Modeling Arrhythmias Using hPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes and Tracking Their Excitability

Vincenzo Macri, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at STEMCELL Technologies, developing products to support cardiomyocyte stem cell research. Dr. Macri completed his PhD in Physiology from the University of British Columbia. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His areas of study included human genetics, cardiac arrhythmias, cellular electrophysiology and cardiomyocyte stem cell biology.

Stacie Chvatal, PhD, is a Senior Application Scientist at Axion BioSystems and plays a leading role in developing Axion’s CiPA Analysis Tool to streamline MEA cardiac analysis. Dr. Chvatal completed her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. She then continued her research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech. Her research was in neural control movement in healthy and impaired nervous systems of humans and animals.