Research Focus
The arrhythmia program focuses its research on the molecular mechanisms of malignant cardiac arrhythmias using a myriad of in vivo and in vitro experimental research models. The in vivo models include congenital long QT syndrome and atrial arrhythmias in rabbits, atrial and ventricular arrhythmias in pulmonary hypertension models, mouse knockout models of proteins that participate in cell-cell interactions as well as ubiquitin ligases. The in vitro models include experimental heart tissues such as iPS derived atrial organoids as well as micro tissues of ventricular myocytes as cultured of primary myocytes derived from rabbits, rats and mice.