Check out this new paper from the Cardiac Systems Simulation (CardSS) Lab! This is the first product from our NIH R21-funded project in machine learning-based prediction of heart disease risk in survivors of childhood cancer. Thank you to our incredible collaborators, especially Dr. Lindsay Edwards at Duke in pediatric cardiology and Dr. Eric Chow at the Fred Hutch, our expert in cancer survivorship! Most importantly, congratulations to CardSS Lab team member Dr. Surbhi Sharma and lab alumna Zih-Hua Chen (MS…
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Congratulations to CardSS Lab 2024 Graduates from the UW Bioengineering Department!
Today, our department held its annual graduation ceremony. We are delighted to share that FIVE members of the CardSS Lab were honored: Issac Kim, B.S. (expected), B.A. (intended), who will be staying in the lab to pursue a BS/MS degree Jamie Yang, B.S. (expected), who will be heading to UCSD to pursue her PhD Chelsea Gibbs, B.S., who will be defending her PhD in the Autumn Nicolas Longhi, B.S. (expected), who will be pursuing his BS/MS in UW Genome Sciences…
Izzy Kim is one of this year’s Husky 100!!
We are very proud to share that our longtime lab member Izzy Kim has been awarded the amazing Husky 100 distinction for the 2023-24 academic year! Izzy is a current senior in our undergraduate program and has been a member of the CardSS Lab since November 2021. She established herself as a strong research presence in the lab while working with her initial graduate student mentor (Dr. Savannah Bifulco, who graduated this past summer). For the past year, she has…
New Review on Biomechanics in AFib Published!
We are very proud to share that Dr. Åshild Telle‘s first paper as a member of the lab was published earlier this week in Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy! The title of our review is “Personalized biomechanical insights in atrial fibrillation: opportunities & challenges”. The paper will be available to subscribers via this link. The publisher has provided a second link that will make the paper available to non-subscribers for a limited time, please use this link only if your…
New CardSS Lab Research Explores Feasibility of Optogenetically Suppressing Ectopic Beats
Congratulations to Alex Ochs on the publication of his most recent original research paper as lead-author in the CardSS Lab. The paper appears in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering in a special issue celebrating 2023’s CMBE Young Innovators (including Pat!) [PMCID link here] In this study, we examine how light stimulation of optogenetic proteins might be a feasible way to suppress triggered arrhythmias induced by ectopic cell-scale excitation (early afterdepolarizations). Getting all of the moving pieces to line up for this…
New CardSS Lab Research Published in JAHA: Our First Foray into Explainable ML!
Congratulations to Savannah Bifulco, whose second lead-author original research paper has been published in JAHA. In this study, we use SHAP Analysis (devised brilliantly by CS researchers at our own institution!) to predict the behavior of reentrant activity in computational simulations from geometric features extracted from LGE-MRI alone. Cool beans! Way to go Savannah!