It is heart month and a member of the The Eck Institute for Global Health is looking at the heart from the inside out. EIGH PhD Fellow Ling Sun is looking at the mechanobiological elucidation of heart valve disease. "I intend to examine the effects of normal and abnormal blood fluid forces on the biology of aortic valve leaflets in order to determine the molecules potentially involved in the transduction of abnormal hemodynamic forces into a pathological response."
So while the rest of us are eating chocolate out of a cardboard heart and donning our red dresses in honor of heart month, Ling is working away under Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering professor Philippe Sucosky to help address that chocolate we once consumed.
Join members of the EIGH in supporting the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Heart Truth campaign through the month of February. Wear your red from the Red Dress Collection!
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