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ncements (july 2015- July 2016)

In the News

Arye Nehorai, PhD, the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor of Electrical Engineering, The Preston M.
Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, and his team have developed the first 3-D
multiscale mathematical model of the electrophysiology of a woman’s uterus contractions as they begin
from a single cell to the myometrium, or uterine tissue, into the uterus. Link: https://source.wustl.
edu/2016/05/researchers-create-first-mathematical-model-uterine-contractions/

Medtronic acquired CardioInsight Technologies, developer of a clinical noninvasive imaging system,
called ECGI, for noninvasive mapping of the electrical activity of the heart and cardiac arrhythmias.
ECGI was developed in Professor Yoram Rudy’s laboratory with support from the NIH – National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute. Link: https://www.radcliffecardiology.com/gallery/new-insights-
mechanisms-human-cardiac-arrhythmias-interview-yoram-rudy
Jonathan Silva, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering received a two-year,
$154,000 grant from the American Heart Association to take a close look at the changes at the
molecular level in the heart that are behind the Brugada Syndrome - a genetic mutation behind the
second-leading cause of death in Southeast Asian males under age 40. Link: https://engineering.wustl.
edu/news/Pages/Heart-of-the-matter-Silva-studying-genetic-mutations-.aspx

New Positions

Martin Arthur, PhD, Newton R. and Sarah Louisa Glasgow Wilson Professor of Engineering as of July
2016, is now Interim Department Chair of The Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems
Engineering, succeeding Arye Nehorai.
Happy one year anniversaries to:

• Maria S. Remedi, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology &
Physiology, Department of Medicine;

• Amit Noheria, MBBS, SM, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of
Medicine in the Cardiovascular Division and

• Scott Marrus, MD, PhD, Research Assistant Professor., Department of
Electrical and Systems.

Notables

Amit Noheria, MBBS, SM won 2nd Prize, Jeopardy at Heart Rhythm Society’s ABIM Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Board Review Course, Chicago, IL. on August 19, 2015.

Wandi Zhu, PhD student in Jonathan Silva's lab, won the best poster award at the Washington University School of
Medicine's Cardiovascular Research Day on Friday, October 23, 2015. Her poster title was, "How mutations to the
Nav β1 and β3 subunits cause Atrial Fibrillation and alter the Nav1.5 responses to anti-arrhythmics. Jonathan Silva,
PhD received the award for Best Translational Poster at the annual Joseph "Bo" Koster Memorial Symposium hosted
by the Center for the Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases (CIMED), Washington University in St. Louis on
May 25, 2016.

Charu Ramanathan, PhD, alumna of Yoram Rudy's lab, inducted into Medtronic Inc.'s Bakken Society on August 25,
2016.
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