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Silva Lab @ WUSTL

Current Lab Members

Dr. Jon Silva

Principal Investigator

Jon Silva CV Assistant Professor Program leader, Cardiovascular Engineering Graduate …

Eve Angsutararux

Graduate Student

Eve joined the lab in 2017. She will be working on molecular-complex interactions with the …

Kate Mangold

Graduate Student

Kate joined the lab in 2017. She is studying state-dependent models of Na+ channel function.

Michael Southworth

Michael Southworth earned a B.S. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley in 2007,  and from the Johns …

Taylor Voelker

Research Technician II

Wandi Zhu

Graduate Student

Wandi joined the lab in 2014. She is currently focused on studying how Nav β subunits alter Na+ …

Our Motivation

Cardiac arrhythmias are often caused at the molecular level by genetic mutations or drugs that affect the heart rhythm. While molecules interact at nanometer and nanosecond time-scales, the heart beat travels over centimeters over seconds. Bridging this time and spatial scale gap is a primary barrier to understanding arrhythmia and developing therapies.

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
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