CVRTI’s Abhijit Mondal, MS. has been invited to be a Student Associate at the Lassonde New Venture Development Center for the coming academic year (2012-13). The center mentors and assists students/researchers towards determining commercialization potential of technologies coming out of U labs. Students from all backgrounds are competitively selected and receive a partial stipend. They are trained in the various disciplines involved with early stage business development. Mr. Mondal is pursuing his Ph.D. under the direction of Dr. Alonso P. Mo...
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CVRTI's Katie J. Sciuto has received a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship provides a portable stipend for the fellow to use at the institution of his/her choice. The Fellowship is highly competitive and only 10% of applicants receive the award. Ms. Sciuto will pursue her Ph.D. at CVRTI studying the effects transgenic relative to pharmacological modulation plays on the relationship of gap junctions and cardiac electrophysiology in the laboratory of Dr. Steve Poelzing.

Congratulations to CVRTI personel who presented research or contributed to research presented at the 56th annual Biophysical Society meeting in San Diego, CA, Feb 24 through Feb 29 (Presenter and/or CVRTI member):

Rengasayee Veeraraghavan, Joyce Lin, James P. Keener, Steven Poelzing. A Novel Role For Ephaptic Coupling In Cardiac Conduction: An Experimental And Modeling Study

Paul W. Venable, Tyson G. Taylor, Junko Shibayama, Mark Warren, Kenneth W. Spitzer, Alexey V. Zaitsev. Spatial Fourier Transform (SFT) For Robust Detection Of Mitochondria...
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