| September 04, 2008 |
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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.
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| August 06, 2008 |
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| 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. |
| August 06, 2008 |
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| 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. |
| April 28, 2008 |
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We are pleased to announce that Jonathan Silva successfully completed his Ph.D. research. The title of his dissertation is: "Linking Molecular Dynamics of Ion Channels to the Cardiac Action Potential:
Simulations of Wild Type and Mutant Iks”.
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| March 31, 2008 |
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| Yoram Rudy, Ph.D., F.A.H.A., F.H.R.S., The Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology & Physiology, Medicine, Radiology, and Pediatrics; Director of the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC) was elected 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 Washington University laboratory as part of a CBAC – CARIM collaboration in heart research. |
| January 25, 2008 |
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The Winter 2007 issue of OUTLOOK, the Washington University School of Medicine magazine, featured the research conducted in our laboratory. A link to the article (a PDF file) is provided on the magazine cover page below:
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Click the image above to view the article |
| December 18, 2007 |
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| Charulatha Ramanathan and Ping Jia, co-founders of CardioInsight Technologies, were elected by CARIN'S Cleveland Business to " 2007 forty under 40". CardioInsight is developing Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) as a clinical diagnostic tool. Charu and Ping are former Ph.D. students in the Rudy Lab. An article about Charu and Ping in
CARIN'S Cleveland Business
can be found at http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20071119/FORTY07/71030041/1124/FREE |
| November 26 , 2007 |
Leonid Livshitz participated in the 4th International Symposium of Cell/Biodynamics Simulation Project. The symposium took place in Kyoto, Japan, November 12-13, 2007. He also delivered an invited presentation “Regulation of calcium and electrical alternans in cardiac myocytes” in the department of Physics of Kyoto University,
November 15, 2007 and the department of Bio-Medical Eng. in Technion, Israel institute of Technology, Haifa, November 25, 2007.
To see selected photos, please go to the Photo Album. |
| September 24 , 2007 |
Yoram Rudy participated in a Workshop on Regulation of Transport Phenomena in the Cardiac System. The workshop took place in Antalya, Turkey, September 16-20, 2007.
To see selected photos, please go to the Photo Album. |
| October 8, 2007 |
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| Yoram Rudy is the President of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society (CES) for 2007-08. In this capacity, he organizes the annual scientific sessions for these years. The 2007 meeetings is in Orlando, Florida, November 3rd. The program topic is "Calcium Cycling: The Arrhythmia Connection"; the
entire program can be viewed on http://www.cardiaceps.org/ |
| September 20, 2007 |
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| The paper "Application of the Method of Fundamental Solutions to Potential-based Inverse Electrocardiography" by Yong Wang and Yoram Rudy had been chosen as the Outstanding Original Paper for 2006 in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. The award carries a prise of $1500 that will be used to support Yong Wang (a Ph.D. student in the Rudy Lab) travel to a scientific meeting of his choice. |
| August 22, 2007 |
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| Yoram Rudy organized and chaired a workshop on "Systems Approach to Understanding Electromechanical Activity in the Human Heart" at the NIH-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute(Washington D.C., August 20-21, 2007). Workshop participants were 13 leading scientists in cardiac research. The workshop objectives were to discuss the state-of-the-art and identify challenges of intergrating knowledge from the molecular and cellular scales to the whole-heart level, where cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure occur. The workshop participants have developed a list of recommendations for future research directions and NIH-NHLBI support. An executive summary of the workshop and recommendations is avaliable on the NHLBI website: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/meetings/workshops/electro.htm. |
| March 24, 2007 |
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| Leonid Livshitz won the first prize at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms, Ventura Beach, California, March 18 – 23, 2007.
His poster was entitled "Regulations of Calcium and Electrical Alternans in Cardiac Myocytes: Role of CaMKII and Repolarizing Currents". Here is the poster(PDF format, 760KB). |
| December 28, 2006 |
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| Thomas O'Hara received his M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering of Washington University in St. Louis. |
| October 18, 2006 |
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| Dr. Yoram Rudy has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology (ISCE) for the term 2006-2007. He was also a member of the Executive Scientific Board, as well as chaired a session at, the 8th International Dead Sea Symposium and the Rappaport Symposium, “Consensus and Controversy in Cardiac Arrhythmias”, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 2006. |
| October 11, 2006 |
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| Charu Ramanathan and Ping Jia, our former PhD students, established CardioInsight Technologies, a startup company for developing Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) as a clinical diagnostic tool for cardiac arrhythmias. For detail information, please view CardioInsight press release. |
| October 10, 2006 |
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We are pleased to announce that Gregory Faber successfully completed his Ph.D. research. The title of his dissertation is:
"A Model of L-type Ca2+ Channel - Ryanodine Receptor Interaction in the Restricted Space in a Cardiac Ventricular Myocyte”.
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| October 9, 2006 |
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| Congratulations to Lina El-Esber who received The Dr. Yoram Rudy Scholarship for the 2006-2007 academic year . Contributors to this scholarship fund are Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Brasch. |
May-June, 2006
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Yoram Rudy, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Director of the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC), delivered in June, 2006 two keynote presentations describing his work on noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging at the annual meetings of the International Society for Heart Research (Manchester, UK) and the International Congress on Electrocardiology (Cologne, Germany).
Professor Rudy also delivered an invited presentation at Cardiostim - World Congress in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiac Techniques (Nice, France) on the role of potassium ion channels in cardiac repolarization and its dependence on the channels' molecular structure.
In May, he participated as faculty in a Medtronic workshop for new leaders in cardiology and electrophysiology. |
| 5/12/2006 |
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The first inaugural Cardiac Bioelectricity & Arrhythmia Center (CBAC) Research Retreat was held on Friday, May 12, 2006 in Whitaker Hall at Washington University. For more detail information, please visit CBAC website http://cbac.wustl.edu/pageEducationRetreat.asp.
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| 2/20/2006 |
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| Yoram Rudy delivered the Keynote Presentation “Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI): a new noninvasive imaging modality for cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmia” at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference in San Diego, February 11-16, 2006. Yoram also delivered an invited plenary presentation “Modeling Cardiac Arrhythmias” at a Keystone Symposium on Cardiac Arrhythmias: Linking Structural Biology to Gene Defects in Tahoe City, California, January 29-February 3, 2006. |
| 2/10/2006 |
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| Raja Ghanem is a winner of the Heart Rhythm Journal Outstanding Publication Award for Yong Electrophysiologists for the paper “Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI): Comparison to Intraoperative Mapping in Patients” Heart Rhythm Journal 2005;2:339-354, by R.N. Ghanem, P. Jia, C. Ramanathan, K. Ryu, A. Markowitz, and Y. Rudy. This paper reports on work conducted as part of Raja’s Ph.D. Dissertation in our laboratory. Congratulations Raja! |
| 18/11/2005 |
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| Charu Ramanathan presented an abstract “Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging of Normal Human Activation and Repolarization” in the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Dallas, Nov. 2005. |
| 18/11/2005 |
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| Greg Faber presented an abstract “Calsequestrin Mutation Results in Spontaneous Calcium Release and Delayed Afterdepolarizations in a Model of the Cardiac Ventricular Myocyte” in the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Dallas, Nov. 2005. |
| 12/10/2005 |
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| Dr. Yoram Rudy was recently featured in the faculty profile section of Record. (Washington University / Record) |
| 11/10/2005 |
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| Visiting scientist Professor Andras Varro (University of Szeged, Hungary) , Tom O'Hara and Dr. Yoram Rudy (seated left to right) meet in the lab conference room to discuss efforts in our ongoing research collaboration. |
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| 10/11/2005 |
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| Dr. Yoram Rudy Ph.D., F.A.H.A., The Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering, delivered the Kazuo Yamada Lecture titled “Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia” to the Japanese Society of Electrocardiology in Toyama, Japan on October 7, 2005. He also conducted a workshop on the molecular and genetic basis of cardiac arrhythmias in Nagoya, Japan on October 10, 2005. |
| 10/10/2005 |
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Congratulations to Lina El-Esber who received The Dr. Yoram Rudy Scholarship for the 2005-2006 academic year [contributors to this scholarship fund are Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Brasch]. Lina is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University; she works on her Ph.D. thesis in our laboratory.
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| 05/27/2005 |
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Presentation on "Research Towards Understanding and Preventing Irregular Heart Rhythms and Sudden Death" given by Dr. Yoram Rudy to the Technion Chapter of St. Louis.
Here are the movies (part1 and part2) of the presentation. To download and install the free DivX Player, please visit this Website . |
| 03/17/2005 |
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Dr. Yoram Rudy was The Reynolds Visiting Professor at the Reynolds Center for Cardiovascular Research, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University. Yoram presented recent work on Electrocardiographic Imaging in humans. |
| 02/25/2005 |
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Jonathan Silva won first place in the research competition at the Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms (Buellton, California, February 20-25). The title of his poster was “Molecular Interactions Determine Effects of Iks on the Cardiac Action Potential: Modulation by KCNE1 and Chromanol 293b”. Subham Ghosh was a third- place winner with the poster “Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) of Cardiac Electrophysiology in Humans” – congratulations to both.
In the same meeting, Leonid Livshitz presented a poster on “Interactive Tool for Cell Model Simulation” and Thomas Hund on “Altered Calcium-Handling and Electrophysiological Remodeling in Cells from Infarcted Myocardium”. Dr. Yoram Rudy gave a talk on “Modeling the Electrophysiological Consequences of Sodium Channel Dysfunction”. |
| 02/02/2005 |
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An article in the Record titled "New math model of heart cell has novel calcium pathway" describes a recent Circulation paper by Thomas Hund and Yoram Rudy.
(Washington University / Record) |
| 11/30/2004 |
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| We have recently published a new model of the canine cardiac ventricular cell that includes the CaMKII regulatory pathway of calcium cycling. The paper resulted from Tom Hund's Ph.D. Thesis and was published in Circulation 2004; 110:3168-3174. |
| 11/22/2004 |
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Installation of Dr. Yoram Rudy as the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering |
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(Washington University / Record)
(Washington University / School of Medicine / New & Information)
(Washington University / Engineering Alumni)
(Movie of the ceremony) |
| 04/22/2004 |
| An article named "Beyond the EKG, to a Hypersensitive Heart Monitor" was published in the New York Times describing our Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI). |
