News
03/14/2024
Congratulations to Nnaoma Agwu for achieving second place at the UCI 2024 Grad Slam Competition.
12/13/2023
Dr. Kheradvar Named a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography.
12/08/2023
Dr. Kheradvar delivers a keynote speech on Fluid dynamics of the heart and heart failure at the CSI FOCUS D-HF 2023.
10/15/2023
Congratulations to Dr. Yasaman Farsiani for starting a new position as a Senior Engineer at the Edwards Lifesciences.
09/21/2023
NIH Funds UC Irvine Project to Measure the Severity of Heart Valve Backflow.
05/03/2023
Congratulations to Dr. Yasaman Farsiani who received the 2023 Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Council Travel Grant to attend ASE 2023!
03/28/2023
Congratulations to Dr. Gianni Pedrizzetti who will deliver the 2023 Kalmanson lecture at ASE 2023!
03/24/2023
Prof. Kheradvar delivers an invited seminar at the Ri.Med Foundation at Palermo, Italy.
12/12/2022
Prof. Kheradvar delivers an invited seminar at the Heart Center Hamburg, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf.
12/08/2022
Prof. Kheradvar attends CSI Focus D-HF in Frankfurt, Germany as an invited faculty.
12/06/2022
Congratulations to Nnaoma Agwu for successfully defending his Ph.D. Candidacy Exam.
12/06/2022
Prof. Kheradvar participates in a panel discussion on Transitions to Small Business Development at the NIH 2022 Proof of Concept Annual Meeting.
09/26/2022
Congratulations to PhD students Nnaoma Agwu and Fernando Trinidad, who were both selected to receive a travel award to participate in the AIMBE Public Policy Institute on October 24-25, 2022 in Washington, DC.
06/02/2022
Nnaoma Agwu received the highly prestigious NIH T32 CARE Training Fellowship to continue his doctoral project on growth-accommodating transcatheter pulmonary valve.
03/01/2022
Congratulations to Fernando Trinidad for acceptance to UCI BME program as a Ph.D student.
02/25/2022
KLAB received a new NIH award to non-invasively study Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.
02/09/2022
Congratulations to Ninaz Valisharifabad for being featured on Samueli School of Engineering website.
08/17/2021
KLAB received a new R21 award from NICHD to develop, implant, and study the performance of a novel origami-based transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) system that accommodates the child’s growth.
07/01/2021
Congratulations to Dr. Ahmed ElSaid for starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico.
05/17/2021
KLAB received a new NSF award to study the synergistic interaction between hemodynamics and genetics that form the heart.
02/15/2021
Prof. Kheradvar has been elected to the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
01/22/2021
AI-based Platform Accurately Analyzes MRIs of Children with Heart Defects.
12/10/2020
Congratulations to Elizabeth (Lisa) Katsnelson for receiving the 2nd Poster Award from the Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC by START (Students Transforming and Advancing Research Together) on her project: A Microscopy Approach to Quantitate Mitochondrial Transplantation's Success.
10/01/2020
Congratulations to Dr. Paria Ali Pour for starting a lecturer position at the UCLA Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics.
08/27/2020
UCI Engineers Develop a New AI-based Method for Analyzing Echocardiograms.
06/28/2020
Joseph Hariz was selected for the Creativity & Innovation Scholarship. Congratulations to Joseph!
05/27/2020
Paria Ali Pour successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Ali Pour!
05/18/2020
Joseph Hariz received the Chancellor’s award of distinction for the recognition of exceptional academic achievement and a commitment to cutting edge research, leadership, and service to UCI. Congratulations to Joseph!
03/24/2020
The paper published by Paria Ali Pour et al. on mitochondrial transplantation is featured on Fight Aging.
03/23/2020
UCI Team Demonstrates Ability to Supercharge Cells with Mitochondrial Transplantation.
12/19/2019
Prof. Kheradvar has been selected as a Distinguished Chair in Health Sciences by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
12/18/2019
Prof. Kheradvar was designated as a Beall Applied Innovation’s inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellow.
11/01/2019
KLAB received the 2020 American Heart Association/Amazon Web Services for Data grant to create an AI-based software platform that can automatically and effectively analyze cardiac MRIs of children with congenital heart disease. The project is featured on the UCI Samueli School of Engineering.
10/01/2019
Arghavan Arafati is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Congratulations to Dr. Arafati!
09/03/2019
UCI HSSoE featured the new book: "Principles of Heart Valve Engineering" led by Prof. Kheradvar.
08/29/2019
The very first comprehensive reference book on Heart Valve Engineering: "Principles of Heart Valve Engineering" has been published in 414 pages by Elsevier. Prof. Kheradvar led the effort along with a group of internationally known researchers in the field from more than 15 institutions, including bioengineers and cardiologists.
11/07/2018
New Study Examines the Effect of Blood Flow Leakage after Transcatheter Heart Valve Replacement.
10/25/2018
NIH Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Features KLAB's FoldaValve.
09/07/2018
Prof. Kheradvar delivers a special invited lecture on diagnostic and prognostic significance of diastolic vortex at the 66th annual scientific session of the Japanese College of Cardiology.
09/04/2018
KLAB's AValve TMVR/TTVR technology has been selected for TCT 2018 shark tank competition and will be presented for the first time at TCT2018.
08/08/2018
Ramses Trigo has been awarded the highly prestigious Mexico CONACYT fellowship!
07/11/2018
Michael R. Avendi, KLAB alumnus postdoctoral scholar, received a prestigious award ($100,000) from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on passenger screening algorithm challenge using Artificial intelligence.
06/27/2018
Dr. Kheradvar presents FoldaValve at TVT2018.
05/31/2018
Paria Ali Pour received the highly prestigious NIH T32 CARE Training Fellowship to continue her doctoral project on mitochondrial transplantation.
05/19/2018
Congratulations to Arghavan Arafati and #Echosol team from #KLAB for winning the 4th place at the @UCICove TechSurge Competition!
05/11/2018
KLAB received a UCI Applied Innovation's POP grant to complete the Feasibility Studies of a Bio-Inspired Transcatheter Atrioventricular (Mitral and Tricuspid) Valve Technology in Sheep
01/19/2018
Daryl Chau Nguyen is one of the two UCI undergraduate students who are selected by the University of California Office of the President to present their work at 2018 undergraduate research ambassadors showcase.
01/18/2018
Arghavan Arafati is named as one of the four UC Irvine's Public Impact Distinguished Fellows for 2018.
11/13/2017
Prof. Kheradvar has been featured on UCI's Applied Innovation website.
08/21/2017
Dr. Elliott Groves is now the Director of Structural Heart Interventions at University of Illinois at Chicago. Congratulations to Dr. Groves!
06/14/2017
Prof. Kheradvar is promoted to the rank of Full Professor.
06/06/2017
Daryl Chau Nguyen has been selected by the Edwards Lifesciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (E-SURP) Selection Committee as an E-SURP Fellow at UCI for summer 2017 to complete his research project at KLAB.
06/01/2017
Sam Zuke is now an Advanced Manufacturing Engineer I at Medtronic. Congratulations to Sam!
05/25/2017
Prof. Kheradvar is appointed as an Associate Editor to the Annals of Biomedical Engineering
01/19/2017
Prof. Kheradvar received an Alexander von Humboldt's Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. More information can be found here.
09/09/2016
Paria Ali Pour has been selected as one of the four recipients of the 2016-2017 Henry Samueli School of Engineering Pathway to the PhD Fellowship.
07/01/2016
Ahmad Falahatpisheh is now a Principal Scientist at Acutus Medical, Inc. Congratulations to Dr. Falahatpisheh!
07/01/2016
KLAB received a new Grant-in-Aid award from American Heart Association to study the crimp-induced calcification in transcatheter heart valves
06/23/2016
KLAB received a new R21 from NIH-NIBIB to study the use of intravascular ultrasound in positioning transcatheter aortic valve.
04/21/2016
Paria Ali Pour has been awarded the prestigious HSSoE Undergraduate Research Fellowship during the Spring 2016 to work on KLAB's mitochondria project.
02/19/2016
Hamed Alavi has been featured on UCI Samueli School of Engineering website.
02/19/2016
Dr. Kheradvar has been awarded an Innovative Research Grant (IRG) from the American Heart Association to improve guiding transcatheter aortic valve.
12/13/2015
Michael Avendi is now a Senior Systems Engineer, R&D at Halyard Health. Congratulations to Dr. Avendi!
12/13/2015
Hamed Alavi has been awarded the prestigious American Heart Association postdoctoral Fellowship to work on Tissue Engineered Heart Valve with a Non-Degradable Scaffold.
10/10/2015
Sci-Fi Inspired: Check out an article on our Hybrid Heart Valve Technology from UCI Dean's Report
7/01/2015
KLAB received a new award from University of California Center for Accelerated Innovation to proceed development of a self-regenerative hybrid heart valve.
06/07/2015
Our hybrid heart valve technology has been featured in a news release by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons
02/18/2015
Dr. Kheradvar is featured on Vivitro Labs. Spring 2015 Newsletter.
01/06/2015
Elliott Groves, is now a board-certified Cardiologist; Congratulations to Dr. Groves.
07/11/2014
Ahmad Falahatpisheh has been awarded the prestigious American Heart Association postdoctoral Fellowship to work on kinetic energy dissipation inside the right heart of the patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot. This is the second time that Dr. Falahatpisheh has received a grant from American Heart Association. He was previously awarded a pre-doctoral award on tetralogy of Fallot in 2012.
06/25/2014
Yijiao Wang has been recommended by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Faculty Advisory Board as a UROP Fellow at UCI for the 2014-2015 academic year to work on her research project at KLAB.
06/03/2014
Avinash Chinchali has been selected by the Edwards Lifesciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (E-SURP) Selection Committee as an E-SURP Fellow at UCI for summer 2014 to complete his research project at KLAB.
06/03/2014
Elliott Groves, is accepted to be a fellow of Interventional Cardiology at the Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, CA starting in July 2015.
05/12/2014
S. Reed Plimpton has been awarded the prestigious American Heart Association Medical Student Research Award to work on Development and Testing of a Bio-Prosthetic Mitral Valve with Dynamic Annulus.
03/06/2014
Hamed Alavi successfully defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Alavi.
01/15/2014
KLAB has been awarded a grant from the Children Heart foundation to further develop our Hybrid Tissue-engineered Heart Valve Technology.
12/17/2013
KLAB has been awarded the UCI Unmet Clinical Needs in Cardiovascular Medicine Seed Grant to develop a Bioinspired Transcatheter Mitral Valve Technology
11/25/2013
Ahmad Falahatpisheh successfully defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations to Dr. Falahatpisheh.
11/25/2013
KLAB has been awarded an American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid to assess of the right ventricular flow in patients with RV dysfunction.
09/03/2013
We are honored to receive a state-of-the-art portable incubator as a gift from Micro Q Technologies. This portable incubator will be used as an essential device for our heart valve tissue engineering projects.
07/23/2013
KLAB has been awarded the 2013 ICTS Translational Device Award to further advance the development of our patient-specific hybrid heart valve.
05/10/2013
ValveStrong team from KLAB received the second place in the 2013 Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of Business. In addition ValveStrong received the TechPortal Orange Residency Award and the Best Concept Paper, Campus Wide Division. ValveStrong develops and commercializes the first patient-specific self-regenerative heart valve. More information about the 2013 Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of Business can be found here.
04/24/2013
Hamed Alavi has been awarded a seed grant from the Edwards Lifesciences to continue his research on development and testing of our hybrid tissue engineered heart valve at KLAB.
04/17/2013
Dr. Kheradvar elected as a fellow of the American Heart Association. More information can be found here.
Ahmad Falahatpisheh has been awarded the prestigious American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship to work on modeling the flow inside the right heart of patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot. More information can be found here.
09/07/2012
KLAB in collaboration with GEMAT has been selected again for funding under the 2012 California-Catalonia Program for Engineering Innovation. This award is for Development of a biocompatible tissue engineered heart valve leaflet using stem cells.
06/28/2012
Brandon Dueitt has been awarded the prestigious Edwards Lifesciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (E-SURP) for the second time to work on a new research project at KLAB during the summer 2012.
04/01/2012
KLAB's work on tissue-engineering of membranes is featured on the cover of the April 2012 issue of Tissue Engineering Journal Part C: Methods.
02/24/2012
A new book titled: "Vortex Formation in the Cardiovascular System" co-authored by Dr. Kheradvar and Dr. Pedrizzetti is recently published by Springer Cardiology. More information about the book can be found on the publisher's website.
02/12/2012
KLAB's work on characterization of transmitral vortex in Diastolic dysfunction patients is featured on cover of the Journal of American Society of Echocardiography issue of February 2012.
11/24/2011
Dr. Kheradvar received a Career Development Award from Leducq Foundation in Paris, France. This grant will advance KLAB's efforts on modeling the flow through the right heart after repair of Tetralogy of Fallot.
09/21/2011
Ahmad Falahatpisheh's work on Bioprosthetic heart valves was featured on Tecplot website
09/07/2011
KLAB in collaboration with GEMAT has been selected for funding under the 2011 California-Catalonia Program for Engineering Innovation. This award is for Development of a Biocompatible Tissue Engineered Heart Valve Leaflet.
06/21/2011
KLAB graduate students -Ahmad Falahatpisheh and Hamed Alavi- along with -Rosaysela Santos- the graduate student in Calof Lab have been awarded the CCBS Opportunity Award for Computational reconstruction of the heart in a mouse model of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.
06/17/2011
KLAB has been selected by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation to receive the 2011 Coulter Translational Research Award (CTRA) to advance the percutaneous aortic valve technology.
06/07/2011
Leila Nazemi has been recommended by the Summer Undgraduate Research Program (SURP)/Undergraduate Research Opportunties Program (UROP) Faculty Advisory Board as an SURP Fellow at UCI for summer 2011 to complete her research project at KLAB.
06/06/2011
Sara Hariri has been appointed by the Interdisciplinary Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (ID-SURE) committee as an E-SURP Fellow at UCI for summer 2011 to complete her research project at KLAB.
06/01/2011
Ahmad Falahatpisheh has been awarded a Cardiovascular Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year from the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology to continue his research project at KLAB.
05/24/2011
Brandon Dueitt has been awarded the prestigious Edwards Lifesciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program (E-SURP) to complete his research project at KLAB during the summer 2011.
05/16/2011
KLAB has been awarded the 2011 ICTS Pilot Grant to further advance the percutaneous aortic valve technology.