Projects

Development of chemically defined and high yield strategies for the differentiation of hiPSCs into functional cardiomyocytes, and their characterization for potential therapeutic applications.

Investiagtion of the mechanisms behind the cardiotoxic side effects of anti-cancer therapies, in special monoclonal antibodies such as trastuzumab and tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Studies on the regulation of mitochondrial function and mitochondrial structure as function of ECM rigidity, composition, and tissue architecture in engineered cardiac myocytes.

Development of image analysis algorithms focusing on image registration and segmentation to perform phenotype classification of different fat-fraction MR images.

Development of algorithms to reconstruct temporal-accelerated spiral Fourier velocity encoded (FVE) MRI using 3D SPIRiT and different temporal acceleration approaches.

Development of algorithms to reconstruct spiral Fourier velocity encoded MRI data using parallel imaging, especially 2D SPIRiT.

Development of image processing algorithms to be applied on color calibration between different devices, and scene classification.