News

2009:

Holding Frame, Dr. Robin Luo, Distinguished Professor of National Cheng Kung University, Instrumentation Chip Group, Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University and Dr. Yoram Rudy.

• Professor Yoram Rudy, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, delivered the Tawara Lecture “Cardiac Excitation and Arrhythmia in the Human Heart: Insights from Noninvasive ECG Imaging (ECGI” at the International Congress of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) in Kyoto, Japan, on July 30^th, 2009. From August 2^nd – 13^th, Professor Rudy presented a series of invited lectures in Taiwan at the following universities: National Taiwan University in Taipei, National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Providence University and National Chung Hsing Universities in Taichung. On August 2nd at a National Workshop, National Cheng Kung University celebrated the 18 year anniversary of the publication of the Luo-Rudy model of the cardiac cell.

• "Congratulations!" to Subham Ghosh (left) and Yong Wang (right) who defended successfully (more accurately, passed with flying colors…..) their Ph.D. Theses; Subham – May 19, Yong – June 11.

• Tom Hund, an alum of the Rudylab (Ph.D. 2004) won the 2008 Early-Career Authors Prize, designed to recognize outstanding papers published by early-career authors in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. The award publication is: T.J. Hund, K.F. Decker, E. Kanter, P.J. Mohler, P.A. Boyden, R.B. Schuessler, K. A. Yamada, Y. Rudy, “Role of activated CaMKII in abnormal calcium homeostasis and I_Na remodeling after myocardial infarction: Insights from mathematical modeling”,  J of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 2008;45:420-428.

  

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2008:

• In  August 2008, Dr. Rudy participated in a symposium “CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS AND SUDDEN DEATH: FROM GENES TO PREVENTION” at the Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute of Cape Town University in South Africa. He presented two invited talks about the molecular basis of cardiac repolarization, and about Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) of cardiac arrhythmias. The photograph below was taken by Dr. Rudy at the Cape Town waterfront.

• Dr. Rudy was selected as the Hein J.J. Wellens Distinguished Professor in Cardiology at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. Professor Rudy will conduct workshops on cardiac electrophysiology at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM) during September 2008 and May 2009. He will also host visiting scientists from Maastricht University in his laboratory as part of a CBAC – CARIM collaboration in heart research

• The Winter 2007 issue of OUTLOOK, the Washington University School of Medicine magazine, featured the research conducted in Dr. Rudy's laboratory. A link to the article (a PDF file) is provided on the magazine cover page below:

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