2017-present: Columbia University, co-investigator with Dr. Takayama, Dr. Akiyama, Dr. Brown and Dr. Ferrari

Relationship between in-vivo mechanical stress on aortic valve during LVAD support and tissue structure and proteomics.

2015-2017: Columbia University, co-investigator with Dr. Vunjak-Novakovic and Dr. Takayama

Characterization of aortic valve composition and mechanical properties in LVAD patients.

2012: Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

D. Craig Miller, M.D.

Clinical outcomes and analysis of blood flow patterns after valve-sparing aortic root replacement.

2005-2010: Rice University, Bioengineering 

Dr. Grande-Allen, PhD, in collaboration with Dr. Charles Fraser, MD (Texas Children’s Hospital) and Dr. Craig Miller, MD (Stanford University)

Characterizing composition, turnover, and mechanics of extracellular matrix in developing, aging, and pathological valves.

2002-3:  University of California, San Diego, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Molecular Cardiology

Kenneth R. Chien, MD, Ph.D

Quantification of gradients in the heart of alternately spliced isoforms of KChIP2 (protein critical to cardiac conduction, implicated in sudden cardiac death).

2002: University California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry 

Stanley Opella, Ph.D

Utilization of Solid State NMR to study of structure of MerF (critical to Hg detoxification, applications: preventing birth defects and treating cancer).

2001-2: General Atomics, Inertial Fusion Energy

Daniel Goodin, PhD

Development of hi-Z coated targets for use in Inertial Fusion Energy.

2000-1: University of California, San Diego, Department of Chemistry

William S. Allison, PhD

Analysis of enzyme F1-ATPase’s cooperativity and entrapment of ADP using a mutation in the hinge region.