Mahesh Thirunavukkarasu is an Assistant Professor of Surgery
at the Department of Surgery, Molecular Cardiology and Angiogenesis Laboratory,
University of Connecticut Health Center. He received his B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry
from the University of Madras and his M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemistry
from Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar. He finished his Postdoctoral training
at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Dr. Thirunavukkarasu, focuses on cardiac repair and regeneration of aging and diabetic hearts. He has more than 55 publications in peer reviewed journal.
Nilanjana Maulik is a Professor of Molecular Cardiology and
heading the Angiogenesis Laboratory at the Department of Surgery, UConn Health,
Farmington, Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in December
1990 from Calcutta University, India. After completing her Ph.D., she joined
the Department of Surgery at UConn Health as a research fellow and continued as
a faculty where now she serves as a Tenured Professor. She is also a member of
several prestigious societies, such as FASEB, AHA, ISHR, American College of
Nutrition (ACN), and International College of Angiology (ICA). She was a member
of the Myocardial Ischemia Metabolism (MIM) study section of NIH for the last 6
years and of the NHLBI Program Project Review Committee. Presently, she serves
as a reviewer of several special emphasis panel study sections of NIH. She is
also a reviewer of the AHA Grant review process. She is on several Editorial
boards of major cardiovascular journals. She is an associate editor of the Molecular
Cellular Biochemistry journal. She is a recipient of several prestigious awards
including the Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Connecticut
Health Center. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanism of myocardial
angiogenesis in the diseased/infarcted heart, ischemia/reperfusion injury,
apoptosis, and the development of cardioprotective strategies which include
gene, stem cell and engineered microvesicle therapy.Dr Maulik has more than 200 manuscripts
