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Call for abstracts and upcoming presentations
- Heart Failure Society of America, submission deadline April 7, 2008
- Experimental Biology, April, 2008
- Heart Rhythm Society, May, 2008
- Biomedical Engineering Society, September, 2008
- American Heart Association, November, 2008
News
- March 27, 2008, Vadim Fedorov was awarded Beginning Grant-in-Aid from the Midwest Affiliate of the American Heart Association to study low-voltage atrial defibrillation. Funding period 07/01/2008-06/30/2010.
- March 7, 2008, Igor Efimov was promoted to full Professor of Biomedical Engineering. New appointment starts July 1, 2008.
- February 11, 2008, Igor Efimov received 12.7% percentile for NIH R01 grant application HL085369 "Structure/function of the Pacemaker and Conduction System of the Heart". Funding period 07/01/2008-06/30/2013.
- February 1, 2008, Crystal Ripplinger defended PhD thesis and was awareded Doctor of Phylosophy degree [picture][picture][picture][picture][picture] and moved to Harvard as a postdoc in Kit Parker's Lab
- November 8, 2007 William J. Hucker defended PhD thesis and was awared Doctor of Phylosophy degree and returned back to Washington University Medical School to continue his Md/PhD training
- November 14, 2007 Karl Zelik defended his MS thesis and moved to Ann Arbor to pursue his PhD
- March 18-23, 2007, Igor Efimov chaired the 3rd Gordon Research Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms.
- January 8 2007, Igor Efimov was the Speaker for
Bioengineering Leaders Seminar Series in the Department of
Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, “New
approaches to device therapy of cardiac arrhythmias:
insights from optical imaging”
- December 2006, Igor Efimov received 6.4%
percentile from the American Heart Association review panel
for Grant-in-Aid application "Structure of the human AV
junction". Funding period 01-01-2007 : 12-31-2008.
- November, 2006. Igor Efimov received 8.8%
percentile for NIH R01 grant application HL67322 "Virtual
Electrode Hypothesis of Defibrillation". Funding period:
04-01-2007 : 03-31-2012.
- April 10, 2006, Crystal Ripplinger won 2nd prize in
graduate student competition of BME day at Washington
University.
- April 4, 2006, William Hucker was the runner-up for the
Langman Award, which "recognizes the best scientific paper
presented by a graduate student at Experimental Biology
2006". His work was titled: “A multi-imaging approach to
study the structure and function of the atrioventricular
junction.”
- April 4, 2006, Vadim Fedorov, Ph.D, was the runner-up
for the Presley-Zeiss Postdoctoral Fellow Award, which
recognizes the best scientific paper presented by a
Postdoctoral Fellow at Experimental Biology 2006 for
excellence in research using light and/or electron
microscopy. His work was titled: "Functional and structural
optical imagining of the rabbit sinoatrial node"
- March 20, 2007, Fujian Qu, D.Sc. has successfully
defended D.Sc. thesis "Imaging Cardiac Arrhythmias and
Antiarrhythmia Electrotherapy in the Rabbit Heart ".
- March 13-17, 2007, Igor Efimov visited Oxford University
and delivered Astor Visiting Fellow's Lecture "Towards
painless defibrillation: virtual electrode theory of
electrical stimulation of the heart" in the Department for
Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.
- August, 24, 2005. Igor Efimov has been selected to receive the
Chancellor's Hartwell Prize for Innovative research. This
project will focus on Low-voltage Defibrillation - A New
Paradigm.
- July 1, 2005. Crystal Ripplinger was awarded an American Heart
Association Predoctoral Fellowship to study low-voltage
unpinning and termination of reentrant arrhythmias. The
specific aims of this research will involve investigating the
mechanisms that cause a reentrant arrhythmia to pin in a
particular location, characterizing virtual electrodes created
at these locations, and optimizing a low-voltage algorithm to
unpin and terminate reentrant arrhythmias. The fellowship was
awarded by the Heartland Affiliate of the AHA with a
percentile rank of 1.06! This research has been already
highlighted in the media:
"New Concept in Cardiac Defibrillators Could be More Comfortable..."
"Next generation of heart defibrillators may be small, implantable"
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Disrupting the 'heart's tornado' in arrhythmia"
,
"Defibrillators
get less shocking" and
"Physics for ER"
Recent publications highlighted on the cover page of
peer-reviewed journals: Fedorov VV, Li L, Glukhov
A, Shishkina I, Aliev RP, Mikheeva T, Nikolski VP, Rosenshtraukh LV,
Efimov IR. Hibernator Citellus undulatus maintains safe
cardiac conduction and is protected against tachyarrhythmias during
extreme hypothermia: possible role of Cx43 and Cx45 upregulation.
Heart Rhythm., 2005, 2(9): 966-75. [Cover
page].
Rodriguez B, Li L, Eason JC, Efimov IR, Trayanova NA.
Differences Between Left and Right Ventricular Chamber Geometry
Affect Cardiac Vulnerability to Electric Shocks. Circ Res. 2005;
97(2): 168-75. [Cover
page]
Rothenberg F, Nikolski VP, Watanabe M, Efimov IR.
Electrophysiology and anatomy of embryonic rabbit hearts before and
after septation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol.
2005; 288: H344-H351. [Cover
page]
Articles in the media
Efimov I., Senichev Y., Figovski O., Avdulov N., Popov O., Kalinichev A, Necessity of Science, Moscow News, 1999, 2: 17. (in Russian)
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Efimov, I.R. Is it Possible to Overcome the Crisis in Russian Science, Vestnik RFFI (Herald of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research), 2000, 1(19). (in Russian)
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Efimov, I.R., Pandora's box for humanity, Moscow News, August 15-21, 2000, 32: 18. (in Russian)
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Efimov, I.R., Letters from Far Away. City and Citizens, April 19, 2001, 30: 6-7 (My autobiography in Russian)
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