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Silva Lab at Washington University in St. Louis

Precision Medicine for Arrhythmia Patients

We study variant-specific cardiac Na+ channel dynamics to predict patient responses to anti-arrhythmic therapies, allowing for a personalized approach to medicine.

Precision Medicine

Augmented Reality to Help Surgeons See

Jon Silva, PhD and Jennifer Silva, MD are developing a new technology to increase accuracy and safety in the Cardiac Cath Lab at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

New Therapeutic Approach

Welcome to The Silva Lab

The Silva lab uses engineering principles to help heart patients feel better and live longer.  Current projects include developing precision approaches to anti-arrhythmic therapy, creating augmented reality interfaces for surgeons and discovering the basic molecular mechanisms that regulate the heartbeat.

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Common heart ailment target of new WashU Engineering research

Common heart ailment target of new WashU Engineering research

"Jonathan Silva, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, will conduct the research with a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Specifically, Silva and his team will study how small molecules and proteins interact with ion channels in the heart to cause and prevent arrhythmia, when the heart beats too fast, too slow, or is too unstable."

Jonathan Silva PhD

Jonathan Silva PhD

Contact Information:
(314) 935-8837
jonsilva@wustl.edu
Whitaker Hall

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