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Garg Lab Staff
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Vidu Garg, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Director of Translational Research Principal Investigator CV and Publications Dr. Garg received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, completed his residency in pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, followed by clinical and research fellowships in pediatric cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
As director of Translational Research, Dr. Garg focuses on enhancing the partnership between clinicians and scientists in their shared quest for improving the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pediatric cardiac and vascular disease. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Garg’s personal research focus is to clarify the genetics of congenital heart disease and to identify the molecular pathways regulating normal cardiac development.
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Chaitali Misra, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow Chaitali received her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in India from the Molecular and Human Genetics Division after completing her Master’s Degree in Biotechnology. As a Graduate student, her research area was to examine the role of polymorphic variants in the risk of leukoplakia and oral cancer. The main focus of her postdoctoral study will be genetic regulation of cardiac development using mouse models.
The aim of the study is to understand the mechanisms and cell types through which GATA4 and TBX5 function in cardiac septation
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Sara Koenig, BA
Research Assistant Sara received her BA in biology with a minor in chemistry from Ohio Wesleyan University in June 2009. As an undergraduate student, she worked in a molecular genetics lab that focused on nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) as a type of post-transcriptional regulation using S. pombe as a model system.
As a research assistant in Dr. Vidu Garg’s laboratory in the Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, she is currently involved in human genetic studies using array comparative genomic hybridization to identify novel copy number variations in children with cardiac malformations.
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Chetan Hans, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Chetan P. Hans completed his Ph.D. degree from The Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, followed by postdoctoral fellowship at LSU Health Science Center in New Orleans. His major research interests are adult cardiovascular disease primarily atherosclerosis, cardiac hypertrophy and aortic valve calcification.
Currently, his project focuses on the role of NOTCH-1 in the development of aortic valve calcification using in vitro cell culture system and various mouse models. He is also working on the interactions between TIMP-2 (endogenous inhibitor of MMPs) and PARP-1 and effect of such interactions on the development of cardiac hypertrophy and chamber dilatation.
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Nianyuan (Hannah) Huang, BS
Research Assistant
Hannah received her B.S. in biology from Shaanxi Normal University in China. After moving to the United States, she worked as a Research Assistant in the laboratory of Dr. William Lynch in the Department of Microbiology/Immunology at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy.
Her research was focused on investigating virus-induced neurodegeneration and involved performing brain histology and immunohistochemistry.
Continuing to expand her research skills, Hannah moved to Columbus, Ohio where she worked as a Research Assistant in the laboratory of Dr. Tushar Patel at Ohio State University Medical Center. The laboratory focused on liver epithelial cell biology, with an emphasis on the role and regulation of cytokines and RNA genes in liver and biliary tract cancers. Most recently, Hannah is employed as a Research Assistant in Dr. Vidu Garg’s laboratory in the Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital. Her research is currently involved in studying mouse models of congenital heart defects and understanding the molecular pathways regulating normal heart development. |
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Kevin Bosse, PhD |
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Sheng-Wei Chang, BA |
Former Lab Members
Postdoctoral fellows
- Asha Acharya, PhD – Instructor, Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern
- Meenakshi Maitra, PhD – Postdoctoral fellow, UT Southwestern
- Ashleigh Richards, MD – Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology, UT Southwestern
- Nita Sachan PhD - Senior Research Analyst, Indian School of Business
- Caryn Rothrock, PhD – Field Scientist, Whatman-GE
Research Assistants
- Hubert Pan – medical student at University of California, San Diego
- Haley Nichols – physician assistant student at University of North Texas Health Science Center
- Amanda Krysiak – dental student at Baylor College of Dentistry
- Marie Schluterman – graduate student at UT Southwestern
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700 Children's Drive Columbus, Ohio 43205 614.722.2000