Professor Emilia Entcheva Member

Bethesda, Maryland , USA  •  IEEE Washington Section
Contact
  • Phone
    +1 202 994 7807 (Work)
    +16312204444 (Cell)
    +16312204444 (Home)
  • Mailing Address
    Emilia Entcheva
    5810 Madaket Rd, Bethesda, Maryland 20816-3201 USA (Home)
    Emilia Entcheva
    800 22nd St NW Ste 5000, Washington, District Of Columbia 20052-0066 USA (Work)
Biography
Professor Emilia Entcheva directs the Cardiac Optogenetics and Optical Imaging Laboratory at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University. Her research group combines biophotonics tools with human stem-cell-derived cardiomyocyte technology and gene editing approaches to aid the advancement of personalized medicine. The lab played a key role in bringing optogenetic approaches to the cardiac field and validating their use experimentally and computationally. Professor Entcheva is an AIMBE Fellow and her work is supported by the NSF and NIH.
Interests
Biomedical optical imaging
Biomedical engineering
Biomedical image processing
Cardiac tissue
Electrophysiology
Modeling
Molecular biophysics
Experience
Dean/Professor/Instructor
George Washington Univ
Education
University of Memphis
Doctor of Philosophy
Biological and Medical Sciences , 1998