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 Biomedical Engineering and a Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. [1] She directs the Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation [2]

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Early life and education

Trayanova's father was a physiologist and director of the Biophysics Institute in Bulgaria. [3] Her mother was a professor of economics. [3] She studied physics at Sofia University, graduating in 1982. [4] She earned a PhD from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1986, where she studied skeletal muscle fibre trans-membrane potential [4]

Research and career

After completing her Ph.D., Trayanova moved to the United States to pursue an academic career in biomedical engineering. In 1986, she joined Duke University as a researcher working with Professor Robert Plonsey on heart rhythm dysfunction. [3] In 1995 she was appointed associate professor at Tulane University, where she was earned several awards for teaching excellence. [5] [6] Her early forays into heart modeling were pioneering and focused on mechanistic insight into clinically-relevant conditions, but the basic-science nature of the work failed to capture the interest of clinical researchers and medical professors. [6] In 2002, she was awarded a Fulbright Program Visiting Professorship and spent January through May of 2002 at the University of Oxford. [7]

In 2006, Trayanova was recruited to Johns Hopkins University as a Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Computational Medicine. [8] Her work considers computational simulations of the heart. [9] She was elected a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society and American Heart Association in 2010. [10] [11] 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. [6]

In 2012, she was named the Murray B Sachs Endowed Chair in the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering. [3] In 2013 she was awarded the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award, which allowed her to develop a virtual electrophysiology lab. [12] 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. [12] She has received extensive support from the Maryland Innovation Initiative. [13] In 2019, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, [14] and she also received the 2019 Heart Rhythm Society Distinguished Scientist Award. [15] Also in 2019, she was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. [16]

She is the Chief Scientific Officer of Cardiosolv Ablation Technologies, a start-up that develops computational tools to help the treatment of ventricular tachycardia. [17] She gave a TED talk in 2017 entitled Your Personal Virtual Heart. [18] 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. [19] She was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017. [20] She has been featured on Reddit AMA r/science, [21] has been interviewed by the BBC, NPR, the Economist, and has been on the Amazing Things Podcast. [22]

References

  1. ↑ "JHU BME - Natalia Trayanova".
  2. ↑ "Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation" . Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Natalia Trayanova on Developing Computer Simulations of Hearts". Archived from the original on 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  4. 1 2 "Natalia Trayanova, PhD | Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering". Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering. Archived from the original on 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  5. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#9709754 - Mathematical Sciences/GIG: Computational Science in Biomedical Systems". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  6. 1 2 3 Conversations about challenges in computing. Tveito, Aslak, 1961-, Bruaset, A. M. (Are Magnus). Cham. 2013-07-08. ISBN   9783319002095. OCLC   853073413.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ↑ "Natalia Trayanova Fulbright Profile".
  8. ↑ "JHU – Institute for Computational Medicine | Two New Faculty Appointments at the Institute for Computational Medicine". icm.jhu.edu. 6 June 2006. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  9. ↑ Johns Hopkins University (2015-02-10), Natalia Trayanova - Computational Simulations of the Heart , retrieved 2018-06-11
  10. ↑ "Trayanova recognized by AHA | Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering". Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  11. ↑ "Natalia A. Trayanova, M.S., Ph.D." Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  12. 1 2 "Natalia Trayanova Receives 2013 NIH Director's Pioneer Award | Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering". Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. 2013-09-30. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  13. ↑ "MII Award Projects | Tedco". tedco.md. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  14. ↑ "WIT 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees" . Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  15. ↑ "Heart Rhythm Society 2019 Award Winners" . Retrieved 2019-05-31.[ permanent dead link ]
  16. ↑ "National Academy of Inventors Announces 2019 Fellows" . Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  17. ↑ "Team | CardioSolv". cardiosolv.com. Archived from the original on 2022-03-05. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  18. ↑ TEDx Talks (2017-07-18), Your Personal Virtual Heart | Natalia Trayanova | TEDxJHU , retrieved 2018-06-11
  19. ↑ "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.
  20. ↑ "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. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  21. ↑ "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.
  22. ↑ "Natalia Trayanova: Using a Personalized, Virtual Heart to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death". www.amazingthingspodcast.com. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
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