{"677163":{"#nid":"677163","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and Emory Researchers Win Award for Arrhythmia Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EElectrical signals make the heart \u0026nbsp;contract, but when those normal signals are disturbed, they can develop spiral waves that can lead to dangerous cardiac arrhythmias.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers have received a 2023 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/georgiactsa.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Clinical \u0026amp; Translational Science Alliance\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (CTSA) award. The collaborators received the Team Science Award of Distinction for Early Stage Research for their recent work using live explanted human hearts to better understand arrhythmias.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes multidisciplinary research, with a winning team comprised of Georgia Tech physicists and Emory electrocardiologists and cardiac surgeons. The team is led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/flavio-fenton\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlavio Fenton\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/providers.emoryhealthcare.org\/provider\/Neal+Kumar+Bhatia\/1564482\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeal Kumar Bhatia\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor of medicine at Emory.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe work captures high-resolution visualizations of the spiral waves that create arrhythmias from live human hearts taken from recent transplant patients. This access brings a new understanding to deadly arrhythmias such as tachycardia and fibrillation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis highly interdisciplinary study requires extremely diverse expertise and thus could not be done without a strong collaboration among cardiologists, physicists, and computational scientists,\u201d Fenton said. \u201cThis award recognizes the great partnership we have between Emory and Georgia Tech that has allowed us to investigate live human hearts in the laboratory.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Emory team includes Shahriar Iravanian, M.D.; Michael Burke, M.D.; Faisal M. Merchant, M.D.; Anand D. Shah, M.D.; Mikhael F. El-Chami, M.D.; Mani Daneshmand, M.D.; and David Vega, M.D.\u0026nbsp;The Georgia Tech group consists of School of Computational Science and Engineering Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/elizabeth-cherry\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Cherry\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, physics Research Scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/ilija-uzelac\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIlija Uzelac\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and graduate students Henry Chionuma and Mikael Toye.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis award also acknowledges the potential of these studies for clinical applications and for improving patient treatments,\u201d Fenton said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EElectrical signals make the heart \u0026nbsp;contract, but when those normal signals are disturbed, they can develop spiral waves that can lead to dangerous cardiac arrhythmias. Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers have received a 2023 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/georgiactsa.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Clinical \u0026amp; Translational Science Alliance\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (CTSA) award. The collaborators received the Team Science Award of Distinction for Early Stage Research for their recent work using live explanted human hearts to better understand arrhythmias.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers have received a 2023 Georgia Clinical \u0026 Translational Science Alliance (CTSA) award. 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