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Student HighlightsMarch 25, 2010 Trayanova students awarded National Research Service Award
(l-r) Jason Constantino, Dr. Natalia Trayanova, Hermenegild Arevalo. Two students in Dr. Natalia Trayanova's lab have been awarded National Research Service Awards (NRSA) from NHLBI. The fellowships provide up to five years of support for research training.
Hermenegild Arevalo, a fourth-year PhD student, won the award to support his project "Image-based models that predict arrhythmia morphology in
post-infarction hearts." The goal of the project is to examine the ventricular tachycardia
reentrant pattern in the infarcted heart and its dependence on the
morphology of the infarct scar. Hermenegild was born in Manila,
Philippines and earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane
University.
Jason Constantino's research project, "Image-based models of electromechanics in
normal and failing hearts," aims to characterize the relation between
electrical activation and mechanical contraction in normal and failing
hearts under different loading conditions. The new insights gained
from this project are expected to ultimately lead to rational
optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) delivery and
improvement in selection criteria for identifying viable CRT
candidates. Jason, who is also a fourth year PhD student, was born in La Puente,
CA and earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University. Posted: March 25, 2010
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