# Living Heart Project Members

The Living Heart Project connects medical and biomedical experts to bring the vision of virtual twins capable of safely testing new innovations and guiding precise treatments to reality.

(LSH) Who Is Participating in the Living Heart Project?

(LSH) Who is participating in the Living Heart Project?

(LSH) Research

Academic and clinical researchers monitor, evaluate and influence the development of the heart models in a collaborative way as the project progresses. Their suggestions for model refinement, new applications, technological implementation or contributions of model or validation data contribute to the pursuit of realistic simulations capable of reliably replicating clinically observed behavior.

**Current Project Members:**

- [Aswan Heart Center / Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation](https://myf-egypt.org/)
- [Jacob Bortman, Ph.D.](https://bgu.academia.edu/JacobBortman) | Ben Gurion University of Negev
- [Emma Lejeune, Ph.D.](https://www.bu.edu/eng/academics/departments-and-divisions/mechanical-engineering/) | Boston University
- [California Medical Innovations Institute, Inc.](https://www.calmi2.org/)
- [Alessio Gizzi, Ph.D.](https://www.unicampus.it/en/) | Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome
- [Daniel Burkhoff, Ph.D.](https://danielburkhoff.com/) | Cardiovascular Research Foundation
- [Veysel Ödemis, M.D.](https://uol.de/fk6) | Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg
- [Gregor Theilmeier, M.D.](https://uol.de/fk6) | Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg
- [Sang-Eui Lee, Ph.D.](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sang-Eui-Lee-3) | Changwon National University
- [Leonid Goubergrits, Ph.D.](https://icm.dhzc.charite.de/en/) | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- [Shizhao Wang, Ph.D.](http://english.imech.cas.cn/sourcedb/faculty/pro/lnm/202311/t20231107_604137.html) | Chinese Academy of Sciences
- [Zdeněk Horák, Ph.D.](https://www.vspj.cz/en/) | College of Polytechnics Jihlava
- [Mathias Peirlinck, Ph.D.](https://mpeirlinck.github.io/) | Delft University of Technology
- [W. Paul Segars, Ph.D.](https://radiology.duke.edu/profile/william-paul-segars) | Duke University
- [Mahmut Pekedis, Ph.D.](https://unisis.ege.edu.tr/researcher=mahmut.pekedis) | Ege University
- [Sandra Loerakker, Ph.D.](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/sandra-loerakker/) | Eindhoven University of Technology
- [Sebastien Kozerke, Ph.D.](https://ee.ethz.ch/the-department/people-a-z/person-detail.NjE2NDE=.TGlzdC8zMjc5LC0xNjUwNTg5ODIw.html) | ETH Zurich
- [George Dulikravich, Ph.D.](https://cec.fiu.edu/about/schools-departments/mechanical-materials-engineering/) | Florida International University
- [Denisa Martonová, Ph.D.](https://www.ltd.tf.fau.de/person/denisa-martonova/) | Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- [Harvard Medical School](https://www.childrenshospital.org/)
- [HLT Medical](https://hltmedical.com/)
- Incor
- [Declan O'Regan, Ph.D.](https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/declan.oregan) | Imperial College London
- [Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Ph.D.](https://www.me.iastate.edu/faculty-directory/profile/adarsh/) | Iowa State University
- [Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad](https://www.iith.ac.in/)
- [Inria](https://www.inria.fr/en)
- [Zachary Darby, M.D.](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart-vascular-institute/cardiovascular-research) | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- [Benyebka Bou-Saïd, Ph.D.](https://lamcos.insa-lyon.fr/fiche_personnelle.php?p=23_7&L=2&Numpers=11) | LaMCoS INSA Lyon
- [Jaclyn Cusumano, Pharm.D.](https://liu.edu/pharmacy/Academics2/Faculty/Faculty/C/Cusumano-Jaclyn?rn=Faculty&ru=/pharmacy/academic-programs/Faculty) | Long Island University
- [Nicolas Gallo, Ph.D.](https://www.liu.edu/~/link.aspx?_id=0316F382FACF4E1C9EB152A0ACAA9093&_z=z#98D98CDF-1549-478D-9C00-FEBA66A3D01D30) | Long Island University
- [Reda Nacif El Alaoui, Ph.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reda-n-elalaoui-ph-d-59808a135) | Long Island University
- [Ellen Roche, Ph.D.](https://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/etr@mit.edu) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- [Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization](https://www.ds.mpg.de/lfpb?/)
- [James F. Greenleaf, Ph.D.](https://mayoclinic.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/james-f-greenleaf/) | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Ultrasound Research Laboratory
- [Matthew W. Urban, Ph.D.](https://mayoclinic.elsevierpure.com/en/persons/matthew-w-urban/) | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Ultrasound Research Laboratory
- [Alireza Heidari, Ph.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alireza-heidari-65a6165a/) | McGill University
- [Rosaire Mongrain, Ph.D.](https://www.mcgill.ca/mecheng/rosaire-mongrain) | McGill University
- [National Research Council Canada](https://nrc.canada.ca/en)
- [John Rogers, Ph.D. ](https://rogersgroup.northwestern.edu/)| Northwestern University
- [Victorien Prot, Ph.D.](https://www.ntnu.edu/biomechanics) | Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- [Michael Audette, Ph.D.](https://www.odu.edu/directory/michel-audette) | Old Dominion University
- [Oxford Brookes University](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/)
- [Dongliang Zhao, Ph.D.](https://english.pku.edu.cn/) | Peking University
- [Emiliano Votta, Ph.D.](https://www.deib.polimi.it/eng/people/details/405046) | Politechnico di Milano
- [Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile](https://www.ing.uc.cl/)
- Daniel Hurtado, Ph.D.
- [Chi-Seung Lee, Ph.D.](https://sites.google.com/view/chrislab/) | Pusan National University Hospital
- [Seunghwan Song, M.D.](https://medicine.pusan.ac.kr/medicineeng/35660/subview.do?enc=Zm5jdDF8QEB8JTJGcG51UHJvZmwlMkZtZWRpY2luZWVuZyUyRjExNDglMkYxMTE3OCUyRmFydGNsVmlldy5kbyUzRmZpbmRUeXBlJTNEJTI2ZmluZFdvcmQlM0QlMjZwYWdlJTNEMiUyNg%3D%3D) | Pusan National University Hospital
- Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases
- [Claire Conway, Ph.D.](https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/research-and-innovation/research/research-centres-and-networks/tissue-engineering-research-group) | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- [Stephanie Reese, Ph.D.](https://www.ifam.rwth-aachen.de/cms/ifam/das-institut/team/~mwiyv/stefanie-reese/?allou=1&lidx=1) | RWTH Aachen University
- [Simula Research Laboratory](https://www.simula.no/)
- [Daniel Ennis, Ph.D.](https://profiles.stanford.edu/daniel-ennis) | Stanford University
- [Ellen Kuhl, Ph.D.](https://livingmatter.stanford.edu/) | Stanford University
- [Alison Marsden, Ph.D.](https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/alison-marsden) | Stanford University
- Daniel Bluestein, Ph.D. | Stony Brook University
- [Rami Haj-Ali, Ph.D.](https://en-engineering.tau.ac.il/profile/rami98) | Tel-Aviv University
- [Gil Marom, Ph.D.](https://en-engineering.tau.ac.il/profile/maromgil) | Tel-Aviv University
- [The American University in Cairo](https://www.aucegypt.edu/)
- [Tom Hund, Ph.D.](https://bme.osu.edu/people/hund.1) | The Ohio State University
- [Chung Hao Lee, Ph.D.](https://profiles.ouhsc.edu/display/211379) | The University of Oklahoma
- [Takahiro Aoyagi, Ph.D.](http://www.aoyagi.ee.e.titech.ac.jp/blog/dr-takahiro-aoyagi/) | Tokyo Institute of Technology
- [Francesco Capuano, Ph.D.](https://futur.upc.edu/FrancescoCapuano?locale=en) | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- [Philip Cardiff, Ph.D.](https://www.ucd.ie/) | University College Dublin
- [University College London](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/cardiovascular/research/department-childrens-cardiovascular-disease/centre-clinical-cardiovascular-engineering)
- [Ivan Costa, Ph.D. ](https://sigaa.unb.br/sigaa/public/docente/portal.jsf?siape=2216560)| University of Brasilia
- [Julius Guccione, Ph.D.](https://profiles.ucsf.edu/julius.guccione) | University of California, San Francisco
- [Neil Davies, Ph.D.](https://health.uct.ac.za/cardiothoracic-surgery/cardiovascular-research-unit-staff) | University of Cape Town
- [Thomas Franz, Ph.D.](https://health.uct.ac.za/biomedical-engineering/research/mechanobiology) | University of Cape Town
- [Xiaoyu Luo, Ph.D.](https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~xl/) | University of Glasgow
- [Philipp Kügler, Ph.D.](https://hohcampus.verw.uni-hohenheim.de/qisserver/a/cs.psv.frontend/person/view/123051) | University of Hohenheim
- Paul Iaizzo, Ph.D. | University of Minnesota, Visible Heart Laboratory
- [Timo Liimatainen, Ph.D.](https://www.oulu.fi/en/research-groups/oulu-medical-imaging-and-simulations-group-omias) | University of Oulu
- [Salvatore Pasta, Ph.D.](https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/p/salvatore.pasta) | University of Palermo
- [John C. Brigham, Ph.D.](https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/people/faculty/john-brigham/) | University of Pittsburgh
- [Wenbin Mao, Ph.D.](https://sites.google.com/view/wenbinmao-homepage) | University of South Florida
- [Caglar Ozturk, Ph.D.](https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65cfns/doctor-caglar-ozturk) | University of Southampton
- [Manuel Rausch, Ph.D.](https://www.ae.utexas.edu/people/faculty/faculty-directory/rausch) | University of Texas at Austin
- [Clark Meyer, Ph.D.](https://be.utdallas.edu/people/faculty/clark-meyer/) | University of Texas at Dallas
- [Gerrit Engelbrecht, M.D.](https://www.ufs.ac.za/health/) | University of the Free State
- [University of Ulsan](https://global.ulsan.ac.kr/en/Main.do)
- [Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering at Swansea University](https://www.swansea.ac.uk/science-and-engineering/research/zienkiewicz-institute-for-modelling-data-ai/)

(LSH) Industry

Information-gathering for the project is taking place in a pre-competitive manner – i.e., not device-specific, but disease-specific—so that product information and patent protection is assured. Companies are evaluating the model for applications in their areas of interest. Their suggestions for model refinement, new applications, technological implementation or contributions of model or test-validation data contribute to the pursuit of realistic simulations capable of reliably replicating clinically observed behavior.

**Current Project Members:**

- [4RealSim Services B.V.](https://www.4realsim.com/)
- [Abbott Laboratories](https://www.abbott.com/en-us/homepage)
- [Admedes Schuessler GmbH](https://www.admedes.com/en)
- Advisian
- [BioSerenity](https://bioserenity.com/)
- [Biotronik](https://www.biotronik.com/en-us)
- [Boston Scientific Corporation](https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-US/home.html)
- [CAPVIDIA](https://www.capvidia.com/)
- [Cognizant](https://www.cognizant.com/us/en)
- [Computational Life](https://www.computational-life.com/)
- [Device Analytics](https://deviceanalytics.com/)
- [Echobio](https://www.linkedin.com/company/echobio-llc)
- [Edwards Lifesciences](https://www.edwards.com/)
- [Engineering Systems, Inc. (ESi)](https://www.engsys.com/)
- [Exponent, Inc.](https://www.exponent.com/)
- [Front End Analytics](https://www.predictiveiq.com/)
- [Hewlett-Packard Enterprise](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html)
- [Infosys Limited](https://www.infosys.com/)
- [Insilicomed, Inc.](https://insilicomed.com/)
- [Intel](https://www.intel.com/)
- [Materialise](https://www.materialise.com/en)
- [Medinol](https://medinol.com/)
- [Medtronic, Inc.](https://www.medtronic.com/en-us/index.html)
- [MicroPort Cardiac Rhythm Management](https://microport.com/healthcare-professional/cardiac-rhythm-management-home-page)
- [Nanjing Saint Medical Technology Co., Ltd.](https://www.asnmed.com/)
- Neurotargeting
- Nuno Rebelo Associates LLC
- [Olympus Corporation](https://www.olympus-global.com/)
- [Optimal Device](https://optimaldevice.com/)
- [Pfizer](https://www.pfizer.com/)
- [Philips Research](https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/innovation)
- Prima Medical Technologies GmbH
- [Rescale](https://rescale.com/)
- [Stratasys](https://www.stratasys.com/)
- [Synopsys](https://www.synopsys.com/simpleware.html)
- [Tata Consultancy Services](https://www.tcs.com/what-we-do/industries/healthcare)
- [Terumo Interventional Systems Division](https://www.terumois.com/)
- [Thornton Tomasetti, Weidlinger Applied Science](https://www.thorntontomasetti.com/)
- [UberCloud](https://www.simr.com/)
- VPK
- [W.L. Gore](https://www.gore.com/)
- [zSpace, Inc.](https://www.zspace.com/)
- [Zygote Media Group](https://www.zygote.com/)

(LSH) Clinical

Clinical practitioner involvement in the project is critical to ensure a patient-centered focus on the development of viable technologies that will improve diagnoses and treatment plans. By collaborating with project participants, clinicians provide valued guidance in how best to use the power of simulation to diagnose and treat patient-specific conditions.

Clinicians monitor and evaluate the development of the model in a collaborative way as the project progresses over time. Their suggestions—based on actual patient experience, ideas about applications to specific disease states, and/or thoughts about model enhancement or refinement derived from clinical data—contribute to the pursuit of realistic simulations capable of reliably replicating observed behavior.

**Current Project Members:**

- [Jacques Kpodonu, M.D.](https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~emmanuel/research/projects/CAIN/) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- [David Hoganson, M.D.](https://www.childrenshospital.org/providers/david-hoganson) | Boston Children's Hospital
- [Volkmar Falk, M.D.](https://www.dhzc.charite.de/en/team/falk/) | Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin
- [Bernard Bulwer, M.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernard-e-bulwer-m-d-msc-fase-6096ab85) | Echo Stethoscope Academy Project
- Fuwai Hospital
- [Robert Persson, M.D](https://www.helse-bergen.no/en/). | Haukeland University Hospital
- [Andreas Valeur, M.D.](https://www.helse-bergen.no/) | Haukeland University Hospital
- [Elazer Edelman, M.D., Ph.D.](https://edelmanlab.mit.edu/elazer-edelman/) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- [National Heart Centre Singapore](https://www.nhcs.com.sg/)
- [Marcello Gomide, M.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcello-gomide-65b78111) | National Institute of Cardiology
- [James C. Perry, M.D.](https://www.rchsd.org/find-a-doctor/) | Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
- [Elaine Tseng, M.D.](https://www.va.gov/san-francisco-health-care/staff-profiles/elaine-tseng/) | San Francisco VA Medical Center
- [Shanghai Children's Medical Center](https://www.shchildren.com.cn/)
- [Yun Xie, M.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yun-xie-186b046b?originalSubdomain=cn) | Shanghai Ruijin Hospital
- Robert Schwengel, M.D., FACC | Southcoast Physicians Group
- [The German Heart Competence Center at Tübingen](http://www.dhz-tuebingen.de/)
- [Liviu Klein, M.D., M.S.](https://www.ucsfhealth.org/providers/liviu-klein) | University of California, San Francisco
- [Sophie Gu, M.D.](https://www.cardiovascular.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-sophie-gu) | University of Cambridge
- [Michael Moulton, M.D.](https://www.unmc.edu/surgery/divisions/ct/faculty/moulton.html) | University of Nebraska Medical Center
- [Sergey Prasolov, M.D.](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergey-prasolov-7878b54b/)

(LSH) Regulatory

Perhaps the greatest challenge for any medical regulatory agency is accessing the safety of new devices without relying on costly and invasive human testing. Regulatory science stakeholders monitor and evaluate the development of the model in a collaborative way as the project progresses over time. Their participation is valuable in assessing the validity of the heart model for its mechanical and material properties, in developing test protocols, and in creating strategies for validation of the heart model for specific contexts of use.

**Current Project Members:**

- [U.S. Food and Drug Administration](https://www.fda.gov/)
- [Medical Device Innovation Consortium](https://mdic.org/)

(LSH) The Living Heart Project

 A translational research initiative to revolutionize cardiovascular science through realistic simulation.

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