Natalia Trayanova

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Natalia Trayanova
Alma mater Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia University
Scientific career
Institutions Johns Hopkins University

University of Oxford
Tulane University

Duke University

Natalia Trayanova is a Bulgarian physicist who is a professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She directs the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation [1]

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Early life and education

Trayanova's father was a physiologist and director of the Biophysics Institute in Bulgaria. [2] Her mother was a professor of economics. [2] She studied physics at Sofia University, graduating in 1982. [3] Her father gave her a copy of Robert Plonsey's book, Bioelectric Phenomena, and Trayanova realised she could use her physics expertise in biology. [2] She earned a PhD from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1986, where she studied skeletal muscle fibre biopotentials [3]

Research and career

In 1986 Trayanova joined Duke University working with Robert Plonsey on rhythmic dysfunction in the heart. [2] In 1995 she was appointed associate professor at Tulane University, where she was awarded the several awards for teaching excellence. [4] [5] She began to develop computer models for the heart but found that the cardiologists were not enthusiastic about computer modelling. [5] After Hurricane Katrina, several research institutions asked Trayanova to relocate and join them. [5] She was awarded a Fulbright Program Visiting Professorship and spent several months at the University of Oxford.

In 2006 Trayanova was recruited to Johns Hopkins University as a Professor in the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Science. [6] Her work considers computational simulations of the heart. [7] She was elected a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society and American Heart Association in 2010. [8] [9] In 2011 she developed a computational framework that allowed virtual drug screening, simulating the drug-channel interactions and predicting the impact of drugs on electrical activity of the heart. [5]

In 2012 she was named the Murray B Sachs Endowed Chair in Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Department. [2] In 2013 she was awarded the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, which allowed her to develop a virtual electrophysiology lab. [10] The award gave her $2.5 million over five years to develop patient-specific computational models of the heart, allowing for doctors to provide personalised treatment and diagnoses. [10] She has received extensive support from the Maryland Innovation Initiative. [11] In 2019, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, [12] and she also received the 2019 Heart Rhythm Society Distinguished Scientist Award. [13] Also in 2019, she was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. [14]

She is the Chief Scientific Officer of Cardiosolv Ablation Technologies, a start-up that develops computational tools to help the treatment of ventricular tachycardia. [15] She gave a TED talk in 2017 entitled Your Personal Virtual Heart. [16] She was selected by the National Institutes of Health to take part in a briefing at Capitol Hill looking to defend the federal funding of scientific research. [17] She was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017. [18] She has been featured on Reddit AMA r/science, [19] has been interviewed by the BBC, NPR, the Economist, and has been on the Amazing Things Podcast. [20]

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  1. ↑ "Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation" . Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Natalia Trayanova on Developing Computer Simulations of Hearts". Archived from the original on 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
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  4. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#9709754 - Mathematical Sciences/GIG: Computational Science in Biomedical Systems". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
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  13. ↑ "Heart Rhythm Society 2019 Award Winners" . Retrieved 2019-05-31.[ permanent dead link ]
  14. ↑ "National Academy of Inventors Announces 2019 Fellows" . Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  15. ↑ "Team | CardioSolv". cardiosolv.com. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
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  17. ↑ "JHU – Institute for Computational Medicine | Natalia Trayanova visits Capitol Hill in Support of NIH Funding". icm.jhu.edu. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  18. ↑ "BME's Natalia Trayanova elected as a Fellow of IAMBE | Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering". Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  19. ↑ "Science AMA Series: I'm Natalia Trayanova, a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Johns Hopkins University. I create virtual hearts to diagnose and treat patients with heart rhythm disorders. AMA!". www.reddit.com. 2 April 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
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