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Dr. Ramaswamy has been awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) Grant!  The grant, entitled “Bioscaffold mitral valve replacement permitting somatic growth and remodeling” focuses on a promising strategy to treat critical congenital mitral heart valve disease in young children using a regenerative approach. Due to sizing limitations and an inability of an artificial heart valve to grow with the child, the study uses a “bioscaffold” valve assembled from tissues derived from the small intestine which permits the patient’s own cells to infiltrate the scaffold to secrete new living tissue, which has the potential for growth.   The focus of the study is to use as little of the bioscaffold as possible and subsequently assess how well the valves can grow over a year in the mitral position in an animal model.  Dr. Ramaswamy is a Fellow of the AHA and its Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences.  Key partners on this grant are a clinical team from Joe Dimaggio’s Children’s hospital, Hollywood FL (Dr. Frank Scholl MD, Dr, Steven Bibevski MD and Dr. Lilliam Valdes-Cruz MD) and a Veterinary team at the Mannheimer Foundation, Homestead, FL (Dr. Pablo Morales DVM and Dr. Krishna Rivas-Wagner DVM).  The award is for $154,000 over 2 years.

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December 15th, 2022

Graduations Fall 2022

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS graduate student lab members, Denise Hsu, Andres Rodrigues and Claudia Iannini, for graduating in the Fall 2022 […]

October 20th, 2022

Full-Length Journal Publication

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS lab alumni, Dr. Brittany Gonzalez, and CV-PEUTICS PhD student Ariadna Herrera, as co-first authors for a manuscript […]

August 16th, 2022

Full-Length Journal Publication

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS PhD student, Denise Hsu as the first author of a manuscript published in the journal, Bioengineering.  The […]

July 5th, 2022

US Patent

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS lab alumni, Dr. Brittany Gonzalez and Mr. Alexander Williams as well as, CV-PEUTICS PhD student Ariadna Herrera […]

June 1st, 2022

Full-Length Journal Publication

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS PhD students, Yih-Mei Lin and Ariadna Herrera who are the 1st and co-authors respectively, for a publication […]

May 23rd, 2022

Full-Length Journal Publication

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS PhD student, Asad Mirza as the first author of a manuscript accepted for publication in the journal, […]

May 5th, 2022

Qualifying Exam

Congratulations to Ariadna Herrera for successfully completing the Biomedical Engineering PhD qualifying exam May 5th, 2022.

March 9th, 2022

Biomedical Engineering Department’s Graduate Research Day 2022

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS lab’s PhD student, Yih-Mei Lin, for winning 3rd place in the Poster presentation category in FIU’s Biomedical […]

March 9th, 2022

Biomedical Engineering Department’s Graduate Research Day 2022

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS lab’s PhD student, Ariadna Herrera, for winning 1st place in the Poster presentation category in FIU’s Biomedical […]

March 9th, 2022

Biomedical Engineering Department’s Graduate Research Day 2022

Congratulations to CV-PEUTICS lab’s PhD student, Denise Hsu, for winning 1st place in the Oral presentation category in FIU’s Biomedical […]