Cardiologic Therapies

Researchers Create Functioning Heart Cells In The Lab

Published in Blood Weekly, August 16th, 2001

A high school track star suddenly collapses during practice - his heartbeat inexplicably thrown into quivering, life-robbing chaos. But how and why did his heart suddenly produce the electrical storm of deadly irregular beats known as ventricular fibrillation, leading to sudden death'

This is the kind of mystery that could be unraveled in the Cellular Therapy Center at the Atlanta, Georgia, Veteran's Administration Medical Center (VAMC). There, Emory University researcher Samuel Dudley, Jr., MD, PhD, and his research team, which includes Alice Huang, PhD, and Mark Leimbach, MD, are working to unlock intracellular secrets of heart function. They are the only...

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