{"628136":{"#nid":"628136","#data":{"type":"news","title":"King of Hearts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMick Jagger\u0026nbsp;owes some thanks for the fact he\u0026rsquo;s alive and strutting to \u003Cstrong\u003EAjit Yoganathan\u003C\/strong\u003E and his lab crew. In fact, millions of people do.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe rock icon received a replacement heart valve in the spring of 2019 in a New York City hospital, and Yoganathan has led the testing of every prosthetic heart valve design on the U.S. market for safety and effectiveness. His Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (CFM Lab) has served as a valve approval site for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for four decades.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYoganathan invented the science of prosthetic heart valve engineering in that lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1979. It is his\u0026nbsp;signal achievement,\u0026nbsp;and the primary reason for\u0026nbsp;his 2015\u0026nbsp;induction into the National Academy of Engineering. He and his fellow lab members have had a profound influence on prosthetic valve design \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;including the advanced model in Jagger\u0026rsquo;s chest.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor surgeons and researchers seeking a deeper understanding of how the heart pumps blood and how to fix it when the flow goes wrong, Yoganathan and the\u0026nbsp;CFM Lab\u0026nbsp;crew are bigger icons than the Rolling Stones.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/features\/king-hearts\u0022\u003EFor the full Georgia Tech Research Horizons story: Meet \u0026#39;Dr. Y\u0026#39;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mick Jagger owes some thanks for the fact he\u2019s alive and strutting to Ajit Yoganathan and his lab crew"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2019-10-28 14:22:37","changed_gmt":"2019-10-28 14:30:39","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628133":{"id":"628133","type":"image","title":"Ajit Yoganathan","body":null,"created":"1572272293","gmt_created":"2019-10-28 14:18:13","changed":"1572278614","gmt_changed":"2019-10-28 16:03:34","alt":"Ajit Yoganathan,\u00a0Regents Professor at Georgia Tech and Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering\u00a0at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u00a0","file":{"fid":"239200","name":"Dr. Y.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dr.%20Y.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dr.%20Y.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":98986,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dr.%20Y.jpg?itok=Gu3rjkOX"}}},"media_ids":["628133"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"126571","name":"go-PetitInstitute"},{"id":"1612","name":"BME"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["wrich@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}