Farokh Irani, BS

My work dealt with the isolation and culturing of adult rat cardiac cells. While aniostropic, confluent cultures have been made using neonatal cardiomyocytes, this has not been done with adult cells. Using various digestion and plating techniques, including microfabriaction approaches, I worked to engineer confluent anisotropic cultures of adult cells . These would be used as an in-vitro model for the study of adult cardiac electrophysiology.

farokh.irani@duke.edu