Gideon Koren
Specialty: Cardiovascular medicine, sudden cardiac death, cardiac excitation
Phone: 401.444.4629
Email: Gideon_Koren@Brown.edu
Administrative contact: Mary-Ann Machado 401.444.0392
Research interests:
Gideon Koren, MD, recently joined the faculty at Rhode Island Hospital to establish the new Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) in the Cardiology Division. CVRC investigators will investigate the molecular mechanisms of rhythm disorders of the heart (cardiac arrhythmias), heart enlargement (hypertrophy) and heart failure. The ultimate goal is to devise mechanism-based, new therapeutic strategies. Through an inter-disciplinary effort, CVRC investigators will apply a broad spectrum of experimental approaches to identify changes in cardiac excitation and contraction, cell signaling and gene regulation that contribute to cardiac disease. CVRC facilities will include state-of-the-art laboratories for studies in single cells and in genetically modified animal models using cellular electrophysiology and optical mapping, heart cell physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genomics, and proteomics. An important goal of the CVRC is to enhance and promote education and training in molecular cardiology and life sciences.
