718 four year grant award from the NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for his Cardiac Excitation and Arrhythmias project. Research under this grant will continue the study of mechanisms that underlie cardiac excitation and arrhythmia at the molecular, cellular, and tissue levels using a multi-scale modeling approach.Read more about this project on the Rudylab website.

• Dr. Yoram Rudy was awarded a $271,356 five year grant from Fondation Leducq, an organization whose mission is to improve human health through international efforts to combat cardiovascular disease through the Alliance for Calmodulin Kinase II Signaling in Heart Disease.

• Dr. Yoram Rudy was awarded a $1,362,285 four year grant, (years 24-27 of a merit award to Dr. Rudy) from the NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for his Inverse and Forward Problems in Electrocardiography project. Research under this grant will continue the development of Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI), a novel noninvasive imaging modality for Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia. Read more about this project on the Rudylab website.

• Thomas O'Hara was awarded two-year grant from the Predoctoral Fellowship Program of the Midwest Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association for his "Mathematical Model of Human Cardiac Ventricular Action Potential" project.