Natalia Trayanova
Alma materBulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia University
AwardsFellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering 2017

Fellow of the American Heart Association 2010
Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society 2010

Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society 2008
Scientific career
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

University of Oxford
Tulane University

Duke University

Natalia Trayanova FAHA FHRS 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]

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]

References

  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". Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  3. 1 2 "Natalia Trayanova, PhD | Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering". Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  4. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award#9709754 - Mathematical Sciences/GIG: Computational Science in Biomedical Systems". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  5. 1 2 3 4 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)
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ Johns Hopkins University (2015-02-10), Natalia Trayanova - Computational Simulations of the Heart, retrieved 2018-06-11
  8. ↑ "Trayanova recognized by AHA | Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering". Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  9. ↑ "Natalia A. Trayanova, M.S., Ph.D." Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  10. 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. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  11. ↑ "MII Award Projects | Tedco". tedco.md. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  12. ↑ "WIT 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees". Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  13. ↑ "Heart Rhythm Society 2019 Award Winners". Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  14. ↑ "National Academy of Inventors Announces 2019 Fellows". Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  15. ↑ "Team | CardioSolv". cardiosolv.com. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
  16. ↑ TEDx Talks (2017-07-18), Your Personal Virtual Heart | Natalia Trayanova | TEDxJHU, retrieved 2018-06-11
  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.
  20. ↑ "Natalia Trayanova: Using a Personalized, Virtual Heart to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death". www.amazingthingspodcast.com. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
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