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Dr. Nandan Kumar Mondal, MS, MPhil, Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support at Baylor College of Medicine, has been honored with the prestigious 2024 AHA Innovative Research Award, a testament to his groundbreaking work in the field.
This award provides financial support of $200,000 over a two-year period to conduct the proposed study, titled “MasSpec Pen for real-time non-invasive assessment of ischemic injury in human hearts for DCD Transplantation.” Dr. Mondal served as the Principal Investigator in the research study.
The AHA Innovative Research Award supports high-impact pioneering research that could lead to critical discoveries or major advancements in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular research. In this research initiative, Dr. Mondal, along with Drs. Livia Eberlin and Kenneth Liao, plans to conduct basic science research on human donor hearts using MSPen technology to assess myocardial injury and monitor donor quality in real-time to expand the donor pool.
In 2018, Dr. Mondal was recruited to join the faculty of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery in Baylor College of Medicine to continue his research in the field of heart failure, heart transplantation and circulatory support.
He completed Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Cancer Cytogenetics in 2007 from the University of Burdwan, India. After successfully completing many research projects in India for 4 years, Dr. Mondal came to University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore in 2012.
In 2015, Dr. Mondal moved to the University of Louisville for research activities at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, University of Louisville.
